André Delelis

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Andre Delelis

André Delelis (born May 23, 1924 in Cauchy-à-la-Tour , Department Pas-de-Calais ; † September 4, 2012 in Lens , Department Pas-de-Calais) was a French politician of the Section française de l'Internationale ouvrière (SFIO) and later the Parti socialiste (PS), who was a member of the National Assembly from 1967 to 1981 , Minister of Commerce and Crafts from 1981 to 1983 and a member of the Senate from 1983 to 1992 .

Life

Professional activities and union official

Delelis was the son of the miner Eusèbe Delelis, who later was secretary in the mayor's office of Cauchy-à-la-Tour and an active member of the Section française de l'Internationale ouvrière (SFIO), as well as the grocer Lucienne Flahaut, whose father René Flahaut between 1919 and in 1929 was mayor of Cauchy-à-la-Tour. He first attended primary school in Cauchy-à-la-Tour and in 1935, at the age of eleven, became a member of the Jeunesses socialistes , the SFIO's youth association. After finishing primary school, he moved to the Collège in Auchel in 1936 . After France was liberated from the German occupation forces in World War II , he succeeded his father as secretary in the mayor's office of Cauchy-à-la-Tour.

In 1945 Delelis joined the trade union federation CGT ( Confédération générale du travail ) as a member and in 1947 switched to the resulting Confédération générale du travail-Force ouvrière (CGT-FO), which wanted to evade the dominance of the Parti communiste français (PCF). In both organizations he held the position of local union secretary in Auchel, before becoming secretary of the union of public service employees and nursing staff (Fédération Force ouvrière des personnels des services publics et des services de santé) in the Pas-de department from 1948 to 1955 -Calais was. In 1950 he gave up his post as the municipal secretary of Cauchy-à-la-Tour and became a secretary in the mayor's office of Lens, before he began working as a sales representative in La Madeleine in 1952. At the same time he became a member of the Secretary of the Trade Union Confederation in the North Department in 1952 .

Party official and local politician

At the same time, Delelis joined the Section française de l'Internationale ouvrière (SFIO) as a member and was also secretary of the SFIO of Lens between 1958 and 1965. In addition, he became a member of the Federal Executive Commission of the SFIO in the Pas-de-Calais department in 1959 and then between 1961 and 1981 a member of the executive office there and at the same time from 1961 to 1972 Second Secretary of the SFIO in the Pas-de-Calais department.

During this time he began his political career in local politics in Lens when he was elected in March 1959 on a joint list of the SFIO-MRP ( Mouvement républicain populaire ) as a member of the municipal council and vice-mayor of Lens. In 1962 he was also elected a member of the General Council of the Pas-de-Calais department for the canton of Lens-Nord-Ouest , which consists of Lens and Loos-en-Gohelle , and held this function until 1982. After Ernest Schaffner's death , Delelis was elected mayor of Lens on December 21, 1966 as his successor .

Member of the National Assembly

Election 1967

As Schaffner's successor, Delelis ran for the Fédération de la gauche démocrate et socialiste (FDGS) in the elections in March 1967 in the 13th  constituency of the Pas-de-Calais department for the first time for a seat in the National Assembly after the mayor of Loison-sous -Lens , Lucien Harmant , was a piggyback candidate for conductors in October 1966. In the first ballot on March 5, 1967, Delelis won 15,309 of the 39,122 votes cast, so that he missed an absolute majority with 39.1 percent. In the second ballot on March 12, 1967, he won 26,551 votes (71.7 percent) and could thus clearly oppose the candidate of the PCF, the General Council and Mayor of Sallaumines , Jules Tell, who received 15,187 votes, as well as against the candidate of Enforce the Gaullist Union des Démocrates pour la Ve République (UDR), Gaston Van Brabant, who received 10,484 votes.

After moving into the Palais Bourbon , Delelis became a member of the FDGS parliamentary group and initially a member of the Committee on Culture, Families and Social Affairs (Commission des affaires culturelles, familiales et sociales) , before becoming a member of the Committee on Constitutional Law on April 4, 1968, Legislation and general administration of the republic (Commission des lois constitutionnelles, de la législation et de l'administration générale de la République) .

Re-elected in 1968

After the dissolution of the National Assembly in the wake of the unrest of May 1968 , he ran again in his constituency. In the first ballot on June 23, 1968, he was with 15,157 votes (39.8 percent) he was again ahead of the UDR candidate, Gaston Van Brabant, and the PCF candidate, Jules Tell, who received 11,312 votes. Tell renounced a candidacy in the second ballot on June 30, 1968, so that Delelis was a candidate for the political left . In this ballot, he was able to prevail with 23,612 votes (65.9 percent) clearly against Van Brabant, who received 12,200 votes (34.1 percent). His piggyback candidate was Paul Beaufils, the mayor of Billy-Montigny .

In August 1968, Delelis, as mayor of Lens, together with the socialist mayor of Liévin , Henri Darras , and the communist mayor of Avion , Léandre Letoquart , founded the District de Lens-Liévin , an association of municipalities to promote the interests of these mining towns, of which he was president stayed until 1998. At the same time he was President of the Association of Mining Cities (Association des communes minières) and Vice-President of the Association of Mayors of the Pas-de-Calais Department, both of whom also wanted to limit the social and political effects after the end of coal mining and called for economic realignment.

In the National Assembly he was again first a member of the Committee on Constitutional Law, Legislation and General Administration of the Republic and then on April 3, 1969 a member of the Industry and Trade Committee (Commission de la production et des échanges) . In the period that followed, he took an active part in various debates dealing with problems in the mining regions, the pensions of former miners, the development of mining towns, and health and safety regulations in mines.

In addition, he was re-elected as a member of the General Council of the Pas-de-Calais Department in 1970 and again as Mayor of Lens on March 14, 1971. His local electoral list with 12,419 votes clearly prevailed against the list of the PCF by Marcel Barrois (3,602 votes) and the UDR list by Gaston Van Brabant, which received only 1,812 votes.

Re-elected in 1973

In the subsequent elections, Delelis was elected in the first ballot on March 4, 1973 with 20,378 of the 39,954 votes cast, so that he received a narrow absolute majority of 51 percent. He was well ahead of the communist Jules Tell (11,159 votes), Raoul Lamand from the Union des Républicains de progrès (URP), who received 5,708 votes, Jacques Lallart from the Mouvement réformateur (MR) with 1,947 votes, and Jean Cauchefer from the Trotskyist Lutte ouvrière (LO), who only got 762 votes. At the same time, he was a member of the regional council of the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region , where he was both secretary and chairman of the PS group .

After his return to the Palais Bourbon, the seat of the National Assembly, he was again a member of the Committee on Industry and Trade and, on June 28, 1974, also a member of a commission of inquiry to investigate the business practices of oil companies in France. In addition, he dealt in inquiries with, among other things, the situation of workers in the textile industry, but also with the strike of the miners in Courrières . A further inquiry, in which the necessity of the restructuring of the mining regions was called for, led on April 12, 1977 to the amendment of the mining law (Code minier) . On fundamental political issues, he and his parliamentary group voted against the government statements by Prime Ministers Pierre Messmer , Jacques Chirac and Raymond Barre . In European politics, he voted on June 21, 1977 for the election of members of the European Parliament by general election, which paved the way for the 1979 European elections .

Delelis supported the candidacy of François Mitterrand in the presidential elections in France in 1974 and was elected to the board of the PS in February 1975 at the party congress of the Parti socialiste in Pau and in 1976 also a member of the general council of the Pas-de-Calais department. In 1977, following the tradition of the struggle against the PCF in the mining regions, he rejected a joint list of a union of the left with the communists. He himself was confirmed in his office as Mayor of Lens, but resigned his membership in the PS executive committee, because his negative attitude towards the alliance with the PCF was criticized there.

Re-elected in 1978

In the elections to the National Assembly, Delelis did not succeed in being elected in the first ballot on March 12, 1978, but in the second ballot on March 19, 1978 with 32,011 votes, he won an absolute majority of 72.7 percent and thus 12,000 votes more than in the first ballot. He again benefited from the waiver of the PCF's candidate, Jules Tell, who received 13,765 votes in the first ballot. As a result, he was able to clearly prevail against his rival candidate from the Rassemblement pour la République (RPR), Jean-René Le Reste, who received 12,025 votes (27.3 percent) in the second ballot.

He then became a member of the Committee on Industry and Commerce again, before becoming a member of the Committee on National Defense and the Armed Forces (Commission de la défense nationale et des forces armées) in May 1980 . In this fifth legislative period he again stood up for the development of the mining regions and the mining industry. He also criticized the slow development of the hospital population in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region. In addition, he largely voted against the government of Prime Minister Raymond Barre, such as on December 18, 1980 against the draft of the Security and Freedom Act submitted by Justice Minister Alain Peyrefitte .

At the PS party convention in April 1979, Delelis supported the alliance between François Mitterrand and Michel Rocard and Pierre Mauroy .

Minister of Commerce and Crafts 1981 to 1983

Prime Minister Pierre Mauroy appointed Delelis Minister for Trade and Crafts in his government in 1981

After Mitterrand's victory in the presidential election on May 10, 1981 , Delelis was appointed Minister of Commerce and Crafts (Ministre du Commerce et de l'Artisanat) in his first cabinet by Prime Minister Mauroy on May 21, 1981 . In March 1982 Philippe Séguin called for the minister to resign.

In the subsequent elections on June 14, 1981, he was re-elected as a member of the National Assembly in the first ballot with an absolute majority of 22,160 votes (55.7 percent). He was able to clearly prevail against the PCF candidate Jules Tell, who received 9,421 votes (23.7 percent), as well as Maurice Chevalier, who as a joint candidate of the RPR and Union pour la démocratie française (UDF) 7,374 votes (18 , 6 percent).

After Mauroy appointed him Minister of Trade and Crafts in his second cabinet on June 22, 1981 , he resigned his mandate in the National Assembly on July 24, 1981 on the basis of Article 23 of the French Constitution of 1958 , following his replacement -Candidate Jean-Claude Bois , who was also his deputy as Vice-Mayor of Lens.

In 1982 Delelis presented a bill to encourage spouses of artisans and traders in family businesses, which was adopted on July 10, 1982. This law aimed at strengthening and developing the cooperation of spouses in family businesses, but also their income and rights, by promoting the rights of businesses and social security for both spouses. At the same time, he presented another draft law on vocational training in craft businesses, which was adopted on December 23, 1982. This draft law introduced the obligation for the owners of craft businesses to attend appropriate courses before taking over the business, and also modified the funding rules for further training through a fixed fee for the chambers of crafts. The introduction of insurance funds primarily served to finance further training measures to support the craftsmen, their unpaid spouses and their other family members.

During this time, Delelis received the chairman of the Polish trade union Solidarność , Lech Wałęsa, in his capacity as mayor of Lens in October 1981 . In the local elections of March 22, 1983, he was the top candidate of a socialist list that ran against a list of the left union of communists and the radical left and a list of the united opposition led by Marcel Barrois. The Delelis list won 31 of the 39 seats on the Lens municipal council.

Delelis resigned as Minister for Trade and Crafts at the formation of the third Mauroy government on March 22, 1983 from the cabinet and was then replaced as Minister by Michel Crépeau .

senator

On September 25, 1983, André Delelis was first elected a member of the Senate for the Parti socialiste in the Pas-de-Calais department. After moving to the Palais du Luxembourg , he became a member of the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defense and Armed Forces (Commission des affaires étrangères, de la défense et des forces armées) .

In addition, he also dealt with other topics and made inquiries about fuel prices (1983), job cuts at the state-owned coal company Charbonnages de France (1984), the penalties against a professional association of hairdressers (1985) and the situation in professional football (1987), to which he was connected through his support of the RC Lens in the takeover of the Stade Bollaert by the city of Lens in 1976 after the mining company could no longer guarantee the financial support. His other interventions in the Senate concerned the situation in the mining area of ​​northern France and the miners.

He essentially supported the policies of the socialist governments of Pierre Mauroy, Laurent Fabius and Michel Rocard , although they had decided in January 1990 that the responsibility of the elected representatives in the mining companies should be transferred to an economic company for the mining areas. In February 1991, he withdrew his candidacy for the chairmanship of the planning company for the mining communes SACOMI (Société d'aménagement des communes minières) in favor of the member of the National Assembly and Mayor of Liévin, Jean-Pierre Kucheida , thereby eliminating the long-standing differences between the two politicians ended. Ultimately, however, there were differences of opinion between him and the central party leadership, so that in 1991 he resigned from the Parti socialiste and did not run again in the Senate elections in September 1992.

Last years of life

The Stade Bollaert in Lens was renamed Stade Bollaert-Delelis in his honor on September 12, 2012 after his death

As mayor, he significantly supported the modernization of Stade Bollaert , the stadium was completely renovated for the 1998 soccer world championship and the 1999 rugby world championship , with the capacity being reduced from almost 50,000 to 41,800. Since then, the stadium has only had seats. In the meantime, the number of seats has been limited to 41,233 through the construction of exclusive boxes and improved security standards. It is noteworthy that the city of Lens itself only has about 37,000 inhabitants.

In October 1998 Delelis resigned as Mayor of Lens in favor of the previous Vice-Mayor for Culture and Youth, Guy Declourt , and also resigned as President of the District de Lens-Liévin .

Delelis died on September 4, 2012 at the age of 88 in Lens, where he was mayor for 32 years and whose interests he represented for 23 years as a member of the National Assembly and Senator.

Eight days after his death, the Stade Bollaert was renamed Stade Bollaert-Delelis in his honor.

His four daughters Annie, Danielle, Pascale and Dominique Delelis emerged from his marriage to Suzanne Soupart on May 1, 1944.

Publications

  • Interventions: André Delelis , 1973

Background literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry on the homepage of the National Assembly (3rd legislative period)
  2. ↑ a b Entry on the website of the National Assembly (4th legislative period)
  3. ↑ Entry on the homepage of the National Assembly (5th legislative period)
  4. ^ Cabinet Mauroy I
  5. ^ Gabriel Goodliffe: The Resurgence of the Radical Right in France: From Boulangisme to the Front National . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2012, ISBN 978-1-107-00670-6 , p. 265 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  6. ↑ France Investment and Business Guide Volume 1 Strategic and Practical Information . 2015, ISBN 978-1-329-24430-6 , p. 182 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  7. ^ Philippe Ferrand: Chronology of the gouvernements de la France: La Vème république . 2003, ISBN 2-7483-2050-6 , pp. 142, 147 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  8. ^ Michel Taubmann: Le fils perdu de la République . Éditions du Moment, Paris 2015, ISBN 978-2-35417-303-6 ( limited preview in Google Book search)
  9. ^ Cabinet Mauroy II
  10. ↑ Entry on the homepage of the National Assembly (7th legislative period)
  11. ↑ Liz Crolley, David Hand: Football, Europe and the Press . Routledge, London 2002, ISBN 0-7146-4957-0 , p. 79 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  12. ^ Andy Mitten: The Rough Guide to Cult Football . Rough Guides, London 2010, ISBN 978-1-4053-8796-5 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
  13. ↑ À Lens, le stade Félix-Bollaert devient stade Bollaert-Delelis . In: La Croix of September 29, 2012
  14. ↑ Lens: le stade Félix-Bollaert s'appelle désormais stade Bollaert-Delelis . In: La Voix du Nord of September 29, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Delelis, André
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French politician, member of the National Assembly and Senator
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Cauchy-à-la-Tour , Pas-de-Calais department
DATE OF DEATH 4th September 2012
Place of death Lens , Pas-de-Calais department