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Faced with an increase in attacks on mayors, more and more people are discouraged and decide to resign. Three years from the next municipal elections, the associations of mayors are already worried about a lack of candidates.
It is the image of a bruised, haggard mayor, in front of his burnt house, on March 22. The photo sparked THEme in the National Assembly, in the European Parliament and in the small towns of France. The mayor (DG) of Cénac (Gironde), Catherine Veyssy, was very shocked by the resignation of the mayor of Saint-Brevin-les-Pins (Loire-Atlantique). On the morning of Friday May 12, she returned her tricolor scarf to Emmanuel Macron, as a symbol. “It upset me. Resignation of mayor for a difficulty in exercising his mission, it is really the failure of the Republic”he said.
40 elected officials per month have resigned on average since 2020
Since 2020, 1,293 mayors have resigned, or around 40 elected per month. Some cling on out of passion and dedication. Last year, the mayor (SE) of Janvry (Essonne), Christian Schoettl, was violently threatened. “There is a gentleman with a chainsaw who proposed to me by the prophet to cut off my head, because I stopped a wild rodeo with my first assistant”, he says. After another attack, his wife had a camera installed in his car. In Carquefou (Loire-Atlantique), the mayor has been the victim of moral harassment for seven years.
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