Angers mayor succession, a controversy is spreading in medias

According to local medias, the resignation of Jean-Claude Antonini, mayor of Angers for yet a few hours and the election by the town councillors of the majority side at city hall of his heir, Frédéric Beatse, would be the result of a plot.

The roots of that plan could be partly due to a resentment of Mr Antonini against Jean-Luc Rotureau who, a few years ago, followed, regarding the project of an express way at the South of Angers a stance slightly different of the mayors point of view. The secret scheme between Mr Antonini, Mr Beatse and two others persons, Daniel Raoul, senator, and the head of the mayor's cabinet, aimed at avoiding the organization of primaries between the candidates to the Angers office of mayor, whose effects could be unwanted.


The disappointment, or at least, the bewilderment of some majority town's councillors was today reported by local medias what could weakening the position of Mr Beatse, what Mr Rotureau could exploit. According the the medias, Paris company was even hired to help these four persons to settle the problem. A crisis communication agency could be needed soon...