Less than two months before the election of the next president of the District of Haute-Loire, a first list submitted applications on Monday, headed by Laurent Lerat. Accompanied by some members of his list, he presented his program.
Saturday June 15, a page will be turned in the District of Haute-Loire. After 28 years of presidency, Raymond Fournel will hand over the reins.
Less than two months before the election, a first list submitted applications, headed by Laurent Lerat, a former referee who became a federal delegate. At 56, the man from Nantes who joined Haute-Loire in 1997 is also a manager at the Vergongheon club. Accompanied by 17 other players in Altiligerian football, the former police officer who officiated for nearly thirty years in mainland France as well as overseas will therefore try to run for the presidency of the District.
If Laurent Lerat has now declared his intentions, it is also because Patrick Mathé, the former president of the Sauveteurs Brivois who was to lead this candidacy, had to give up due to health problems. Laurent Lerat succeeded him after being unanimously appointed.
Hear the big and small clubs
“I have enough free time to do it. And I tell myself that football had given me a lot, so it’s important that I give it back,” said the candidate. Its list, named “United for a new District”, aims to “bring together the clubs of Haute-Loire around numerous axes such as labeling, inclusion, unity, the fight against violence with in particular the creation of an ethics committee and rurality”.
This last theme is a major point of the program. The idea is “to dialogue and respond as best as possible to the expectations of each club in the department which differ according to size”.
For this, a system was imagined with three vice-presidents: Richard Leydier (ex-president of Dunières and vice-president of the Haut Pays du Velay group) would be in charge of the east of Haute-Loire, Damien Terle (Loudes ) from the center and Bernard Lescop (former president of Brioude and secretary of the referees commission) from the west.
Towards a two-list ballot?
Behind this, there is “a desire, to speak and listen to all the clubs”. “In talking with them, we realized that many saw the District as an institution with which they could not interact. This “rurality” program aims to respond to this,” explains Bernard Lescop.
After this candidacy, the hardest part begins for Laurent Lerat’s list: convincing the 100 clubs in the department to try to obtain the sufficient number of votes to win the election.
Indeed, another list, led by Laurent Réa, should become known soon. A candidacy which could lead to a two-list ballot, a first in 80 years. Saturday June 15 in Blavozy, the clubs will have 387 votes, distributed according to the number of licensees of each of them, to distribute.
Guillaume Chorin
The complete list
Laurent Lerat.?Vergongheon-Arvant. Patrick Mathe.? Brivois rescuers. Christophe Deleau.?Puy Foot. David Mialon. Puy Foot. Fabien Fournat. Le Pertuis. Damien Terle. Loudes. Julian Crevits. Blavozy. Dominique Challet. Lamothe. Hervé Besson. Saint-Georges-d’Aurac. Roland Peyrache. Montfaucon-Montregard. Bernard Lescop. Vergongheon-Arvant. Richard Leydier. Dunières/High Country of Velay. Michael Martin. District. Marion Chabal. Brivois rescuers. Celia De Araujo. Velay FC. Stéphane Peyrard. Saint-Didier/Saint-Just. Geoffrey Blondeau. US Vals. Gregory Sevenier. Brivois rescuers.
