Gérard Larrat leaves for a 3rd marketing campaign underneath strain from the RN | EUROtoday

On July 3, 2020, within the grounds of the Palais des Congrès in Carcassonne, the place the primary session of the municipal council came about, Gérard Larrat, the varied right-wing mayor re-elected 5 days earlier for the second time with 47.2% of the votes, claimed to hold out “the first day of [son] last term “. Nearly six years later, on December 5, 2025, the outgoing councilor formalized his candidacy for re-election within the March municipal elections. This resolution, when two deputies of the bulk had already declared themselves candidates, opened the best way to cascading departures throughout the municipal council.

“There are times when you have to take responsibility,” Gérard Larrat justified himself. “In 2020, I launched a ten-year program and I thought there would be candidates on my team capable of taking over. But that wasn’t the case. So, I decided to run again. It’s courage, political courage, because I wanted to do something else”he admits. At the pinnacle of town of 46,500 inhabitants since 2014, the outgoing mayor, aged 84, defends his report citing, for instance, the creation of the Sports City and the funding of greater than 4 million euros within the renovation of the facades of buildings and store home windows within the metropolis heart and the medieval metropolis.

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