Jacqueline Fraysse

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Jacqueline Fraysse-Cazalis (born February 25, 1947 in Paris ) is a French cardiologist and politician . She is a member of the French Communist Party and was a member of the National Assembly .

Fraysse grew up in the 12th arrondissement in Paris. Her parents Louis Fraysse and Élise Lasserre were both journalists.

On March 26, 2002, Fraysse, in her capacity as mayor, was chairing a meeting of Nanterre City Council when Richard Durn opened fire on the city councils, killing eight of them and injuring nineteen ( Nanterre Massacre ).

Studies and professional training

After attending schools in Nanterre, she studied at the Faculté de médecine de Paris . She completed her studies with a diploma and a doctorate in medicine; a specialist training as a cardiologist followed.

Professional career

Fraysse began working as a cardiologist in Nanterre; then she worked, also as a cardiologist, at the municipal health center in Argenteuil . She retired in autumn 2012.

Political career

In 1971 she was elected to the Nanterre City Council on the Communist Party list; 1976 member of the General Council of the canton of Nanterre-Nord .

In the 1978 elections, she was elected to the French National Assembly for the first time in the Seventh Constituency of Hauts-de-Seine, which includes the municipalities of Nanterre and Suresnes . In 1981 she was re-elected in the same constituency. She now specializes within the (then) parliamentary committee for culture, family and social affairs on issues of hygiene, health, women's work and employment of children and young people, as well as the situation of foreigners.

In 1986 she was elected senator for the Hauts-de-Seine constituency (re-elected in 1995). There she joined the Groupe communiste faction (name from 1995 Groupe communiste, républicain et citoyen , CRC for short) and worked first in the Legal Committee, later in the Social Committee.

On May 26, 1988, she was elected mayor for the first time by the Nanterre City Council. Her predecessor was Yves Saudmond.

After she had been elected to the National Assembly for the 4th constituency of Haut-de-Seine in the election of June 1, 1997, she gave back her mandate for the Senate. In the election for the National Assembly on June 16, 2002, she was re-elected. She joined the Communist Group , which in 2007 became the new Gauche démocrate et républicaine faction .

On March 26, 2002, Fraysse chaired a meeting of the Nanterre City Council in her capacity as mayor. The assassin Richard Durn, who subsequently committed suicide, drew a gun, shot and killed eight councilors and injured 19 others, 14 of them seriously ( Nanterre massacre ).

On October 17, 2004, she resigned from her post as mayor, but remained a city councilor and member of the National Assembly. The city council elected Patrick Jarry as their successor. She denied a connection between her resignation and the drama of 2002. You need someone at the head of the administration who can devote himself to the challenges of the present and future for Nanterre with all his strength, especially with regard to the further development of the Ax Historique .

In March 2010, she resigned from the Communist Party, at the same time as most of the movement communistes unit aires to Patrick Braouezec and joined the Fédération pour une alternative sociale et écologique , which in 2011 part of the electoral alliance in turn in June Front de Gauche was . In Nanterre she took part in the founding of Gauche Citoyenne , a left-wing alternative movement whose organizational form was inspired by the World Social Forum .

On July 17, 2012, Fraysse was re-elected to the National Assembly . In parliament, she joined the Gauche démocrate et républicaine (GDR) faction , in which the Communist Party, the Front de gauche and other MPs had come together.

In March 2014, her mandate as councilor of Nanterre ended; she was appointed honorary mayor by the local council due to her 15-year term of office as mayor.

She did not stand for the 2017 National Assembly election.

Private life

On May 8, 1976, she married Claude Gauché Cazalis, who died in 2012. The marriage had two children. The son Gilles Gauché-Cazalis has also been on the Nanterre City Council since 2008.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Page on Fraysse on the website of the National Assembly. Accessed January 12, 2011
  2. a b c d e f Who's Who in France 2008, p. 925
  3. Your declaration of possible conflicts of interest vis-à-vis the Haute Autorité pour la Transparence et la Vie Publique
  4. ^ Sa fiche sur le site du Sénat
  5. Product La députée Jacqueline Fraysse va quitter le Parti Communiste in Le Parisien on March 26, 2010 accessed 24 October 2010
  6. ^ Carnet, Décès de Claude Gauché-Cazalis , Le Parisien of January 26, 2012, accessed October 25, 2013
  7. ^ Article Le système Jarry à Nanterre by Hélène Constanty of 23 November 2009; online: [1] in L'Express; accessed on October 25, 2013.

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