in Romorantin-Lanthenay, new contest for the indestructible Jeanny Lorgeoux | EUROtoday

“It would be comfortable to say, after all this time: “Who can dethrone me?” No, I put together as if it had been my first time. » From her city corridor, a former non-public mansion of a big industrial household from Romorantin-Lanthenay (Loir-et-Cher), Jeanny Lorgeoux sweeps the horizon, dominated by a chic Chinese pagoda and the monumental door of the outdated woolen material manufacturing facility, witness to the previous prosperity of this city of 19,000 inhabitants.

After forty years of working town, the “Lion of Sologne” – a nickname he assumes – is heading in the direction of yet one more political contest. In March 2026, the person who could have celebrated his 76th birthday will run for a brand new time period as mayor, the eighth with out interruption since 1985.

In the previously working-class city crossed by the Sauldre, devastated by the earthquake brought on by the closure of the Matra Automobile manufacturing facility and the destruction of almost a thousand jobs in 2003, time appears to have achieved its work.

“We got up, defends Jeanny Lorgeoux, detailing her achievements behind the huge window overlooking the street. I have important projects to complete and still many ideas for mine”he continues, with a twinkle in his eye, to elucidate the explanations for a brand new candidacy, introduced within the spring, one yr earlier than the deadline. Weakened for a time by well being issues however now “operational”he doesn’t keep away from, both, the philosophical dimension that this new marketing campaign has for him. “In the fight, I feel good. And working is also a way of fending off death”admits this social democrat who now rejects any get together affiliation.

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