Philippe Madrelle, senator and former socialist president of the General Council of Gironde, died Tuesday, August 27, at the age of 82, in Bordeaux.
The senator and former socialist president of the General Council of Gironde, Philippe Madrelle, died Tuesday at the age of 82 in Bordeaux, we learned from the county council.
This former political heavyweight in the South West spent 35 years as president of the General Council of Gironde, from 1976 to 2015, with three years of interruption from 1985 to 1988.
Philippe Madrelle was still a senator. He had been elected for the first time in 1980 and has been re-elected ever since. "Philippe Madrelle, a zealous decentralizer, has largely contributed to the evolution of the Girondin and Aquitaine political landscape, which until then was mainly anchored to the right," the departmental council wrote in a statement, describing the elected official as "a strong supporter of the small communes, the Département. and the right balance between rural and urban areas " .
President of the Aquitaine Region from 1981 to 1985
Born in Saint-Seurin-of-Cursac (Gironde), Philippe Madrelle was engaged very young to the socialist party.
Professor of English, he was elected for a first term as a city councilor in 1965 in Ambarès-et-Lagrave, near Bordeaux, and at the same time became substitute for the deputy of the fourth district of the Gironde, René Cassagne.
Elected general councilor of Carbon-Blanc in the north-eastern suburbs of Bordeaux in 1969 then city councilor of the city, he became the mayor in 1976, as well as president of the departmental council of the Gironde, then the youngest in France.
Philippe Madrelle had been deputy for Gironde for twelve years, from 1968 to 1980, and president of the Aquitaine Region from 1981 to 1985.
The first tributes
François Hollande pays tribute to "a great elected" on Twitter.
With the disappearance of Philippe Madrelle, the Republic loses today a great elected. He has been ambitious all his life for his department, the Gironde, and for equality between the territories. He did honor to socialism. I address my loving thoughts to his loved ones.
- François Hollande (@fhollande) August 27, 2019Manuel speaks of a "socialist who managed and transformed" .
An extraordinary anchorage, a loyalty to a territory, a longevity difficult to imagine today ... a socialist who managed and transformed. His experience will be missed. My condolences to his family and his socialist friends in Gironde and the Senate. https://t.co/5boqfSIS1N
- Manuel Valls (@manuelvalls) August 27, 2019Share this article
Death of Philippe Madrelle, Senator and former PS President of the Gironde Ouest-France departmentENLARGE
