Jack Ralite
Jack Ralite (* 24. May 1928 in Chalons-sur-Marne , Marne department , † 12. November 2017 in Aubervilliers ) was a French politician of the Parti Communiste français (PCF), among others 1973-1981 Member of the National Assembly , of Minister of Health from 1981 to 1983 and a member of the Senate between 1995 and 2011 .
Life
Journalist, MP and Minister
Ralite worked as a journalist for the daily newspaper L'Humanité , the central organ of the PCF. He began his political career in local politics and was Vice Mayor of Aubervilliers , a suburb to the north of Paris , between 1959 and 1984 .
On March 4, 1973 Ralite was a candidate of the Parti communiste français (PCF) for the first time a member of the National Assembly and represented the interests of the Seine-Saint-Denis department as the successor to Waldeck Rochet until July 23, 1981 . On June 23, 1981 he was appointed by Prime Minister Pierre Mauroy to succeed Edmond Hervé as Minister of Health (Ministre de la Santé) in the second Mauroy cabinet and held this ministerial office until March 22, 1983. He belonged to Charles Fiterman as Minister of Transport, Anicet Le Pors as Minister of Public Service and Marcel Rigout as Minister of Education to the four ministers of the PCF who were involved in the second government of Pierre Mauroy after the victory of the left under François Mitterrand . He then acted in the third Mauroy cabinet from March 24, 1983 to July 17, 1984 as Assistant Minister for Employment (Ministre délégué chargé de l'Emploi) to the Minister of Social Affairs and National Solidarity Pierre Bérégovoy . In July 1984 the PCF decided to leave the government to protest against the austerity policies of the government set up by the Parti socialiste (PS).
Mayor and Senator
As the successor to his party friend André Karman , Ralite became mayor of Aubervilliers in 1984 and held this post for almost twenty years until he was replaced by his party friend Pascal Beaudet in March 2003. At the same time, he was a member of the regional council of Île-de-France between 1986 and 1992 .
In the elections of September 24, 1995 Ralite was elected as a candidate of the PCF to the member of the Senate and belonged to this after his re-election on September 26, 2004 until September 30, 2011. There he represented the Seine-Saint-Denis department and joined the Group Groupe Communiste Républicain, Citoyen et des Sénateurs du Parti de Gauche on. During his long membership in the Senate, he was a member of the Senate Committee for Cultural Affairs (Commission des affaires culturelles) from October 1995 to 2010 and most recently between 2010 and September 2011 a member of the resulting expanded Senate Committee for Culture, Education and Communication (Commission de la culture, de l 'Education et de la communication) .
In addition to his membership in the Senate, Ralite was involved, among other things, from 1999 to 2006 as a member of the board of directors of the Cité de la musique , since 2002 as a member of the board of directors of the Ensemble intercontemporain and numerous other cultural institutions.
Publications
- Retour de France. Reportages de Claudine Ducol , Editions Sociales, Paris 1982, ISBN 2-2090-5467-2
- Complicités avec Jean Vilar, Antoine Vitez , Tirésias, Paris 1996, ISBN 2-9085-2749-9
Web links
- Entry on the homepage of the National Assembly
- Entry on the homepage of the Senate (Fifth Republic)
- Proof of publication in the Open Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Jack Ralite est décédé à 89 ans , L'Humanité , accessed on November 12, 2017
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ralite, Jack |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French politician (PCF), member of the National Assembly and Senator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 24, 1928 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Châlons-sur-Marne , Marne department |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 12, 2017 |
| Place of death | Aubervilliers |