Bruay-la-Buissière: former deputy mayor and local figure of the Socialist Party, Serge Janquin has died

Lhe political conscience of Serge Janquin, ex-deputy-mayor, was awakened when he was still a young child, in the heart of a town of Musicians of Bruay-la-Buissière which he has never forgotten.

From the city of musicians to the Palais Bourbon

Serge Janquin then joined the Socialist Party in 1971. From 1989, the young professor he was held a series of mandates: mayor of Labuissière then of Bruay-la-Buissière – following Marcel Wacheux – then deputy of the 10^e constituency of Pas-de-Calais from 1993. He was also vice-president of the regional council from 1992 to 1995, president of the very young SIVOM of the Bruaysis Community of which he was one of the main initiators, first quaestor of the National Assembly… In short, if he knows how to remain modest, he is a man who counts.

Because, at the same time, Serge Janquin is a heavyweight in the Socialist Party, at the departmental (federal) and national level. He thus led the “fed” of Pas-de-Calais, long the most powerful in the country, from 1997 to 2008. Although he held the reins, he still stood out from his predecessor and other tribune Daniel Percheron, who kept the boiling artesian pot strictly closed. The doors of the federal councils are then ajar to journalists.

Later, always faithful to his convictions, he opposed the Macron law that the government of Manuel Valls tried to have adopted by the Assembly using the famous article 49.3 of the Constitution. Before the Bruaysien was, like other emblematic local figures, “deemed to have resigned” from a Socialist Party in which very few have found themselves since then.

During the last municipal council of the Switaj area, in 2020, Serge Janquin, then deputy for declining health, said goodbye to public life. As a symbol before the victory of the National Rally in Bruay-La-Buissière – already in control of the circus – in the municipal elections. His last public appearance dates back to May 2022, during the funeral of André Delcourt, former mayor of Calonne-Ricouart and political comrade from the start.

The funeral of Serge Janquin will take place on Friday October 4, 2024 at 10:30 a.m. in the village hall of the Calonne-Ricouart town hall from where the body will be taken to the Vendin-lès-Béthune crematorium in family privacy.