Marcel Blanc

Marcel Blanc (12 March 1935 – 24 March 2023) was a Swiss farmer and politician of the Democratic Union of the Centre (UDC). He served on the Council of State of Vaud from 1978 to 1991 as head of the Department of Public Works.

Biography 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.

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.

Blanc was elected to the Council of State of Vaud in 1978, succeeding his fellow party member . 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. He was again re-elected in 1986 in the second round of elections. He was re-elected for a third time in 1990. In 1991, he resigned from his position, leaving office on 30 November. He twice chaired the cantonal government, in 1982 and 1988.

Marcel Blanc died on 24 March 2023, at the age of 88.