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Jean-Louis Borloo during the national convention of intercommunalities in Aussonne (Haute-Garonne), in the suburbs of Toulouse, October 9, 2025.

There was a “Borloo moment” on the intercommunal conference. Local elected officers representing the nation’s 1,254 teams of municipalities, assembly in Aussonne (Haute-Garonne), within the suburbs of Toulouse, from Wednesday October 8 to Friday October 10, regretted not welcoming any minister to their congress, resulting from lack of presidency. Jean-Louis Borloo allowed them to console themselves.

The identify of the previous mayor of Valenciennes (1989-2002), within the North, former minister of Jacques Chirac then of Nicolas Sarkozy between 2002 and 2010, founding father of the Union of Democrats and Independents (UDI), retired from political life since 2014, is cited, amongst others, as a possible prime minister to exchange the resigning Sébastien Lecornu.

And there are indicators which might be unmistakable. Thursday morning, within the shuttle which takes him to the monumental congress heart within the Toulouse suburbs the place the “2,000” native elected officers, the press officer of Intercommunalités de France can’t let go of his cellphone: all of the TV stations need to come and hearken to Jean-Louis Borloo whose well timed presence in Toulouse is “a coincidence, perhaps happy, but a coincidence”we guarantee at Intercommunalités de France.

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