Municipal elections 2026: being mayor, "it is to be a shock absorber of popular anger" | EUROtoday
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Every day, France’s 35,000 mayors are on the entrance line to satisfy the expectations of residents and probably the most uncovered to their anger, which generally takes the type of dying threats. These elected officers additionally should cope with declining public funding and ever-increasing administrative constraints. A headache for these Swiss military knives of the Republic, which incorporates Romain Colas, mayor of Boussy-Saint-Antoine, southeast of Paris, since 2008.
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