Claude Estier

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Claude Estier (birth name: Claude Hasday Ezratty ; born June 8, 1925 in Paris ; † March 10, 2016 ibid) was a French journalist and politician of the Section française de l'Internationale ouvrière (SFIO) and later the Parti socialiste (PS), who was a member of the National Assembly between 1967 and 1968 and again from 1981 to 1986 and a member of the Senate between 1986 and 2004 . In the meantime he was a member of the European Parliament between 1979 and 1981 .

Life

Journalistic activities

Estier, whose father was also involved in the political left , completed his school education at the Lycée Carnot in Paris. During the Second World War he joined the Resistance in Lyon in 1942 and was involved in the resistance movement in illegal arms deliveries and underground newspapers. In the following years he worked for the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in London . He also studied at the École libre des sciences politiques founded by Émile Boutmy in 1872 , from which the Institut d'études politiques de Paris ( Sciences Po ) emerged in 1945 . After the end of the war he was a reporter for the daily Le Progrès de Lyon at the trial of Philippe Pétain .

Estier was a member of the Parti communiste français (PCF) for some time and joined the Section française de l'Internationale ouvrière (SFIO) in 1946 . After completing his studies with a diploma in 1946, he became a journalist for the daily Le Populaire , the organ of the SFIO. In 1947 he wrote an article against the repressive policies of Interior Minister Jules Moch of the SFIO in the daily La Bataille socialiste with the headline Jules Moch, assassin! ("Jules Moch, murderer!"). This article led to his expulsion from the SFIO and his release from Le Populaire . He then joined the Parti socialiste unitaire (PSU) and in 1950 worked for the weekly newspaper France Observateur . In his journalistic work he advocated the independence of Algeria and was therefore under observation by the domestic intelligence service Direction de la surveillance du territoire (DST).

In 1955, Estier became political editor of the daily Le Monde . He gave up this activity in 1958 because, in his opinion, the newspaper was too hesitant about General Charles de Gaulle's political comeback . He then worked for the daily Liberation, edited by Emmanuel d'Astier de la Vigerie , and wrote articles against the growing influence of communism . After the Liberation ceased publication in 1964, he traveled to Egypt , where he interviewed President Gamal Abdel Nasser and wrote a book about it.

Member of the National Assembly, MEP and Senator

After meeting François Mitterrand , Estier decided to start his own political career. As a candidate for the Fédération de la gauche démocrate et socialiste (FDGS), he was elected to the National Assembly in the elections of March 12, 1967 in the Paris XXV constituency. He was a member of the National Assembly until July 11, 1968. He was the founder of the so-called "Gang of Four of the 18th Arrondissement" ( 'La bande des quatre du 18e' ), which consisted of Lionel Jospin , Daniel Vaillant and Bertrand Delanoë . In 1968 he became general secretary of the Convention des institutions républicaines (CIR) and thus an important supporter of Mitterrand.

Estier was also involved in Paris local politics for many years and was a member of the City Council ( Conseil de Paris ) for the first time between 1971 and 1989 . In 1971 he took part in the party convention of the Parti socialiste (PS) in Épinay-sur-Seine , at which it came to merge with the FDGS and CIR. In January 1972 he founded the party newspaper L'Unité and was its editor until 1981.

In the European elections on June 10, 1979 , Estier was elected member of the European Parliament for the PS. He was a member of parliament from July 17, 1979 until his voluntary resignation on August 31, 1981, during which time he was deputy chairman of the Socialist Group . In addition, he was from July 20, 1979 to October 30, 1980 a member of the Committee for Youth, Culture, Education, Information and Sport and between April 14, 1980 and August 31, 1981, Deputy Chairman of the Political Committee. In addition, he was from December 10, 1979 to April 14, 1980, first a member and then from October 13 to December 31, 1980 Vice-Chairman of the delegation in the Joint Parliamentary Committee of the EEC-Greece.

In the elections of June 21, 1981, Estier was re-elected to the National Assembly for the PS in the Paris XXV constituency. During the seventh legislative period he was chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee from July 1, 1981 to April 1, 1986, and in this function met personalities such as Fidel Castro and Nelson Mandela . During this time he was also a member of the Regional Council of Île-de-France from 1981 to 1986 .

In the elections of September 28, 1986, Estier was elected a member of the Senate for the PS in Paris and was re-elected in the June 24, 1995 elections. He was a member of the Senate until September 30, 2004; from October 1986 to September 2004 he was a member of the Senate's Foreign Affairs Committee. On July 5, 1988 he became chairman of the PS parliamentary group in the Senate and held this position for 16 years until September 30, 2004. In addition, he became vice-chairman of the parliamentary delegation to the European Communities on June 15, 1990 and then to the European one Union (EU). He was again a member of the Paris City Council between 1995 and 2001.

Publications (selection)

  • Un combat centenaire , Éditions Le Cherche Midi, 2005
  • J'en ai tant vu , autobiography, Éditions Le Cherche Midi, 2008
  • Anne Hidalgo, maire de Paris, journal de campagne , Éditions Le Cherche Midi, 2014

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ According to a decree published on September 11, 1983 in the Journal officiel de la République française , his name was changed to Claude Estier
  2. ↑ On the homepage of the European Parliament, the date of birth is erroneously given as June 25, 1908 instead of June 8, 1925 by turning the number
personal data
SURNAME Estier, Claude
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ezratty, Claude Hasday (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French politician, journalist and book author
DATE OF BIRTH June 8, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH March 10, 2016
Place of death Paris , France