“We ought to by no means go away Montauban. » Lino Ventura’s tirade within the movie The Gunslingers right now largely spills over from cinema screens. In the Tarn-et-Garonne prefecture, there are seven of them operating for city corridor, in a state of affairs worthy of a thriller. Seven males, to succeed Brigitte Barèges, who performed the main position for a number of a long time. Former member of parliament for eleven years and mayor of the city of 63,000 inhabitants for twenty-three years, the 73-year-old lawyer should actually go away the keys to city corridor.
In 2021, she already needed to abandon her mandate for a couple of months on account of a sentence of ineligibility for provisional execution, for embezzlement of public funds. The affair already involved the workings of the municipality and the financing of a fictitious job for a communications officer. She turned mayor once more after being acquitted on attraction, till July 2024, when she deserted her mandate in favor of that of deputy. But, on July 11, 2025, the Constitutional Council canceled her legislative election, and she or he was as soon as once more declared ineligible, for a interval of 1 12 months and mechanically resigned from her mandate as deputy.
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