Georges Sarre (26 November 1935 – 31 January 2019)
was a
French politician and leader of the
Citizen and Republican Movement.
Sarre was an early supporter of
and
François Mitterrand
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within the new
Socialist Party
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(PS), which he joined at the famous
Epinay Congress in 1971. He was the Socialist top candidate in the 1977
Paris municipal election but lost the election by a handful of votes to
Jacques Chirac
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.
He was elected
MEP in the
1979 European elections and was elected to the
French National Assembly
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for
Paris
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in
1981
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. Between 1988 and 1993 he served as Secretary of State for Road and Fluvial Transportation in the governments led by
Michel Rocard,
Édith Cresson and
Pierre Bérégovoy. He later served, between 1995 and 2008 as the Mayor of the
11th arrondissement of Paris
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.
In the left's
1993 debacle, he was re-elected in
Paris' 6th constituency, the only constituency not won by the right in that election. That same year, disagreeing with the Socialist Party's neo-liberal derive, he joined
in creating the
Citizens' Movement (MDC). The MDC became the Republican Pole in 2002 before adopting its current name, Citizen and Republican Movement (MRC). He supported Chevènement's candidacy in the
2002 presidential election and prepared a second Chevènement candidacy in the
2007 presidential election, but Chevènement did not run, instead supporting the Socialist candidate
Ségolène Royal
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Royal was president of the Poitou-Charentes Regional Council from 2004 to 2 ...
by the first round.
He was defeated in his constituency by the Socialist
Danièle Hoffman-Rispal in the
2002 French legislative election. However, ahead of the
2007 presidential election and
2007 legislative election in which the MRC supported Royal's candidacy in return for the Socialist Party's endorsement of Sarre's candidacy in the
Creuse's 2nd constituency in the June legislative election. Despite the lack of PS opposition, he lost the runoff to UMP incumbent
Jean Auclair.
He was often considered the co-leader of the MRC along with Chevènement, although Chevènement is currently the MRC's President.
References
External links
George Sarre's blogBiography on the website of the city of Paris
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1935 births
2019 deaths
People from Creuse
Politicians from Nouvelle-Aquitaine
French Section of the Workers' International politicians
Socialist Party (France) politicians
Citizen and Republican Movement politicians
Deputies of the 7th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 8th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 9th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 10th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 11th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
French city councillors
Mayors of arrondissements of Paris