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Jean-Louis Bousquet, mayor (without label) of Carmaux (Tarn), June 18, 2024.

The mayor with out label of Carmaux, Jean-Louis Bousquet, couldn’t hope for a greater date to inaugurate Place Gambetta. Friday January 23, lower than two months earlier than the primary spherical of municipal elections, the inauguration of this house planted with timber and redeveloped for the advantage of pedestrians occurred within the presence of Christophe Ramond, socialist president of the Tarn departmental council, and Simon Bertoux, the prefect of the division.

This occasion crowns the completion of a plan to renovate the previous mining city of 9,900 inhabitants, launched by town councilor elected in 2020. “This place is the iceberg of everything we have done. But it should not overshadow projects that cannot be seen. But they are important for the community”explains Jean-Louis Bousquet. The mayor defends the outcomes of his first mandate, citing, for instance, the set up of photovoltaic panels on the roof of the general public nursing house. But, aged 70, he’s hesitant to run for a second time period. He is anticipated to announce his choice on Wednesday January 28.

Entering politics in 2020, this candidate on the head of a residents’ record then labeled varied left gained the city corridor from the socialist outgoing, Alain Espié (34.09% of the votes), by gathering 49.04% of the votes. The Norman mechanic, put in in Carmaux in 1984, put an finish to at least one hundred and twenty-eight years of socialism. This uninterrupted succession of mayors started in 1892 with the election of Jean-Baptiste Calvignac, the miner whose dismissal had provoked a strike supported by Jean Jaurès, elected deputy for the constituency on a number of events between the top of the nineteenth century.e century and his demise in 1914.

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