The mayor of Périgueux, Delphine Labail, “exhausted”, withdraws from her mandate to protect her well being | EUROtoday

She bought “exhausted” to the duty: the mayor of Périgueux (Dordogne), Delphine Labail, introduced “stand back” of its mandate to protect its ” health “ and his “family balance”in a press launch revealed late Friday, December 13.

The 49-year-old socialist, elected head of this city of almost 30,000 inhabitants in 2020, explains feeling “the effects of significant professional burnout, which endangers both [sa] health and [son] family balance ».

The one who is also regional councilor of Nouvelle-Aquitaine and first vice-president of the agglomeration of Grand Périgueux evokes “considerable energy” requested of a mayor, “mainly in rural areas”THE “expectations of those administered” and the “availability at any time”. She additionally factors to the “political fight”, “more difficult and trying when you are a woman”.

“Ever stronger regulatory constraints”

In her press launch, Delphine Labail mentioned she didn’t “did not save energy”going through “ever stronger regulatory constraints, ever more complex procedures and the limited financial constraints of local authorities”.

Antoine Audi, opposition chief and former right-wing mayor of Périgueux, visitor of France Bleu Périgord on Saturday morning, estimated that the socialist mayor had made a ” error “exhausting oneself “to make his mandate as mayor a political fight”.

After asserting his withdrawal “for several months”Delphine Labail mentioned that her first deputy would take over in her absence, in accordance with laws.

At the congress of the Association of Mayors of France (AMF) in November, the Minister for Partnership with Territories, Catherine Vautrin, affirmed that 2,400 mayors – out of a complete of round 35,000 in France – had resigned because the begin of their mandate in June 2020, i.e. “40 more per year during this mandate”.

And 83% of mayors imagine that their mandate “is harmful to health”in line with a research carried out in 2024 by Sciences Po and the CNRS for the AMF. In 2022, an Ifop survey additionally indicated that a couple of in two mayors (55%) didn’t want to run once more on the finish of their mandate in 2026, a document in twenty years.