On 10 May 2010, on the occasion of MSA’s elective general assembly, 476 delegates representing MSA local funds elected the Central Fund’s new Board of Administration. The latter then met to elect from among its members MSA President, Gerard Pelhate. This freshly elected board held its first meeting on 3rd June, launching the works of a new five-year mandate.

This final step represents the culmination of the democratic process, initiated with the election of MSA local delegates from 5 to 20 January 2010, after which 25,820 delegates have been directly elected by the insured people, following the “one man, one voice” mutualist principle. Then each of the 35 MSA local funds proceeded, amongst these local delegates, to the election of their boards of administration, all of them representing together 1,071 administrators. Then representatives from these 35 local boards attended on 20 May the abovementioned General Assembly.

Gerard Pelhate is a milk producer from Brittany and he has been involved into MSA’s actions for a long time. Member of Ille-et-Vilaine local fund’s board since 1984, he became its president in 1994. He has been a member of the Central Fund’s board since 1999 before being elected MSA President at the national level in 2005.

For this new five-year mandate, Mr Pelhate will work with a strongly renewed board (50% of new members), composed of elected representatives of the first electoral college (independent farmers), second college (salaried workers), third college (employers) and family associations. This composition is representative of the diversity of the populations covered by MSA.