A figure of sport from Montpellier will lead, in the Hérault, the list of Carole Delga (PS) for the regional elections in Occitanie: Patrice Canayer, the coach of the MHB since 1994, announced his candidacy to the outgoing president.

The sixty-year-old, twice winner of the Handball Champions League and 14 times of the French Championship, approaches this campaign "with a lot of humility".

“I don't necessarily have all the codes, and you'll excuse me in advance,” said the MHB coach.

But I will try to learn quickly.

Patrice Canayer intends to put his “experience” and his “work force” “at the service of this region and its inhabitants”.

He had already supported Georges Frêche and Jean-Pierre Moure

But he will remain, whatever happens, coach and general manager of the Montpellier handball club.

"I will carry out my professional activity and political activity simultaneously," Patrice Canayer explained.

And first, the electoral campaign.

"And he will be present" on the list of the first, and on the list of the second round "of regional elections, said Carole Delga.

Whatever the configurations.

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This is not the first time that Patrice Canayer touches on politics.

He had given his support to Jean-Pierre Moure (PS), unsuccessful candidate for municipal elections in 2014. And he had been "support of Georges Frêche," he said.

I have political convictions that I have not hidden.

But this is not a support, it is a commitment.

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