Politics
The President of the General Council is Damien Alary of the Socialist Party.
| Party | Seats | |
|---|---|---|
| • | Socialist Party | 17 |
| Union for a Popular Movement | 9 | |
| • | French Communist Party | 8 |
| • | Miscellaneous Left | 6 |
| Far-left | 2 | |
| Miscellaneous Right | 2 | |
| New Centre | 1 | |
In the closely contested first round of the 2012 French Presidential elections, Gard was the only department to vote in the National Front candidate Marine Le Pen by a slim relative majority, with 25.51% of the vote. The incumbent President Sarkozy of the Union for a Popular Movement party received 24.86% of the vote, while Socialist Party candidate François Hollande received 24.11% of the vote share.
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“Politics is not an end, but a means. It is not a product, but a process. It is the art of government. Like other values it has its counterfeits. So much emphasis has been placed upon the false that the significance of the true has been obscured and politics has come to convey the meaning of crafty and cunning selfishness, instead of candid and sincere service.”
—Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933)