Marcel Blanc

Blanc was born in Brenles on 12 March 1935 to a Huguenot family who took refuge in Switzerland after the Edict of Fontainebleau. After training to become a farmer, he took over a field in his hometown.^[3]

In 1957, Blanc was elected to the municipal council of Brenles as a member of the UDC. In 1970, he was elected to the Grand Council of Vaud and became president of the UDC in the Canton of Vaud. He then became vice-president of the UDC nation-wide.^[4]

Blanc was elected to the Council of State of Vaud in 1978, succeeding his fellow party member Marc-Henri Ravussin [fr].^[5] On 7 March 1982, he was re-elected to a second term, finishing second on the ballot behind Radical Democratic Party member Jean-Pascal Delamuraz.^[6] He was again re-elected in 1986 in the second round of elections.^[7] He was re-elected for a third time in 1990.^[8] In 1991, he resigned from his position, leaving office on 30 November.^[4]

During his mandate, Blanc was head of the Department of Public Works.^[9] He twice chaired the cantonal government, in 1982 and 1988.^[4] In 1991, the socialist Daniel Schmutz succeeded him as head of the public works department, while Pierre-François Veillon [fr] was elected to succeed him from the UDC and headed the Department of Finances.^[10]

Marcel Blanc died on 24 March 2023, at the age of 88.^[11]