She is a politician who left her mark on Lyon and the Rhône-Alpes region which has just passed away. Anne-Marie Comparini died at the age of 77, we learned Progress this Sunday, January 5.
Originally from Vaucluse, she began her career as a parliamentary assistant to Raymond Barre, to whom she was deputy at Lyon town hall between 1995 and 2001.
She succeeded Charles Millon in 1999 as head of the Region.
Joined the UDF, Anne-Marie Comparini truly made her entry into politics a few years earlier, during her election to the Rhône-Alpes regional council in 1986. Re-elected in 1992, she took over as president in 1999, after the invalidation by the Council of State of the election of Charles Millon.
She was elected thanks to the votes of the entire left and those of UDF elected officials who no longer supported Charles Millon since he accepted, during the 1998 regional elections, the votes of the National Front.
Fratricidal legislative election in 2002
At the same time, in 2002 she launched into the legislative race by running in 1re Rhône constituency. A fratricidal election which pits him against the outgoing UDF deputy Bernadette Isaac-Sibille.
After obtaining the nomination of the UMP and the UDF, Anne-Marie Comparini finished first in the first round, twenty points ahead of her rival, and ended up winning in the second round against the socialist Jean-Louis Touraine.
After the victories will come the defeats. Beaten by the socialist Jean-Jack Queyranne in the 2004 regional elections, she also lost her seat as deputy in 2007, eliminated in the first round by Michel Havard, who obtained the nomination of the UMP. The same year, she announced her withdrawal from political life, nevertheless completing her mandate as regional councilor until 2010.
