Mayor of Dunkirk from 1989 to 2014, a pillar of the Socialist Party in the North, he was Minister of François Mitterrand on many occasions. He died on April 9, at the age of 75.
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Several times minister of François Mitterrand, Mayor of Dunkerque for twenty-five years, Michel Delebarre died on Saturday, April 9, in a Lille EHPAD, at the age of 75. In recent months, he was very weakened by a serious diabetes. The tributes have multiplied, Martine Aubry greeting a “great figure from the left of the North” and former President François Hollande a “authentic European social democrat”. “It will exemplay the French Republic exemplary his life,” wrote Emmanuel Macron, in a statement.
Son of a real estate agent, Honorary Reserve Commander, Michel Delebarre born on April 27, 1946, in Bailleul (North). Graduate of Graduate Geography, he married Jeanine Debeyre, daughter of the Rector of Lille, Guy Debeyre, whom he knew in the third class and with whom he will have a girl, Caroline. His father-in-law brings him in 1968 to the Northern Pas-de-Calais Expansion Committee. And he is quickly conquered by his qualities: “He devoured the files; he equated as a sponge.” In July 1970, the young geographer, who describes himself as “Besogneux because little talented”, strikes at the door of Pierre Mauroy , General Counsel. This is the beginning of a long companionship. Very quickly, he has a “craving of power” and, in the north, it is the socialists who hold orders. His mother hoped that “he would not do politics”, but in 1974 he adheres to the Socialist Party (PS).
Prefect Off Frame
Secretary General of the City of Lille in 1979, Michel Delebarre became, on 27 May 1981, responsible for the Prime Minister. It follows police affairs and secret services. With her serious air who is struggling to hide her joviality, he has easy and warm contact but takes pleasure in getting rid of small secrets in the shadows. It is appreciated by its calm way of “Mouliner” delicate files. On May 28, 1982, Maroy actually his cabinet director and he will play a discreet role in decentralization. It deals with equal to the world of prefects, which it dreams of joining. One of his greatest joys is to be named, the 1 May 1983, prefect out of frame.
On July 19, 1984, Michel Delebarre was appointed until March 20, 1986, Minister of Labor, Employment and Vocational Training in the Laurent Fabius government. Bulimic work, he shows up at the task and trusted relationships with the unions. He will then, under the government of Michel Rocard, Minister of Social Affairs and Employment (May-June 1988), then Minister of Transport (June 1988-December 1990) – he will manage conflicts at RATP and in the Air Navigation -, and he will get his Marshal Staff as Minister of State, Minister of the City Under the Government of Edith Cresson (December 1990-May 1991), to which he will add (from May 1991 to April 1992) the development Of the territory, the title he will retain under that of Pierre Bérégovoy, in charge of the public service. We then speak of this adept of the consensus, which plays the map of the renovation of the PS and hates the battles of currents: “You have to do it, I do not know how to get angry, I am a great factor of appeasement.” / p>
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