To support Chantal Turin, who will quite naturally take over from Jean-Pierre Deriaz at the head of the Nyon prefecture with a 100% position, the Council of State has appointed Olivier Fargeon, at a rate of 50%. The latter is well known in the region since he served for ten years in the Municipality of Gland, as responsible for infrastructure and the environment.
Aged 53, married and father of two daughters, the one who made his career with CFF Immobilier, as manager of the major transport centers in French-speaking Switzerland, was chosen from among some forty files with very specific profiles. various.
Vaud accent
“Becoming a prefect is a big challenge for me and a chance that I did not want to miss. Because even if I put political life on hold three and a half years ago, this position of representative of the State is a nice way to get back to it by putting myself at the service of the municipalities, “notes Olivier Fargeon. If his Vaudois accent is a little less pronounced than that of Jean-Pierre Deriaz, who is retiring on May 31, it is because the future prefect, born in Geneva, is of French origin. “But I have lived in Gland since the age of 10 and have been naturalized since I was 18,” laughs the man who intends to put his PLR label on the shelf to defend the government’s vision.
If he was chosen “for his good knowledge of the institutions and his ability to unite his interlocutors”, dixit the Council of State, the former elected official relies on the department and on his future colleague to train for legal tasks, in particular criminal cases and hearings of the Court of leases, which occupy more and more the lieutenants of the State.
It is because of this overload that the Canton had allocated, shortly after the redistribution of the districts, an additional half-post to be shared between the districts of Nyon and Morges. But the latter had quickly passed entirely to Nyon, a more urban and densely populated district. A distribution that has not been questioned by the State Councilor Béatrice Métraux. “The prefecture of Morges can benefit from the reinforcement of other colleagues,” said his spokesperson, Laurence Jobin.
Created: 01.31.2020, 9:03 p.m.
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