Françoise de Veyrinas (4 September 1943 – 16 August 2008), born Gardey de Soos, was a French politician and Member of the European Parliament.

Biography

Elected to

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representing the UDF and the UMP uninterrupted since 1983, she was ''première adjointe'' ( "First Assistant") to her town from 1995 until 2008 and vice-president of the ''Communauté d'agglomération du Grand Toulouse'' ( loosely, "Community of the Conurbation of Greater Toulouse"). She sat on the Regional Mid-Pyrénées Council and then the General Council of Haute-Garonne. She was also a Member of the European Parliament after François Bayrou resigned. A specialist in social issues, she was briefly (May–November 1995) ''Secrétaire d'État aux Quartiers en difficulté'' ( "Secretary of State for Quarters in Difficulty") in the first Juppé government. Voted a member of the UDF-

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in 1993, she then failed to be elected in the legislative elections of 2002 and 2007. In 2008, though re-elected city councillor on the ticket of the outgoing mayor

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, she ended up in opposition to the new Socialist mayor,

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. From May 2003 until her death, de Veyrinas was president of the ''Conseil national des missions locales'' ( "National Council of Local Missions"). She died on 16 August 2008 at age 64, after a battle with cancer. She received many tributes and mayor Pierre Cohen came to her funeral.

Citizenship

*Regional delegate to the Women of Midi-Pyrénées (1979–1982 and 1986–1989) *Head of Maintenance at home elderly in Haute-Garonne (1983–1986) *''Chargée de mission'' for the Minister of Social Affairs, Health and City,

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(1994)

Political offices

*Regional Council of Midi-Pyrénées (1986–1992) *General Counsel of the Canton of Toulouse XII (1992–2001) *Member for Haute-Garonne's 6th constituency from 1993 to 1995 *Secretary of State for areas, with the Minister for Integration and the Fight against Exclusion in Alain Juppé's government in 1995 *MEP 2002 to 2004 *City Council of Toulouse in 1983 to 2008 *Deputy Mayor of Toulouse from 1995 to 2008 (mandates of

Dominique Baudis Dominique Baudis (; 14 April 1947 – 10 April 2014) was the French Defender of Rights (ombudsman). Formerly a journalist, politician and mayor of Toulouse, he had been a member of Liberal Democracy and later of the leading centre-right Union ...

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Honours

* Officier de la Legion d'honneur, awarded Friday 9 February 2007 * Officier de l'Ordre national du Mérite, awarded 31 December 2005

References

''This page was translated from its equivalent in the French Wikipedia on 19 July 2009''.

External links

* (automatically translated) �
AFP, 18 August 2008
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Her blog
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Profile on the French National Assembly Site
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