"I speak to you as I want my casserole". The sentence did not get through. But then not at all. No more than the "yes mistress, no mistress" used to address the one who presided over the municipal council. Monday evening, the mayor of Paimpol Fanny Chappé (PS) was taken to task by his predecessor Jean-Yves de Chaisemartin during the city council. Injured, the elected socialist of Côtes d'Armor was moved on her social networks. “We are still there in 2021. Being a woman mayor is also living that. A sexism that would go almost unnoticed ”. A post that has been widely commented and has received almost unanimous support. Several Breton elected officials have shown their solidarity, like the regional councilors Anne Gallo and Catherine Saint-James,or Rennes municipal councilor Béatrice Hakni-Robin or the deputy mayor of Brest Yohann Nédélec.

Beaten in the last municipal election in 2020, Jean-Yves de Chaisemartin was also very talkative by flooding the Facebook post with his comments in an attempt to justify himself. “To revel in the role of victim. The advice is available on video. You will understand, if you take the time, to what extent this complaint is abusive, caricatured and pathetic. One can be woman and incompetent. Even if you don't like it! », Replies the vice-president of the Côtes-d'Armor department. Before adding. "There is nothing insulting in an ironic and justified reaction," said the opposition city councilor, who considered "justified" to call a mayor "my casserole" in front of the city council. "I'm just telling you that casserole, bibiche, granny, pépette, doll ... are all familiar nicknames that are not insulting,but just the level of derogance that is imposed on a person devoid of legitimacy who needs to wrap himself in his unworthiness to exist, ”said the elected centrist.

Yesterday evening during the municipal council of Paimpol, an elected representative of the opposition calls out to me "I speak to you as I want my casserole (...) yes mistress, not mistress".

We are still there in 2021. Being a mayor also means living that.

#Sexism.

- Chappé Fanny (@fannychappe) April 27, 2021

These comments outraged more than one. Anne Gallo, who obviously knows very well the critical implicated "inappropriate and unacceptable remarks, even more in an official forum". "It is disrespectful towards a mayor woman or man or a person far from your close entourage", estimates the regional councilor delegated to tourism. The elected centrist explained that he had been “called out in names” during his mandate. "Do you want homophobic remarks? There are plenty of them. I never played the victim. I cashed. I moved forward ".

Elected in March 2008, Jean-Yves de Chaisemartin remained mayor of Paimpol until 2020, when he was beaten by a few votes by the socialist Fanny Chappé.

Educator of young children, she was elected to the Brittany Regional Council in 2017. In 2018, she attended a session with her baby.

“I don't want to choose between my personal life and my life as an elected official,” she explained.

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