Marcel Mérigonde

Marcel Mérigonde (born February 18, 1910 in Paris , † July 18, 1984 in Asnières-sur-Seine ) was a French politician. From 1956 to 1958 he was a member of the National Assembly .

Early life and resistance

After graduating from school, Mérigonde studied Beauvais and then worked as a teacher. Immediately after starting the profession in 1929, he joined a teachers' union. This was followed in 1931 by joining the Section française de l'Internationale ouvrière . From 1939 he took part in the Second World War for France and was awarded the Croix de guerre for his services as a soldier . Mainly because of its membership of the socialist SFIO, Mérigonde, who was also a member of the Grand Orient de France, was suspended from teaching by the Vichy regime in October 1942 . From then on he worked as a clerk in an office and then as an insurance agent. At the request of former MP Jean Biondi , he joined the Resistance . He was arrested in 1944 and deported to Neuengamme concentration camp by the German occupiers . In 1945 he was liberated.

Political career

In September 1945, and thus a few months after his liberation, he succeeded in entering the General Council of the Oise department , in which he was represented until 1981. In the parliamentary elections in 1946 he appeared on the list of SFIO in the Oise department, but was not elected as fourth on the list. A second candidacy in 1951 was also unsuccessful. Nevertheless, he got a job in the National Assembly, where he worked from 1952 as administrative secretary of the socialist faction. In April 1953 he was also able to move into the city council of Compiègne . In the parliamentary elections in 1956 he ran again. He was placed first in the list and accordingly made the leap into parliament. In October 1957, Mérigonde was elected Secretary of the National Assembly. Internally, he directed himself against the participation of the SFIO in the government of Félix Gaillard and instead spoke out in favor of a center-left government, which was rejected by a narrow majority at the party congress in November 1957. Mérigonde was also a strict opponent of the takeover by Charles de Gaulle , which was initiated in May 1958, and put on a paper to reject it, which was signed by 112 MPs. After a clear defeat in the parliamentary elections in 1958, he ran again in 1962 and failed despite an improved result to return to the National Assembly. He remained active at the local level, even if he was independent of the party after leaving the SFIO successor party, Parti socialiste in 1973. In the same year he was elected by the members of the General Council to the Regional Council of the Picardy Region. In addition, he was Vice-President of the General Council from 1976. He resigned from both offices in 1979 for health reasons. Mérigonde died in 1984.

Individual evidence

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