Like Joshua around Jericho, Antoine Rufenacht had to turn many times around the town hall of Le Havre before bringing down this communist citadel of the sixties and seventies.
Deputy, general councilor, the young Gaullist activist was a candidate for the municipal elections for the first time in 1977. Defeated, he stood for re-election in 1983, then in 1989. And it was at the fourth attempt, in 1995, that he realized the dream of his life: becoming mayor of Le Havre.
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It was not for him to win a local trophy to make it the stepping stone of a national career.
But for the love of a city, his hometown where he was born on May 11, 1939, which missed his destiny, despite his status as the first French death, and did not know how to react to the industrial crisis.
These four attempts - followed by two re-elections - underline the endurance and solidity that characterized Antoine Rufenacht.
Like a good Norman, a good entrepreneur - he ran the family business
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