According to information from ProgressAnne-Marie Comparini, former president of the Rhône-Alpes region and originally from Vaucluse, died last night, at the age of 77.
According to our colleagues, the former elected official died during the night from Saturday to Sunday, at the Édouard-Herriot hospital in Lyon.
President thanks to the votes of the left
Originally from Orange, she was elected to the presidency of the Rhône-Alpes region in 1999, after the invalidation of the contested election of Charles Millon by the Council of State. She was elected thanks to the votes of the left and the elected representatives of the UDF who no longer supported Charles Millon since he had accepted the votes of the elected representatives of the National Front to be elected president.
She will subsequently be beaten in the regional elections of 2004, at the end of her only mandate at the head of the Region, by the socialist Jean-Jack Queyranne.
A figure of the UDF (Union for French Democracy), she really began in politics a few years earlier, during her election to the regional council of Rhône-Alpes in 1986. She was also a deputy for Rhône between 2002 and 2007.
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