After twenty-three years at the head of the city of Dijon, François Rebsamen announced his departure on Monday, November 18 in an interview with Public Good. “I will hand over my mayoral chair to my first deputy, Nathalie Koenders”he says in this interview, a year and a half before the municipal elections.
This transfer of power must still be approved. in municipal council on November 25. Aged 47, Mme Koenders would then become the first female mayor of Dijon. She had already held this position on an interim basis for a few months in 2018, when Mr. Rebsamen was being treated for cancer.
If he intends to keep his chair as president of the Metropolis, the former minister of labor under François Hollande says he “tired of [ses] weeks with busy days, at least twelve hours ». “I don’t know if they will be less in the Metropolis, but they will be different. It feels good”he added.
Support for Emmanuel Macron in 2022
For Mr. Rebsamen, “we need greater availability, at a time when urban and rural areas are not in total phase, at a time when we can clearly see, with the debate on Mercosur [traité de libre-échange négocié avec l’Union européenne]that the rural world is in difficulty”.
This former national secretary of the PS, very close to François Hollande, supported Emmanuel Macron in 2022. After leaving the Socialist Party, he then created the Progressive Federation, a “left-wing government movement which brings together elected officials and citizens who no longer recognize themselves in the Socialist Party”.
