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Inside Europe: Why French mayors are fed up

SYSTEMJanuary 25, 2019

According to a recent poll in France, one in two of the country's mayors are dissatisfied with their job and considering standing down at the next municipal elections in eighteen months' time. Given that France has a rather astonishing 35,000 mayors, this is a large-scale problem. Our correspondent John Laurenson sent us this postcard from the village of Hermeray, with his thoughts on the matter.

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