“RIen, nor anyone, could compel me to resign ”. This is the answer that Joël Guerriau brought in the fall of 2024 when several petitions or stands circulated to claim his withdrawal from the Senate. A year later, the former mayor of Saint-Sébastien-sur-Loire, commune of the southern agglomeration of Nantes, is finally preparing to yield his chair to the Palais du Luxembourg, as revealed Ouest-France This Saturday, September 20.
The reason? During his election in September 2023 under the label of the Horizons party, for which he had received the official support of its president Édouard Philippe, he would have promised to entrust the position in mid-term to his package, Marie-Pierre Guérin. Time to “defend sure texts together with one on copyright”, has justified itself to …
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