It was by press release that the mayor of Carhaix, Christian Troadec, announced, this Tuesday afternoon, the death, at the age of 81, of Jean-Pierre Jeudy, who was the first magistrate of the city from 1977 to 1995. “He was a great builder mayor,” said the councilor, indicating that the city would pay him the tribute he deserves in the coming weeks. A public building could bear its name. “We will discuss it soon in municipal council,” he adds.
Several flagship achievements
First elected opposition to Carhaix, then general councilor of the canton in 1973, the brilliant speaker that was Jean-Pierre Jeudy was the mayor of the capital of the Poher for eighteen years. He was elected for the first time in 1977, at the head of a list of Union of the left, before being re-elected in 1983 and 1989. During these three mandates, several flagship achievements were born like the associative cinema, the Cinedix, the municipal library, the municipal music school, the home household of La Salette, inaugurated February 7, 1983 by Pierre Bérégovoy, Minister of Social Affairs, Minister of Social Affairs, Minister of Social Affairs, Minister of Social Affairs Without forgetting the crematorium (the first in Brittany, editor’s note). We also owe Jean-Pierre Jeudy the creation of the business nursery, as well as several sports facilities (the fighting room). Jean-Pierre Jeudy was also at the origin of the creation of the community of Poher communes, of which he became the first president in 1994.
Jean-Pierre Jeudy was born on January 26, 1944 in Condé-sur-Huisne (Orne). He grew up in the Paris region in a communist family before settling in Carhaix, where he was in turn teacher then professor of history geography at the college. Excluded from the Communist Party in 1987, he founded the united left for the Poher.
Iron arms in city council
His three mandates in the municipal council were marked by the fierce duel which opposed him, for almost two decades, to Jean Rohou, the notable of the right. Two well -soaked characters that everything opposed and whose showdown permanently marked Carhaisian life. “Jean-Pierre Jeudy loved the fight and never refused the obstacle. He knew too well that politics is first of all a question of balance of power, ”says Christian Troadec. Beaten in the 1995 municipal elections by André Le Roux (various right), Jean-Pierre Jeudy returned to combat six years later. Arrived in third position, he then joined Christian Troadec, making the PS-PC list led by the future president of the National Assembly Richard Ferrand at the same time. And while the president of the Vieilles Charrues settles in the mayor’s chair, the former councilor finds, until 2008, the presidency of the community of poher communes. If it continues a time to take an interest in local political life within the left front, even appearing even in the last position on the list “A real left for Carhaix” at the municipal elections of 2014, Jean-Pierre Jeudy then embraces another fight, that of the Palestinian cause, taking the presidency of the Breton center group of AFPS (Association France Palestine Solidarité) until recently.
“Large convictions”
“Man on the left, conviction, outstanding speaker, Jean-Pierre Jeudy will have marked the story of Carhaix,” says Christian Troadec. He will have marked the story he liked so much and of which he had done his job as a teacher. He also knew how to be the host with a joyful and very pleasant company, as his culture was great and his humor at the height of the power of his voice. Some people no longer like roughness and people who have things to say. He had great convictions that he knew how to say, he himself said he was not afraid of controversies and thought it was healthy for democracy, that it made it possible to advance the files. I liked his way of doing politics and what he was doing as conviction in him, ”he adds.
First elected from the opposition to Carhaix, then general councilor of the canton in 1973, this brilliant speaker was the mayor of the capital of the Poher for eighteen years. He was elected for the first time in 1977, at the head of a list of Union of the left, before being re -elected in 1983 and 1989.
Jean-Pierre Jeudy was also at the origin of the creation of the Community of Poher communes, of which he became the first president in 1994, before being beaten in 1995. He had found this post in 2001, after the victory of Christian Troadec, with whom he had made an alliance for the municipal.
