Marie-Marguerite Dufay, best known as Marie-Guite Dufay (born 21 May 1949), is a French politician of the

Socialist Party Socialist Party is the name of many different political parties around the world. All of these parties claim to uphold some form of socialism, though they may have very different interpretations of what "socialism" means. Statistically, most of t ...

(PS) who serves as president of the

regional council of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté The Regional Council of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté (french: Conseil régional de Bourgogne-Franche-Comté) is the deliberative assembly of the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. Marie-Guite Dufay of the Socialist Party (PS) is the current presid ...

Political career

Dufay was first elected to the

Besançon Besançon (, , , ; archaic german: Bisanz; la, Vesontio) is the prefecture of the department of Doubs in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. The city is located in Eastern France, close to the Jura Mountains and the border with Switzer ...

city council in 1989. Six years later, she was appointed as deputy mayor of Besançon (1995 to 2008). In the

2004 Franche-Comté regional election A regional election took place in Franche-Comté, France on 21 and 28 March 2004, along with all other regions. Raymond Forni Raymond Forni (20 May 1941 – 5 January 2008) was a French Socialist politician. Biography The son of an Ital ...

, she was second in the Socialist List just after

Raymond Forni Raymond Forni (20 May 1941 – 5 January 2008) was a French Socialist politician. Biography The son of an Italian immigrant from Piedmont, Forni was born in Belfort, in 1941. His father died when he was 11. At 17, he had to stop studying, a ...

. After the death of President Raymond Forni, she was elected by the

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as President of the Region. She won the nomination to be the next socialist candidate for President of Franche-Comté in 2010. Ahead of the 2017 presidential election, Dufay endorsed Emmanuel Macron.Élection présidentielle : Marie-Guite Dufay officialise son soutien à Emmanuel Macron
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'', 5 April 2017.

References

External links

Biography of Marie-Marguerite Dufay
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