His friends did not necessarily understand his withdrawal from the presidential election.
Neither of the AMF.
At 56 years old, after a seven-year term at the head of the Association of Mayors of France, François Baroin, who retains his mandate as mayor of Troyes and president of the mayors of Aube, wants to enjoy life and his freedom, very far from social networks and news channels.
"He is part of this generation which no longer finds itself in phase with current political life, which has nothing to do with the great epics of before,"
said a friend.
Above all, François Baroin has always theorized his desire to
"promote the passing of the baton"
to new generations as Jacques Chirac, earlier, had done for him.
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