"Have to implement local policy that contributed to develop in a Department, I find this very healthy." Senior officials should to deal thus with the real. "With his appointment to the Directorate-General of Paris Habitat-OPH institution better known under its former name of Opac de Paris , Pierre-René Lemas was offered by Bertrand Delanoë a golden opportunity to lead. He was the head of the General Directorate of town planning and habitat (STATIONING) construction, from 1998 to 2000, now finds itself, by the grace of the Mayor of Paris, at the helm of a fleet of nearly 120,000 social housing in the capital and its close suburbs.
This is not the first time that this warm prefect to the whole southern prolixity going from theory to practice. Since its inception under the aegis of Gaston Defferre and Pierre Joxe his two mentors place Beauvau, this "French of Algeria" follows closely all the reforms of our territorial administration. Several also bear paw.
"Macroeconomic" experiences
After having led the Office of the Secretary of State in charge of local government in 1988, and then served as Director General of these same communities at the Ministry of the Interior, he became the number two of the Datar by Charles Pasqua, in which he lends his pen to write the law of 1995 on the management and development of the territory. Became the same year Director of habitat and the construction Ministry of equipment, it the merges with that of town planning to create the STATIONING. Experiences "macroeconomic" than his subsequent passages in Prefecture enable it to confront the reality principle.
In 2003, Nicolas Sarkozy, then master of the place Beauvau place, sends it to Ajaccio. Prefect of Corsica: not really a sinecure for that which had been during the previous three years the Director General of administration at the Ministry of the Interior, that is the pattern of the prefects. In fact, Pierre-René Lemas know hot moments, such as the diversion of the "Pascal-paoli" ferry in 2005 or the rocket attack which it was subjected. In is no less the prefect that remained longest in position on the Isle of beauty, which he retains an excellent memory. The following assignment in Metz as Prefect of Lorraine will be more quiet but also loving. On the menu: management of the après-sidérurgie and the après-mines, the State-region plan contract negotiation, etc.
Despite an eclectic claimed in the choice of "his" Ministers he worked also for the Chirac supporter Bernard Pons for the Communist Jean-Claude Gayssot, for the Socialist Louis Besson that for the UMP Pierre-André Périssol... , prefect Lemas will not spared "spoil system" after the legislative elections of June 2007. Named "off target" in the wake of the 2 purview, it is offered the reins of the "Official Journal", this distant descendant of Théophraste Renaudot "Gazette". The acceleration of the transformation of this old house in dematerialised data disseminator and the search for a partnership with the "Documentation française" occupied it and even "passionate" fourteen months. But we can the feel even more uncomfortable in the costume of social landlord in pattern of press.