“inaction”, “basket of crabs”, “latent paternalism”, departmental and municipal councilor Maud Dumont resigns

Saying she is “stuck by ever-decreasing skills and finances, stuck by a certain immobility, stuck in a basket of crabs for visibility, stuck by a latent paternalism”, Maud Dumont draws up a straightforward assessment of her action, she who says she is committed in 2021 to “climate mandates” to “bring the necessary ecological bifurcation before it is too late”: “For three and a half years, I sat on numerous boards [conseils d’administration, NDLR]supported local associations to obtain funding, saved some wetlands and helped extremely precarious individual situations. »

“In the rural world”

The resignation was imposed due to a failure to find “the efficiency necessary to change things,” says Maud Dumont, also a parliamentary collaborator of environmentalist senator Monique de Marco. She intends to continue her commitment, “but differently”, “in the rural world”. “This, for me, is where the fight against the rise of the far right is happening. But this is also where the questions arise that speak to me the most: the change in agricultural model, the defense of health, water sharing, the maintenance of public services, the energy transition, mobility. »