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:
“The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous.... Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead.”
—Harold Rosenberg (1906–1978)
“In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.”
—Cecil Parkinson (b. 1932)
“Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.”
—Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (1870–1924)