Jacques Blanc (born 21 October 1939) is a French politician and former
senator
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for the
Lozère
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department. He is also mayor of
La Canourgue
La Canourgue (; oc, La Canorga) is a commune in the Lozère department in southern France. It is sometimes referred to in French as "''La petite Venise lozérienne''", the ''Little Venice of Lozère''.
The commune served as a location for the 2 ...
and president of the
Aubrac-Lot-Causse ''
communauté de communes
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''. He is a member of the
Union for a Popular Movement
The Union for a Popular Movement (french: link=no, Union pour un mouvement populaire, ; UMP, ) was a centre-right political party in France that was one of the two major contemporary political parties in France along with the centre-left Social ...
(UMP).
Blanc was president of the
Languedoc-Roussillon
Languedoc-Roussillon (; oc, Lengadòc-Rosselhon ; ca, Llenguadoc-Rosselló) is a former administrative region of France. On 1 January 2016, it joined with the region of Midi-Pyrénées to become Occitania. It comprised five departments, and ...
Region
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from 1986 to 2004. His final mandate proved controversial, as the
Socialist Party
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won more seats (although short of an absolute majority) in the
1998 elections for the regional council than Blanc's
RPR list: Blanc had to rely on the votes of the far-right
National Front councillors to remain president.
[.]
Blanc was also ''député'' for the 2nd district of Lozère (the western part of the department) in the
National Assembly
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from 2 April 1973 until his elevation to the Senate on 1 October 2001, except for the period 29 March 1977 – 31 March 1978 when he served in
Raymond Barre
Raymond Octave Joseph Barre (; 12 April 192425 August 2007) was a French centre-right politician and economist. He was a Vice President of the European Commission and Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs under three presidents ( Rey, ...
's government as Secretary of State for Agriculture. On 25 September 2011, he lost the senatorial reelection (he was elected in 2001). Alain Bertrand, the leftist Mayor of
Mende, Lozère
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, was elected in his place.
References
External links
Page on the Senate websitePage on the National Assembly website
1939 births
Living people
People from Rodez
Independent Republicans politicians
Republican Party (France) politicians
Liberal Democracy (France) politicians
Union for French Democracy politicians
Union for a Popular Movement politicians
French Senators of the Fifth Republic
Recipients of the Olympic Order
Senators of Lozère
Presidents of the European Committee of the Regions
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