{"id":1388,"date":"2006-10-19T13:03:08","date_gmt":"2006-10-19T13:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.freedonia.fr\/blogWP\/?p=1388"},"modified":"2006-10-19T13:03:08","modified_gmt":"2006-10-19T13:03:08","slug":"tas-voulu-voir-vesoul-et-on-a-vu-vesoul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freedonia.fr\/blogWP\/?p=1388","title":{"rendered":"\u00ab… t’as voulu voir Vesoul et on a vu Vesoul\u00bb"},"content":{"rendered":"

C’est jeudi, c’est \u00e9lections. Comme suite \u00e0 un nombreux courrier, l’\u00e9pisode d’aujourd’hui est consacr\u00e9 \u00e0 la Franche-Comt\u00e9. R\u00e9gion ouvri\u00e8re, avec \u00e0 la fois une forte tradition chr\u00e9tienne et une histoire radicale-socialiste, elle a longtemps fait figure de bastion de la mod\u00e9ration. Elle est pourtant aujourd’hui, ici ou l\u00e0 (y compris sur la terre de mes anc\u00eatres, la famille Co), notamment dans les aires industrielles en reconversion comme on dit, un point d’ancrage du Front national.<\/p>\n

La g\u00e9opolitique r\u00e9gionale est, en apparence, assez facile \u00e0 lire: <\/p>\n

– sur les versants des Vosges (comme dans ce d\u00e9partement d’ailleurs) et du massif du Jura, la force traditionnelle des partis gaullistes depuis 1958.<\/p>\n

– une implantation puissante du PS \u00e0 Sochaux \/ Montb\u00e9liard, avec deux grands anciens (d\u00e9put\u00e9s depuis 1973 mais fraticidement battus en 2002), les Laurel et Hardy de Belfort, Raymond Forni et Jean-Pierre Chev\u00e8nement. Le premier fut tourneur chez Peugeot et pr\u00e9sident de l’Assembl\u00e9e nationale. Du second, qui ne se pr\u00e9sente plus, un des deux uniques bonnes blagues dans la vie de Jacques Faizant disait: \u00ab’Chevenne, n.f.: grosse t\u00eate’. Je le savais! Chev\u00e8nement, ce n’est pas un nom, c’est un adverbe.\u00bb Le chev\u00e8nementisme bat ici comme ailleurs de l’aile, avec les \u00e9checs des \u00e9lections de 2002 et 2004 (l’alliance PCF\/MRC n’a pas atteint le seuil n\u00e9cessaire pour fusionner aux r\u00e9gionales) et le d\u00e9part d’historiques comme Jean-Pierre Michel (un des p\u00e8res du pacs), qui ont fini par retourner au PS apr\u00e8s une scission sous le nom d’Association pour la gauche r\u00e9publicaine (AGR). <\/p>\n

Ce vote ouvrier court la vall\u00e9e du Doubs jusqu’\u00e0 Besan\u00e7on o\u00f9 se fait \u00e9lire l’ancienne sous-ministres des vieux, Paulette Guinchard-Kunstler, une ancienne militante du syndicalisme chr\u00e9tien, et o\u00f9 on avait parachut\u00e9 la ministre PSU Huguette Bouchardeau. La gauche \u00e9tait jadis forte, aussi, dans certains des pays du Jura, qui fut un temps la terre d’\u00e9lection de Voynet et, surtout, mais on ne sait le classer, de l’inoxydable Edgar Faure (\u00abce n’est pas la girouette qui tourne, c’est le vent qui change\u00bb), l’inventeur des \u00abmajorit\u00e9s d’id\u00e9es\u00bb (\u00e9galement appel\u00e9es IVe R\u00e9publique).
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\nIt’s Thursday, it’s election-day. As a follow-up to plentiful mail, today’s episode is about Franche-Comt\u00e9. A workers region, having both a strong Christian tradition and a Radical-Socialist history, it has long been a stronghold for moderates. However, there is today, here and there (including in my ancestors’ hometown of the Co Family), most notably in ‘reconversion’ industrial areas, a strong show of Front national. <\/p>\n

Regional geopolitics seems easy to read: <\/p>\n

– on the sides of the Vosges (also in the namesake d\u00e9partement) and of the Jura mountain, the traditional strength of Gaullist parties since 1958;<\/p>\n

– a powerful entrenchment of the Socialist Party in Sochaux \/ Montb\u00e9liard, with two big old men (MPs since 1973 but fraticidally beaten in 2002), the Laurel & Hardy of Belfort, Raymond Forni and Jean-Pierre Chev\u00e8nement. The first was a lineworker at Peugeot and speaker of the House. Of the second, not to be introduced, one of only two funny jokes of the late Jacques Faizant said: \u00ab\u00a0‘Chevenne, noun: a big head.’I *knew* it wasn’t a surname but an adverb!\u00a0\u00bb. Chev\u00e8nementism has been weakening here as elsewhere, with the failures in the votes of ’02 and ’04 (the alliance of Communists and Chev\u00e8nement’s party was below merging threshold in the regional election) and the departures of historical followers like Jean-Pierre Michel (one of the civil unions’ \u00ab\u00a0fathers\u00a0\u00bb). These went finally back to the Socialist Party, via a scission under the Association pour une Gauche R\u00e9publicaine (AGR) label. <\/p>\n

This workmen’s vote goes along the Doubs valley to Besan\u00e7on, where the former Oldguys undersecretary Paulette Guinchard-Kunstler, also a former Christian unions militant, is elected. This was also the \u00ab\u00a0parachuting\u00a0\u00bb spot for the PSU minister Huguette Bouchardeau. The left used also to be strong in certain parts of the Jura, once the electoral fiefdom of Voynet and, what is more (though you couldn’t say him right or left), of rustproof Edgar Faure ( \u00ab\u00a0it’s not the weathercock swirling, it’s the wind changing\u00a0\u00bb ), creator of \u00ab\u00a0idea majorities\u00a0\u00bb (a.k.a. IVth Republic). <\/p>\n

\n\"\u00abC'est<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

C’est jeudi, c’est \u00e9lections. Comme suite \u00e0 un nombreux courrier, l’\u00e9pisode d’aujourd’hui est consacr\u00e9 \u00e0 la Franche-Comt\u00e9. R\u00e9gion ouvri\u00e8re, avec \u00e0 la fois une forte tradition chr\u00e9tienne et une histoire radicale-socialiste, elle a longtemps fait figure de bastion de la mod\u00e9ration. Elle est pourtant aujourd’hui, ici ou l\u00e0 (y compris sur la terre de mes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-b2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freedonia.fr\/blogWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freedonia.fr\/blogWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freedonia.fr\/blogWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedonia.fr\/blogWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedonia.fr\/blogWP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedonia.fr\/blogWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freedonia.fr\/blogWP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedonia.fr\/blogWP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedonia.fr\/blogWP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}