Politics
The President of the General Council is the Socialist Bernard Derosier.
| Party | seats | |
|---|---|---|
| • | Socialist Party | 43 |
| • | French Communist Party | 12 |
| Union for a Popular Movement | 10 | |
| Miscellaneous Right | 8 | |
| • | Miscellaneous Left | 3 |
| MoDem | 2 | |
| New Centre | 1 | |
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Famous quotes containing the word politics:
“It is not so much that women have a different point of view in politics as that they give a different emphasis. And this is vastly important, for politics is so largely a matter of emphasis.”
—Crystal Eastman (1881–1928)
“Of course politics is an interesting and engrossing thing. It offers no immutable laws, nearly always prevaricates, but as far as blather and sharpening the mind go, it provides inexhaustible material.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)
“I have come to the conclusion that the closer people are to what may be called the front lines of government ... the easier it is to see the immediate underbrush, the individual tree trunks of the moment, and to forget the nobility the usefulness and the wide extent of the forest itself.... They forget that politics after all is only an instrument through which to achieve Government.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)