Pierre de Saintignon, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Pierre de Saintignon

French politician

Date of Birth: 22-May-1948

Place of Birth: Angers, Pays de la Loire, France

Date of Death: 09-Mar-2019

Profession: politician

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

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Pierre de Saintignon (22 May 1948 – 9 March 2019) was a French politician.
He was a member of the French Socialist Party (Parti Socialiste or PS) since 1967.
He was elected councilor to the Lille municipality in 1989, 1995, 2001, 2008 and 2014, the first two terms under Pierre Mauroy and the other three under Martine Aubry.
From 2001, he was the First Deputy-Mayor, in charge of finance, economic development and military matters.
In 1998, 2004 and 2010 he was elected councilor the Regional Council of Nord-Pas-de-Calais, where he sat as first vice-president, in charge of economic development.
Most of his political career was as an unofficial chief of staff, rather than as a foreground person.
He was chosen to lead the PS list for the 2015 regional elections that were held on 6 and 13 December 2015. Since the polls were not good (below 20% for the first step and below 33% for the second), an alleged lack of notoriety had been put forward as a possible explanation.
In this context, an experiment was launched by the Nord Littoral newspaper in order to measure if the candidate was sufficiently well known to deserve an entry in the French Wikipedia.
The result was a controversy that has been covered by the major national newspapers. Preferring to finally withdraw due to poor results in the first round, Pierre de Saintignon was forced to play only the role of an unofficial advisor to the Haut-de-France region's president. Pierre de Saintignon died on 9 March 2019.