Overview
- Petex announced her departure in a Nov. 6 statement after months on medical leave, stepping down from both her parliamentary seat and her departmental mandate.
- In her letter, she invoked “a too much of everything,” listing criticisms, attacks, attempts at discouragement and threats, and lamenting a political climate that “disgusts” and exhausts her.
- Under election rules, voters in the 3rd constituency will return to the polls for a legislative by-election, countering a local report that said her substitute would take the seat.
- Her entourage indicated partial elections to fill the vacancies are expected within three months, though official calendars have not yet been set.
- Elected since 2021 and re-elected in 2024 with 56.19% as a centre-right candidate, Petex represented a long right-leaning stronghold and had broken with her camp by opposing the 2023 pension reform.