Overview
- Dunis announced his resignation on Wednesday, saying a health problem discovered “a few days” earlier demands his full attention and declining to give medical details.
- Under French municipal law the prefect of Loiret must accept the resignation before the existing council meets to elect a new mayor, and the council must convene within 15 days of that acceptance with a successor expected in September.
- Dunis said he will retain a seat on the municipal council as his health allows and pledged that his political group will present a single RN candidate to ensure continuity of municipal action.
- The move follows Dunis’s narrow victory in the March 22 municipal vote, which he won by about a hundred votes in a town that shifted from long-standing right-wing control to RN this year.
- Local voices from across the political spectrum have publicly responded, RN deputy Thomas Ménagé praised Dunis’s sense of responsibility, and coverage notes the town’s recent social tensions and economic challenges as the wider context for the leadership change.