Overview

• API News, an Ouest-France affiliate, reports the Oct. 6 departure and says Guerriau confirmed it in a letter to Loire-Atlantique mayors.
• He frames the exit as fulfilling a 2023 pledge to pass his seat mid-term to running mate Marie‑Pierre Guérin, the mayor of La Meilleraye‑de‑Bretagne.
• Sandrine Josso denounced the announcement as a strategic retreat and said she learned of it with disgust in a public statement.
• Judicial documents cited by AFP state he will face trial for allegedly diluting 91.1% pure MDMA in champagne to facilitate a rape or sexual assault, with an additional count for drug possession.
• Guerriau remains suspended by Horizons and Les Indépendants, and Senate President Gérard Larcher has signaled a referral to the chamber’s ethics committee.