Evelyn Beaudin is open about the reasons for her leave

Invited to participate New Year's Day Party By host Robert Legault, especially to play traditional music, the mayor spoke in an interview about the difficulties in reconciling her professional life and her personal life since the beginning of her mandate at the Sherbrooke Town Hall.

“Sometimes, I always have the impression that it's mayor, mayor, mayor, but, at a certain moment, Evelyn is there too and she has to have a place in my life,” she explained into the microphone. Sherbrooke Community Station.

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These are Evelyn Beaudin's first public comments since announcing the holiday on October 30. Acting Mayor Rhys Kibonge is now the acting mayor of the city and Ms. Councilor Laure Letarte-Laoi. Beaudin replaced him as chairman of the executive committee.

The leave was given “on the orders of his doctor,” Eric Sevigny, the city's director general, explained at the time. “I want to avoid the state of exhaustion, which is so great and so hard to overcome,” Ms. Beaudin wrote at the time.

“It's fine,” she told CFLX on Monday. […] In this fast moving society it is healthy to take a moment. We are in performance all the time. We are presenting at the municipal council or in interviews with the media.

Ever since she stopped working, Evelyn Beaudin claims to have taken time for herself to devote herself to music and dance.

Coming back soon?

At the Sherbrooke Town Hall office, the mayor made it clear that the interview was not a sign of an imminent comeback. According to a ministry spokesperson contacted on Wednesday GalleryIt is still too early to predict a return date.

For now, she insists, Ms. Beaudin is resting. More information will be given in the month of January.

By law, the condition can continue without repercussion for up to 90 days after his first absence from a public meeting, the city clerk, Eric Martel, was told in October. The first session after this announcement is November 7, 2023, with a deadline of February 5, 2024 to continue without finding “alternatives”.

A resolution passed by the municipal council would allow Mrs. Beaudin to extend her leave beyond this date. At Cabinet, we do not wish to comment on whether this avenue has already been studied.

There will be a council meeting on January 23. The next sessions will be held on February 6 and 20.