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  Languedoc Roussillon Goes Left Tuesday 30th March 2004    
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Jacques Blanc, ex Secreatry of State for Agriculture under Valery d'Estang, shared the fate of his mentor and was voted out after 18 years of running the Languedoc Roussillon Region. Blanc list, Union pour Languedoc Roussillon, crashed to 33.1% of the vote in the second round in the Languedoc after he failed to win the support of the Languedoc hunters, CPTN, and the centrist UDF.
George Freche, the long time mayor of Montpellier, with his Union Toute! list of Socialists, Communists and Greens rose to a surprising 51.7% on an increased turn out throughout the Languedoc.
The Front National, headed in the Languedoc by LePen's old school friend Alain Jamet, scored 15.72%, a much reduced score from April 2002 Presidencials.
In a system that favours the winning list Freche now heads a left wing team of 43, Blanc a rump of 16 and Jamet a mere 8.
The Languedoc Left strongest heartland in the region was the Aude, with 57.41%, stronger even than Freche's own Herault. The demographic weighting however means that while 7 votes on the Left are Audois 17 are from the Herault.
The agenda of the Languedoc Left is first to clear up the mess of corruption, politically motivated contracts and badly organised public finances inherited from the Blanc administration. The next six months will tell whether the Frech agenda of re-starting Air Litoral, extending the TGV, and greater economic and cultural co-operation and development with Catalonia, PACA, and Northern Italy pay off.

The Boys to watch in the new administration


Jean-Claude Gayssot. Head of the Communist(PCF) list, ancient Mininster of Transport.Vice-President of the region with responsibility for Transport. Can he use his old contacts to improve our public transport?
Yves Pietrasanta, Head of the Green(les Verts) List, ex-mayor of Meze. Surprise surprise he wants the enviroment Vice Presidents job.
Damien Alary. Socialist President of the Gard Department. Looks likely to get Agriculture.
Chrisian Bourquin, Socialist President of the Pyrenees-Oriental Department (Roussillon) VP Finance- sorting out Blanc's mess willl take some time.
Max Levita, Socialist, head of the old socialist group on the Region. ex-advisor to Claude Allegre when he was Minister for Education. Needs a reward for a long up hill struggle. VP in charge of Lycees (Departments look after Ecoles) in fact the biggest part of the Regions responsibilities.
And the Girl to watch..
Anne-Yvonne Le Dain,Socialist, adjoint to the Marie du Montpellier since 2001, a professional researcher by profession gets VP Professional Training. the second largest responsibility of the Region and an area almost totally ignored by Blanc.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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