Charles Fiterman

Charles Fiterman (March 2015)

Charles Fiterman (birth name: Chilek Fiterman * 28. December 1933 in Saint-Etienne , Loire department ) is a former French politician of the Parti Communiste français (PCF), which among others from 1978 to 1981 and from 1986 to 1988 member of the National Assembly and was Minister of Transport from 1981 to 1984.

Life

Fiterman, who came from a Polish - Jewish immigrant family, was brought to a camp in Marlhes after the German occupation of France after the Western campaign in World War II in 1942 , while his father was deported to Auschwitz in May 1944 . In 1951 he joined the Parti communiste français (PCF) as a member and was secretary to PCF General Secretary Waldeck Rochet in April 1965 and his successor Georges Marchais in 1972 . In 1973 he was elected a member of the General Council of the Val-de-Marne department and represented the municipality of Villejuif until 1979 .

As a candidate for the PCF, Fiterman became a member of the National Assembly for the first time on March 19, 1978 and represented the interests of the Val-de-Marne department in this until May 22, 1981.

On June 23, 1981 he was appointed by Prime Minister Pierre Mauroy to succeed Louis Mermaz as Minister of Transport (Ministre des Transports) in the second Mauroy cabinet and held this ministerial office in the third Mauroy cabinet from March 24, 1983 to July 17, 1984. At the same time, he served as Minister of State ( Ministre d'État ) from June 22, 1981 to March 22, 1983 . Along with Marcel Rigout as Minister of Vocational Training, Anicet Le Pors as Minister of Public Service and Jack Ralite as Minister of Health, he was one of the four PCF ministers who were involved in the second government of Pierre Mauroy after the victory of the left under François Mitterrand . In 1982, as Minister of Transport, he pushed through the reopening of four lines that were closed to passenger traffic. This initiative encouraged other regions to reopen their lines, on the Auray – Quiberon line in Brittany . In July 1984 the PCF decided to leave the government to protest against what it saw as the neoliberal orientation of the government set up by the Parti socialiste (PS).

Fiterman was re-elected to the National Assembly for the PCF on March 16, 1986, but represented the Rhône department until May 14, 1988 . In 1994 he was one of the co-founders of the political movement Convention pour une alternative progressiste (CAP), along with Marcel Rigout , Jean-Pierre Brard and Gilbert Wasserman , which supported Dominique Voynet's candidacy in the 1995 presidential election . On November 11, 2003 he became a member of the Scientific Orientation Committee of the social democratic organization À gauche, en Europe, founded by Dominique Strauss-Kahn , Michel Rocard and Pierre Moscovici . In 1998 he resigned from the PCF after 47 years of membership and became a member of the Parti socialiste (PS). He was one of the supporters of the referendum on the European constitution on May 29, 2005 , which was rejected by a majority of 55.7% of the voters. He is a member of the board of directors of the think tank Notre Europe - Institut Jacques Delors .

publication

• Profession de foi. Pour l'honneur de la politique , Seuil, Paris 2005, ISBN 2-0206-1489-8

Web links

• Entry on the homepage of the National Assembly
• Bibliography in the Open Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Joanne Vajda Profession de foi. Pour l'honneur de la politique - Charles Fiterman Archived copy ( Memento of the original from August 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.