“My goal is to help my town,” he declared to Le Parisien at the beginning of February.
Radio and television host Stéphane Bern was elected municipal councilor in Thiron-Gardais (Eure-et-Loir) on Sunday, where he has owned, since 2013, the former royal and military college which he had restored and transformed into museum.
He now lives there full time after leaving Paris in 2021 where he was a municipal councilor in the 9th arrondissement from 1999 to 2001.
Three candidates were in the running this Sunday in the complementary municipal partial elections for three vacant seats, in order to complete the municipal council in this Perche commune of a thousand inhabitants, following the resignation of mayor Victor Provôt at the start of 'year.
The Franco-Luxembourger Stéphane Bern, 60, obtained 97.3% of the votes cast, with a participation amounting to 45.3%.
The election of the mayor must take place this week during a municipal council.
The former first deputy and interim mayor, François Dordoigne, candidate for the mayor's chair, is expected to be elected.
“Thank you to the voters of Thiron-Gardais for their trust!”, he wrote on the social network X.
“So much the better if my name can help”
“At some point you have to get involved.
I'm already at all the village festivals, I give out prizes, cups, I express myself even though I have no title.
So much the better if my name can help,” he explained in our columns.
He had announced that he would continue “to defend the heritage of the municipality which is very indebted… We must straighten out the finances and fight to defend the territorial network, rurality, insists the host of Europe 1. I have the The impression that, sometimes, people in Paris do not understand the issues of rurality at all.
Many farmers are having difficulties, we need to be with them”
Long considered the “Mr. Heritage” of public service thanks to his programs like “Secrets of History”, the presenter who currently works on Europe 1 has been charged by the Élysée since 2017 with a mission for heritage.
It is for this reason that it organizes an annual Heritage Lottery to finance the maintenance of monuments in danger.