François Bayrou places his nationwide ambitions on maintain to play his third time period | EUROtoday

From his workplace at city corridor, François Bayrou solely has to look out the window to look at the progress of the work on Place Royale in Pau. This restoration is without doubt one of the three main initiatives launched by the outgoing mayor nonetheless in progress, within the run-up to the municipal elections of March 15 and 22. “We have modified the face of Pau. Before my election, the town was dropping 1,000 residents per yr. Over the final three years, we have now gained again 5,000! »he boasts to the WorldThursday January 22.

Attached to his native Béarn, the 74-year-old councilor by no means imagined not working once more in his stronghold that he took so lengthy to overcome, in 2014, after two makes an attempt in 1989 and 2008. In mid-January, he due to this fact formalized his candidacy for a 3rd time period, after just a few weeks of relaxation which adopted his hospitalization for a extreme flu.

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