2024-01-04 09:00:00
Invited to participate in host Robert Legault’s New Year’s Party, notably to play traditional music, the mayor spoke in an interview of the difficulties of reconciling her professional and personal life since the start of her term at Sherbrooke town hall.
“Sometimes, I had the impression that it was always the mayor, the mayor, the mayor, but, at a given moment, there is Évelyne who also exists and who needs to have her space in my life,” she explained on the microphone of the Sherbrooke community station.
“It’s important, in our societies that move so fast, sometimes, to take a step back and ask ourselves if the life we are living is capable of living it in the long term,” said the mayor. . Sometimes there are adjustments to be made, and then it sometimes takes a period of reflection to be able to make these adjustments. »
These are Évelyne Beaudin’s first public comments since announcing her leave on October 30. Acting mayor Raïs Kibonge now acts as mayor of the city and councilor Laure Letarte-Lavoie replaces Ms. Beaudin as president of the executive committee.
This leave had been given “on the orders of his doctor”, explained at the time the Director General of the City, Éric Sévigny. “I want to avoid a state of exhaustion that would be too great and too difficult to overcome,” Ms. Beaudin wrote at the time.
“It’s going well,” she told CFLX on Monday. […] It’s something healthy to take a moment in this society that moves so fast. We are in performance all the time. We are either performing at the municipal council, or performing with the media, in interviews.”
Since her work stoppage, Évelyne Beaudin claimed to have taken time for herself, to devote herself to music and dancing, for example.
A return soon?
At the Sherbrooke town hall office, it is clarified that this interview given by the mayor is not a sign of an imminent return. According to the cabinet representative contacted Wednesday by La Tribune, it is still too early to foresee a return date.
At the moment, she emphasizes, Ms. Beaudin continues to rest. More information may be given during the month of January.
Under the law, this state of affairs might continue without consequence up to 90 days following his first absence from a public meeting, informed the City Clerk, Éric Martel, in October. The first session following this announcement being that of November 7, 2023, the deadline to continue without finding “alternatives” is therefore February 5, 2024.
The avenue that might be used to allow Ms. Beaudin to extend her leave following this date is that of a resolution adopted by the municipal council. At the cabinet, we did not want to comment on whether this avenue had already been studied.
There will be a council meeting on January 23. Subsequent sessions are scheduled for February 6 and 20.
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