Georges Sarre (26 November 1935 – 31 January 2019)
was a
French politician and leader of the
Citizen and Republican Movement.
Sarre was an early supporter of
and
François Mitterrand within the new
Socialist Party
Socialist Party is the name of many different political parties around the world. All of these parties claim to uphold some form of socialism, though they may have very different interpretations of what "socialism" means. Statistically, most of t ...
(PS), which he joined at the famous
Epinay Congress
The Epinay Congress was the third national congress of the French Socialist Party (''Parti socialiste'' or PS), which took place on 11, 12 and 13 June 1971, in the town of Épinay-sur-Seine, in the northern suburbs of Paris. During this congress, n ...
in 1971. He was the Socialist top candidate in the 1977
Paris municipal election but lost the election by a handful of votes to
Jacques Chirac.
He was elected
MEP in the
1979 European elections and was elected to the
French National Assembly for
Paris
Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), ma ...
in
1981
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. Between 1988 and 1993 he served as Secretary of State for Road and Fluvial Transportation in the governments led by
Michel Rocard
Michel Rocard (; 23 August 1930 – 2 July 2016) was a French politician and a member of the Socialist Party (PS). He served as Prime Minister under François Mitterrand from 1988 to 1991 during which he created the ''Revenu minimum d'ins ...
,
Édith Cresson
Édith Cresson (; née Campion; born 27 January 1934) is a French politician from the Socialist Party. She served as Prime Minister of France from 1991 to 1992, the first woman to do so. She was the only woman to be prime minister until 2022, whe ...
and
Pierre Bérégovoy
Pierre Eugène Bérégovoy (; 23 December 1925 – 1 May 1993) was a French politician who served as Prime Minister of France under President François Mitterrand from 2 April 1992 to 29 March 1993. He was a member of the Socialist Party and ...
. He later served, between 1995 and 2008 as the Mayor of the
11th arrondissement of Paris.
In the left's
1993 debacle, he was re-elected in
Paris' 6th constituency, the only constituency not won by the right in that election. That same year, disagreeing with the Socialist Party's neo-liberal derive, he joined
in creating the
Citizens' Movement (MDC). The MDC became the Republican Pole in 2002 before adopting its current name, Citizen and Republican Movement (MRC). He supported Chevènement's candidacy in the
2002 presidential election and prepared a second Chevènement candidacy in the
2007 presidential election, but Chevènement did not run, instead supporting the Socialist candidate
Ségolène Royal
Marie-Ségolène Royal (; born 22 September 1953) is a French politician who was the Socialist Party candidate for the Presidency of France in the 2007 election.
Royal was president of the Poitou-Charentes Regional Council from 2004 to 201 ...
by the first round.
He was defeated in his constituency by the Socialist
Danièle Hoffman-Rispal
Danièle Hoffman-Rispal (22 June 1951 – 16 April 2020) was a member of the National Assembly of France. She represented the city of Paris, and was a member of the parliamentary group
A parliamentary group, parliamentary party, or pa ...
in the
2002 French legislative election. However, ahead of the
2007 presidential election and
2007 legislative election in which the MRC supported Royal's candidacy in return for the Socialist Party's endorsement of Sarre's candidacy in the
Creuse's 2nd constituency in the June legislative election. Despite the lack of PS opposition, he lost the runoff to UMP incumbent
Jean Auclair.
He was often considered the co-leader of the MRC along with Chevènement, although Chevènement is currently the MRC's President.
References
External links
George Sarre's blogBiography on the website of the city of Paris
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1935 births
2019 deaths
People from Creuse
Politicians from Nouvelle-Aquitaine
French Section of the Workers' International politicians
Socialist Party (France) politicians
Citizen and Republican Movement politicians
Deputies of the 7th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 8th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 9th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 10th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 11th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
French city councillors
Mayors of arrondissements of Paris