Antoine Valentin, the favourite rural mayor of the far proper, on the gates of the National Assembly | EUROtoday

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Antoine Valentin, mayor of Saint-Jeoire (Haute-Savoie) and candidate for deputy, in Paris, November 25, 2025.

Antoine Valentin actually wished to be mayor. “The most beautiful mandate”, “a commitment three hundred and sixty-five days per year”removed from “partisan politics, very futile, quite cynical”. It was three years in the past, in an extended interview with Current valuesin the course of his mandate. He wished it so ardently, this city corridor of the small city of Saint-Jeoire (Haute-Savoie), that he had, in a uncommon maneuver, plotted in 2020 to take away the top of the listing delivered to the city corridor by the voters: within the two months separating the election of the primary municipal council, in opposition to a backdrop of confinement linked to Covid-19, the third on the listing had returned a majority of his working mates and, on the day of the set up of the mayor, the one anticipated was taken from behind. Antoine Valentin placed on the tricolor scarf over his go well with.

But the Arve valley is just too slim for anybody who sees to date: Paris is ready for Antoine Valentin, who’s making an attempt for the second time to eliminate this mandate taken hussarly. After failing within the 2024 legislative elections, the aspiring deputy, who didn’t reply to Worldappears properly on his strategy to coming into the National Assembly on the finish of the by-election within the 3e Haute-Savoie constituency, Sunday 1er FEBRUARY.

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