The varied left left mayor of La Rochelle, Jean-François Fountaine, introduced, Friday, June 6, his resignation, after eleven years on the head of the town of Charente-Maritime and fewer than a yr from the subsequent municipal elections.
“Time passes and it seems to me that you have to know how to turn the page. So I made the decision not to represent myself in the next municipal elections ”he mentioned in a video on his Facebook web page, explaining to interact “This transition now”. “I will resign from my mandate as mayor so that within our majority a new mayor can be elected during the municipal council of June 16”added the 73 -year -old councilor.
Her present first assistant, Catherine Léonidas, will make sure the interim by then. Jean-François Fountaine, who will stay municipal councilor, will retain the presidency of the agglomeration. During a press convention on the city corridor, the elected official mentioned he had “No particular concern”explaining that political life was “Not all [s]for life “.
Participation within the Montreal Olympic Games
In 2014, having misplaced little (34 votes) the citizen major in view of the municipal elections towards the younger finance assistant, Anne-Laure Jaumouillié, Jean-François Fountaine had maintained his candidacy, upsetting his exclusion from the Socialist Party (PS), and gained the poll.
And in 2020, this time supported by the PS, he had gained the city corridor with 181 votes upfront in entrance of his ex-friend and help, the deputy Olivier Falorni, a former socialist too.
Born within the Paris area, Jean-François Fountaine first made a reputation for himself in nautical competitors with participation within the Montreal Olympic Games in 1976 after which transatlantic victories aboard the catamarans. In 1976, he joined one other well-known Régateur, Yves Pajot, to create a small nautical challenge, Fountaine-Pajot, who turned the world chief in cruise catamarans.
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