Flying over the sea, its silver reflections, a clear gulf ... Laurent Marcangeli measures the price of renouncing his mandate as a deputy. No more weekly takeoff for Paris from Ajaccio airport. Gone are the two days spent each week in the National Assembly and greetings to ministers in the Hemicycle. Without regret, according to the mayor (ex-Les Républicains, LR) of the Corsican capital, elected for six years. "I lived better the last half of my local mandate," he explains. "Exercising a municipal and national office at the same time is not possible when you run a city of 70,000 inhabitants."
Forced, in 2017, to choose one of their functions, the ex-parliamentarians now entrenched in their city discover the virtues of non-cumulation: they are more present in their commune and better follow local files. A boon for elected outgoing campaign, certainly deprived of the aura of a national function, but mobilized full time with their
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