Where is the deputy?
A deputy is hiding in the photo above. Will you be able to find it? Hint: the scene takes place during a double inauguration, on October 18, of a multidisciplinary health center and a media library. Don't you see? Another clue: she was elected ric-rac in July with 75 votes ahead of her competitor. Come on, one last clue for the road: a former MP is in the photo, elected in the same constituency in 2012. The answer at the end of the article (1).
Mental calculation
Monday evening, during the general assembly of the Sarlat felibrée association, which will be held from July 4 to 6, 2025, Mayor Jean-Jacques de Peretti appeared in good shape. While we were looking for referents for each commune of the intercommunality, Beynac was missing. “They couldn’t take the detour, that’s why they’re not here,” smiled the city councilor. A joke on a very divisive subject in the valley, which sparked more than just laughter in the audience. The chief magistrate found himself less in good shape when calculating how long it had been since the city of La Boétie had hosted the great Occitan festival. “1994?” Twenty years already! », he exclaimed, before being taken back by his deputies. “Time flies so quickly,” he tried to point out. Not for his opponents, who have been waiting since 1989.
Habits
Tuesday evening, Jacques Auzou temporarily left his place in the stands of the Arena Le Palio Périgord during the Boulazac Basket Dordogne match. “Has the mayor gone?” », asked Jean-François Pinson, president of Semipal and finance deputy of Boulazac-Isle-Manoire. And he was not talking about Fanny Castaignede, who has held the position for three weeks. An old reflex because, since 1989 and the election of Auzou, habits have been created.
Adoubé
There are signs that are unmistakable. A fortnight ago, during the annual gathering of the department's socialists, the mayor of Périgueux had fun mocking an enigmatic “Parisian candidate” from the right, without naming Clément Tonon (read the “Drums” section of October 26 ). There was a time not so long ago when it was his predecessor as town hall of Périgueux, Antoine Audi, who was the object of this type of mockery. The exercise is never completely free, sarcasm is a way of dubbing Tonon as a competitor for the 2026 municipal elections.
Deliveries
Hallelujah! We finally know when the Périgueux market will return to Place de la Clautre, after almost a year of work: Wednesday November 27. Initially announced in July, delivery of the site will have been a mere five months late. On the other hand, the greatest uncertainty still remains concerning two other major projects: the Rongiéras stadium and the athletics track. We remember that the CAP Rugby players were initially due to set foot on the brand new Rongiéras pitch for the resumption in September 2024. There was then talk of this fall, then January 2025. Now, it is rumored that it will be at the end of winter. We might as well postpone all that until the season resumes, in September 2025. And on the athletic side? Same: from September 2024, its delivery is postponed to spring 2025. After the Périgord quarter of an hour, the Périgueux town hall invented the Périgord semester.
Occupy the land
Monday November 4, the local group Europe Écologie – Les Verts Sud Dordogne will make its political “return”. A meeting without Lionel Frel, party figure, who is now in Grenoble where he is assistant principal in a large high school. But the group says it is “strengthened by the arrival of new members”. The Greens announce themselves to be “united and determined to influence the political orientations of our territory”. Enough to occupy the land sixteen months before the municipal elections.
DETOUR
The countdown is nearing its end. Everyone holds their breath. By Saturday, November 9, the prefect will have ruled: will he approve the new Beynac diversion project? The bookmakers have taken the bets and the odds of “yes” win by far. Even among opponents, like Gérard Charollois who, as soon as the favorable opinion of the public inquiry was known in September, predicted that “the prefect will authorize the project for political reasons”. On the other hand, opinions are more divided on the future: will the work resume at an accelerated pace as soon as authorization is obtained, as in 2018, or will the Department cautiously wait until the inevitable appeals are purged? Bets are on. Make your bets!
Perseverance
Another failure for the Department regarding the passage of the Tour de France, whose 2025 route was announced on Tuesday. The Grande Boucle has not stopped here since 2017, while Germinal Peiro claims to be a permanent candidate. “I think we will have it before the end of my mandate”, i.e. in March 2028. He has been waiting for another major project for more than thirty years. Is it really two years away?
(1) This is National Rally elected official Florence Joubert, 3rd from the right, behind senator Marie-Claude Varaillas.
