Françoise de Veyrinas
Françoise de Veyrinas (4 September 1943 – 16 August 2008), born Gardey de Soos, was a French politician and Member of the European Parliament. Biography. Elected to Toulouse representing the UDF and the UMP uninterrupted since 1983, she was "première adjointe" ( "First Assistant") to her town from 1995 until 2008 and vice-president of the "Communauté d'agglomération du Grand Toulouse" ( loosely, "Community of the Conurbation of Greater Toulouse"). She sat on the Regional Mid-Pyrénées Council and then the General Council of Haute-Garonne. She was also a Member of the European Parliament after François Bayrou resigned. A  specialist in social issues, she was briefly (May–November 1995) "Secrétaire d'État aux Quartiers en difficulté" ( "Secretary of State for Quarters in Difficulty") in the first Juppé government. Voted a member of the UDF-CDS in 1993, she then failed to be elected in the legislative elections of 2002 and 2007. In 2008, though re-elected city councillor on the ticket of the outgoing mayor Jean-Luc Moudenc, she ended up in opposition to the new Socialist mayor, Pierre Cohen. From May 2003 until her death, de Veyrinas was president of the "Conseil national des missions locales" ( "National Council of  Local Missions"). She died on 16 August 2008 at age 64, after a battle with cancer. She received many tributes and mayor Pierre Cohen came to her funeral. References. "This page was translated from in the French Wikipedia on 19 July 2009".