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Opposition leaders and feminist groups in France have protested over a local town mayor convicted of rape who has been allowed to continue running his municipality of 30,000 people from a prison cell. For more than two months, Georges Tron, who was once a central government minister under Nicolas Sarkozy, has run the town of Draveil, a southern suburb of Paris, from his prison cell after being convicted of the rape and sexual assault of a junior staff member at his town hall office... Tron has refused to resign and according to reports in The Guardian, continues to communicate with his advisers by letter, describing his current incarceration as an "impediment." A municipal council meeting held earlier this week opened with members of Tron's staff reading a letter sent from his cell with instructions regarding the town's budget, which provoked widespread anger from opposition politicians.