Sherbrooke Mayor Évelyne Beaudin announced Monday that she was suspending her municipal activities indefinitely on the advice of her doctor.
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In a message to Sherbrooke residents on her Facebook page, Mayor Beaudin writes that this break recommended by her doctor seems “prudent at this time” because she wants to “avoid a state of exhaustion that would be too important and too difficult to overcome.” . .
Ms. Beaudin writes that she “cannot and does not want to name a specific cause for this work interruption.” She adds that being mayor is “both the most extraordinary and the most difficult thing that has happened in her life.”
It is the deputy mayor, Raïs Kibonge, who will exercise the mayor’s powers in the absence of Ms. Beaudin, indicates Éric Sévigny, general manager of the city, in a press release.
Mr Sévigny added that the local council and the city administration “continue to work together to ensure that this change does not impact services to the population.”
Councilwoman Laure Letarte-Lavoie will also chair the city’s Executive Committee during Mayor Beaudin’s absence.
“You may have seen me in public or private activities over the past few days and thought I looked good,” Mayor Beaudin wrote in her message to Sherbrooke residents. “That may have been the case, but we must never forget that in politics we often find ourselves in situations in which we have to perform. »
Évelyne Beaudin, a trained economist, was elected as a Sherbrooke city councilor in 2017. In the following election in 2021, she ran for city hall, defeating outgoing mayor Steve Lussier, but also a “star candidate”, ex-minister and Liberal provincial MP Luc Fortin.