“I will soon be 70 years old, and it is time to pass the torch to a new generation, full of the same passion that I have always had for Amiens,” said the UDI mayor of the city since 2017 in a press release.
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Brigitte Fouré, UDI mayor of Amiens since 2014, announced Monday October 7 that she was ending her mandate as mayor to hand over to Hubert de Jenlis, her first deputy. This decision comes less than two years before the 2026 municipal elections. “I will soon be 70 years old, and it is time to pass the torch to a new generation, full of the same passion that I have always had for Amiens”she said in a press release.
“I have decided to entrust the future of our city to Hubert de Jenlis” And “I will therefore propose his name to an extraordinary municipal council which will meet very soon in order to adopt this decision”, she added. Brigitte Fouré explains that she remains a municipal councilor, 2nd vice-president of Amiens metropolis and first vice-president of the Hauts-de-France region.
Municipal councilor since 1989, she had already been mayor of the Picardy capital from 2002 to 2007 when the incumbent Gilles de Robien was minister. She was also a European MP in 2008-2009. Hubert de Jenlis has been an insurance agent for 28 years in Amiens, where he is from. Together candidate during the legislative elections, he started in politics by joining the Radical Party in 2006 then participated in the creation of the UDI in 2012. In 2018, he left the UDI to join La République En Marche.