Overview
- Durain won 54 votes out of 71 cast in the 100-member council, defeating LR candidate Jean-Marie Sermier, who received 17.
- The Rassemblement national’s 17 councillors refused to take part and labeled the election a sham.
- He succeeds Marie-Guite Dufay, who led the region for 17 years and had prepared a planned transition.
- In his first remarks, he promised continuity on employment and decarbonization and criticized the Prime Minister’s confidence vote as burdensome for local authorities.
- Nationally prominent for co-authoring the 2024 anti-narcotrafic law promulgated on 13 June 2025, he had been designated in July as the left-ecologist majority’s sole candidate.