Camille Pouponneau, resigning mayor and face of a vocation disaster | EUROtoday

Camille Pouponneau was constructed with a saying, “Work pays, always”. Before questioning it as quickly as its election on the city corridor of Pibrac (Haute-Garonne) within the first spherical, in March 2020. After a really intense municipal marketing campaign, the younger mayor (numerous left) was unable to train her features till three months later, on the finish of confinement. First chilly bathe.

The final one is when the Pibracaise hangs up its tricolor scarf at 35, in October 2024, and leaves its features. The motive? The worry of a burn-out linked to “A feeling of constant helplessness, seventy hours of work per week for 80 % of the minimum wage (…) and a public crumbs service for lack of sufficient means ”she details on X shortly after her resignation. On March 20, she published Mayors, the big mess (Robert Laffont, 234 pages, 19.50 euros). A way to digest the four -year balance sheet at the head of this town near Toulouse and sound the alarm on the conditions of exercise of the mayors.

“Approach [des municipales de] 2026, I’ve fears for the well being of my colleagues, as a result of individuals who take these tasks have an necessary sense of obligation. »» By penning this work, Camille Pouponneau tries to elevate the taboo on the psychological well being of native elected officers. “It is a political act to write this book in an environment where vulnerability has no place”helps the younger girl, all the time enthusiastic about public life.

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