"Where have the opponents gone?" The question is buzzing in several municipalities in the west of the Saône-et-Loire. Between the breeding of Charolais cows and the folds of the "blonde Loire" celebrated by Péguy, the inhabitants of Gueugnon and Digoin, 7,000 and 8,000 inhabitants, are getting ready to experience their first municipal campaign without a stake.
On the eve of the closing of the deposit of candidate lists for municipal and inter-municipal elections, their outgoing mayors - from the right in Digoin, from the left in Gueugnon - are the only declared candidates. An unprecedented situation, in communes hitherto accustomed to Homeric municipal battles. "It was always quite hectic," recalls
a resident, in the streets of Gueugnon.
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In the ranks of the local right, absent for the first time from the ballot, the elected officials, demotivated, have " no more energy" to run again for votes, against the socialist mayor Dominique Lotte. Their leader resigned from city council, and no one
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