One rural mayor called for the mandate to be “professionalized” and limited over time

He said it himself: nothing determined his destiny to become mayor, especially not in a small, rural town. At the age of 40, as her first mandate as councilor of Châtel-en-Trièves (Isère), a village of 500 inhabitants at the foot of the Dévoluy, was coming to an end, Fanny Lacroix turned to political and intimate essays, Throughout the village (Utopia, 208 pages, 10 euros). He traces what led him to settle in Trièves, a central mountainous region on the border of Isère and Hautes-Alpes, later becoming a local elected official and vice president of the Association of French Rural Mayors (AMRF).

Fanny Lacroix’s career was built on it “girl? » launched on herself: leaving the city, Paris, where she worked as a city planner, to follow her partner to the countryside. In 2014, he became secretary of the town hall in Saint-Sébastien, which merged in 2017 with Cordéac to become Châtel-en-Trièves. Be accepted and elected as mayor of the new municipality, develop a culture of building together with its residents. Shake the code of ethics within AMRF, participate in political parties, place it in public, then take part in the legislative elections for the Ministry of Democracy in 2022.

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