“He had shown that the heart of the Vendée could also beat on the left“: it is with this sentence, not without importance, that the press release of the Elysee begins. Published this Sunday, December 12, two days after the death of Jacques Auxiette, the declaration of the Elysee palace, and therefore of the president of the Republic Emmanuel Macron, pays tribute to the former president of the Pays de la Loire region, who died this Friday evening following cardiac arrest at the age of 81.
Jacques Auxiette, a fervent socialist activist, was also mayor of La Roche-sur-Yon (Vendée) for a long time. “For thirty years, he breathed new life into all the arenas of Vendée politics.“according to the press release from the Élysée, which also speaks of Jacques Auxiette as”of a man of attachment and loyalty“, whether for his commune of La Roche-sur-Yon, as for the Pays de la Loire. He made two terms at the head of the region (from 2004 to 2015).
And because his sense of the state was not limited to his lands in the West, he still found time to get involved in national institutions, as administrator of the ENA in the 1980s or as president of the Groupement. of the authorities responsible for transport (GART) in the 90s “- The press release from the Élysée Palace, about Jacques Auxiette.
In a last paragraph, President Emmanuel Macron “welcomes the career of a regional elected representative of national scope “, while addressing “his heartfelt condolences “ to those close to Jacques Auxiette, to the Yonnais and to the inhabitants of the Pays de la Loire region.