{"id":19280,"date":"2026-02-10T08:27:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T06:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/?p=19280"},"modified":"2026-02-10T10:01:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T08:01:25","slug":"cecile-helle-a-avignon-il-faut-etre-courageux-pour-etre-maire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/2026\/02\/10\/cecile-helle-a-avignon-il-faut-etre-courageux-pour-etre-maire\/","title":{"rendered":"C\u00e9cile Helle \u00e0 Avignon&nbsp;: \u00ab&nbsp;Il faut \u00eatre courageux pour \u00eatre maire&nbsp;\u00bb"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"paragraph\">\n<p>Dans un mois et demi, C\u00e9cile Helle aura rendu son mandat de maire et a assur\u00e9 mettre un terme \u00e0 sa vie politique. <i>\u00ab<\/i><i>\u00a0<\/i><i>J\u2019en suis \u00e0 presque 30 ans de mandats \u00e9lectifs sans discontinuer<\/i>\u00a0\u00bb, relate la premi\u00e8re magistrate (PS), au moment de recevoir, ce lundi matin \u00e0 l\u2019h\u00f4tel de ville, la m\u00e9daille du S\u00e9nat. D\u00e9put\u00e9e puis conseill\u00e8re r\u00e9gionale et enfin maire depuis 2014, C\u00e9cile Helle consid\u00e8re qu\u2019\u00eatre \u00ab<i>\u00a0<\/i><i>maire, c\u2019est le plus beau des mandats<\/i>\u00a0\u00bb. Et \u00ab\u00a0<i>il faut \u00eatre courageux pour l\u2019\u00eatre<\/i>\u00a0\u00bb, soutient-elle, soulignant \u00ab\u00a0<i>la force et l\u2019exigence<\/i><i>\u00a0<\/i>\u00bb que le r\u00f4le n\u00e9cessite.<\/p>\n<p>Au moment de recevoir sa m\u00e9daille, C\u00e9cile Helle y voit \u00ab<i>\u00a0<\/i><i>la reconnaissance de l\u2019action des maires en g\u00e9n\u00e9ral<\/i><i>\u00a0<\/i>\u00bb mais adresse plusieurs alertes en ce sens, comme \u00ab<i>\u00a0<\/i><i>la fragilisation de l\u2019autonomie financi\u00e8re des communes, il n\u2019y a rien de plus difficile de ne pas mener \u00e0 bien un projet \u00e0 cause d\u2019un probl\u00e8me financier<\/i>\u00a0\u00bb mais aussi la \u00ab\u00a0<i>mesure et la raison<\/i>\u00a0\u00bb parfois dure \u00e0 trouver \u00ab\u00a0<i>dans la relation avec les citoyens ou les r\u00e9seaux sociaux<\/i><i>\u00a0<\/i>\u00bb. Bref, \u00eatre maire \u00ab\u00a0<i>ce n\u2019est pas un long fleuve tranquille<\/i><i>\u00a0<\/i>\u00bb.<\/p>\n<p>D\u2019o\u00f9 \u00ab<i>\u00a0<\/i><i>l\u2019\u00e9motion<\/i><i>\u00a0<\/i>\u00bb de se voir distinguer par cette distinction du S\u00e9nat, au cours d\u2019une c\u00e9r\u00e9monie \u00e0 laquelle C\u00e9cile Helle avait convi\u00e9 ses parents mais aussi ses proches collaborateurs (cabinet, direction des services) et \u00e9lus (le premier adjoint Claude Nahoum, David Fournier qu\u2019elle soutient) ou repr\u00e9sentants des autres collectivit\u00e9s (seul Michel Bissi\u00e8re pour la R\u00e9gion \u00e9tait pr\u00e9sent). \u00ab\u00a0<i>Il \u00e9tait important de reconna\u00eetre l\u2019aboutissement d\u2019un engagement public et politique de nombreuses ann\u00e9es, d\u2019une personne qui, avec son \u00e9quipe, a marqu\u00e9 l\u2019histoire d\u2019Avignon<\/i>\u00a0\u00bb, salue le s\u00e9nateur Lucien Stanzione (PS), aux c\u00f4t\u00e9s de ses deux autres homologues vauclusiens, Jean-Baptiste Blanc (LR) et Alain Milon (LR). Et, en s\u2019adressant aux parents de C\u00e9cile Helle, \u00ab\u00a0<i>votre fille est tr\u00e8s m\u00e9ritante, elle peut passer la t\u00eate haute dans les rues<\/i>\u00a0\u00bb.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dans un mois et demi, C&eacute;cile Helle aura rendu son mandat de maire et a assur&eacute; mettre un terme &agrave; sa vie politique. &laquo;&nbsp;J&rsquo;en suis &agrave; presque 30 ans de mandats &eacute;lectifs sans discontinuer&nbsp;&raquo;, &#8230;","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19281,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[330],"tags":[495,174,190,3176,1920,171],"news-destination":[],"news-source":[475],"is_homepage":[],"ta_other":[],"class_list":["post-19280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politique","tag-495","tag-avignon","tag-cecile-helle","tag-lucien-stanzione","tag-senat","tag-vaucluse","news-source-website"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19282,"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19280\/revisions\/19282"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19280"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=19280"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=19280"},{"taxonomy":"is_homepage","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/is_homepage?post=19280"},{"taxonomy":"ta_other","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ta_other?post=19280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}