Pays de la Loire: the former president of the region Jacques Auxiette has died – Le Journal des Sables

Jacques Auxiette died at the age of 81 yesterday, from cardiac arrest following surgery.

The socialist had been elected mayor of La Roche-sur-Yon (from March 1977 to April 2004), municipal councilor of La Roche-sur-Yon (from 1971 to 2014), president of the community council of the community of communes of the Pays Yonnais (from 1994 to 1995 and from 1998 to 2001).

He was also president of the mixed union of the country Yon et Vie (from 2002 to 2014). He especially elected president of the Pays de la Loire regional council (from 2004 to 2015).

Regional advisor for Pays de la Loire (from 1979 to 1983 and from 1986 to 2015).

Political life

First a UNEF activist, Jacques Auxiette began his political career in La Roche-sur-Yon in 1970 when he joined the PSU. In 1973, he joined the PS and became secretary of the La Roche-sur-Yon section. In 1986, he became the first federal secretary for the Vendée, a position he held until 1990. At the same time, he took on a trade union commitment to the National Union of Secondary Education, mutualist to MGEN, and in the popular education within the Federation of Secular Works of Vendée.

I want to pay tribute to my predecessor Jacques Auxiette, who has just left us. His commitment, his intelligence and his passion for the Pays de la Loire made him an esteemed and respected president, far beyond his political camp. Thoughts of his family his loved ones. pic.twitter.com/KbBn5KKZyB

– Christelle MORANÇAIS (@C_MORANCAIS) December 11, 2021

In 1977, he was elected mayor of La Roche-sur-Yon, at the head of a list of the united left. From 1979 to 1985, he was general councilor of the northern canton of La Roche-sur-Yon.

He sat on the Pays de la Loire regional council from 1979, and retained his mandate as mayor until 2004, when he won the presidency of the region against François Fillon. He then left his place as mayor to Pierre Regnault, while remaining a municipal councilor. In the second round of the 2010 French regional elections, he was reelected with 56.39% of the vote against 43.61% for the UMP list led by Christophe Béchu.

Jacques Auxiette had known how to bring together to tip his city and his adopted region to the left, but his unwavering commitment allowed him to unite beyond political divisions.

Christelle Morancais holds the position, elected president of the Pays de la Loire regional council since 2017, following Bruno Retailleau.

If the socialist militants lose a friend, the Vendéennes and the Vendéens see leaving a prominent figure in our department. His tenures at the head of the capital of the Vendée and the Region have indeed been marked by essential achievements which have contributed to the attractiveness of our region where life is good. Attentive to the needs of the population, cultivating close proximity at all times and convinced of the importance of closely involving citizens in public action carried out by elected officials, Jacques Auxiette will have profoundly changed the way in which political action is conceived. .

Jacques Auxiette was also administrator of the ENA (1983-1987).

Jacques Auxiette leaves us, leaving the memory of a mayor in the field, borrowing from this particular listening which gives popular legitimacy.
A tribute will be paid to him at @larochesuryonfr to which he gave so much.
The emotion of the Yonnais remains the most beautiful of tributes. pic.twitter.com/TZmEyHtGYQ

– Luc_Bouard (@Lucbouard) December 11, 2021

In October 2015, Jacques Auxiette announced that he did not want to renew his mandate during the regional elections in December.

With the death of Jacques Auxiette, it is a page in the history of the Pays de la Loire, but also of the Vendée, which turns. We fought each other for a long time, sometimes hard. Despite our disagreements, I respected him, because he defended our region when it was threatened with fragmentation. The last time I saw him was at Fontevrault Abbey, which he loved and chaired, just like me. We also had the same conception of politics: action in the service of convictions. He was a man of commitment to his ideas.

He passed away yesterday, December 10, 2021.

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