Léon Sagnol

Léon Sagnol (born October 5, 1891 in Le Puy , Haute-Loire department , † June 7, 1991 ibid) was a French politician of the Parti républicain, radical et radical-socialiste . From 1956 to 1958 he was a member of the National Assembly .

Life and career

Sagnol was drafted into the military in 1912, fought for France in the First World War, which began in 1914, and was awarded the Croix de guerre for his services in the war . He then started working as a wholesaler for milk and poultry products. To this end, he represented the interests of his industry and held high-ranking positions in national associations. At the political level he advocated the ideas of liberal radicalism and stood for the first time in the elections to the national parliament in 1946, but was unsuccessful. In the 1950s he managed to rise within the left-liberal Parti républicain, radical et radical-socialiste and in 1955 became its chairman in the Haute-Loire department. For the parliamentary elections on January 2, 1956, his party entered the département on a joint list with the socialist SFIO , with Sagnol running as the top candidate and thus making it into the National Assembly. The then 65-year-old was the first left-wing politician without affiliation to the French Communist Party , who made it to parliament after 1945 in the Haute-Loire.

In the National Assembly he was a member of the Pensions Commission and the Agricultural Affairs Commission. On May 21, 1957, he was one of four members of his parliamentary group who, contrary to the prevailing position of their party and parliamentary group, supported the budget plans of the socialist government around Prime Minister Guy Mollet . As a justification, Sagnol referred to his electoral alliance with the socialists and deduced from this that he was not only committed to the interests of his party. He offered the party leadership to leave the parliamentary group, but was only warned by them on May 23. In June 1958 he voted for the authorization of Charles de Gaulle , which ushered in the establishment of the Fifth Republic and made new elections necessary in November of the same year. He did not run for re-election, but ran for the Senate in 1959 and again for the National Assembly in 1962, although both candidacies were unsuccessful. He died in 1991 at the age of 99. Sagnol had been a member of the Legion of Honor since 1935 and was also awarded the Ordre des Palmes Académiques and the Ordre du Mérite agricole .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Base de données historique des anciens députés , assemblee-nationale.fr