Marcel Rigout

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Marcel Rigout (born March 10, 1928 in Verneuil-sur-Vienne , Haute-Vienne department ; † August 23, 2014 in Limoges , Haute-Vienne department) was a French politician of the Parti communiste français (PCF) who, among others, between 1967 and 1968, 1973 to 1981 and 1986 to 1988 member of the National Assembly and 1981 to 1984 Minister of Vocational Education. After leaving the PCF, from 1992 until his death in 2014 he was founding president of the party Alternative démocratie socialisme (ADS), which belongs to the political left .

Life

Resistance fighter, functionary and member of parliament

Rigout, son of the sawmill worker Joseph Rigout and the housewife Marie Lagarde, grew up with nine siblings in Verneuil-sur-Vienne and joined the Resistance movement in March 1944 . After participating in the liberation of Limoges , after the end of the Second World War in April 1945 , he worked in the Limoges arsenal. He then became a member of the Parti communiste français (PCF) and in 1948 secretary of the PCF in the Haute-Vienne department. As a result of his activities as a trade union functionary and in the communist party, he lost his job with six other workers in the Limoges arsenal in 1951, as these activities were incompatible with a job in the national defense. In 1953 he was first commissioner and then secretary of the communist youth organization UJRF ( Union de la jeunesse républicaine de France ) . After he ran unsuccessfully for the PCF in 1958 in the second constituency of the Haute-Vienne department for a member of the National Assembly, he became political director of the communist newspaper L'Écho du Center and in 1961 a member of the PCF's central committee.

As a candidate for the PCF, Rigout was elected member of the National Assembly for the first time on March 12, 1967, and represented the interests of the Haute-Vienne department until the elections on May 30, 1968. From 1970 to 2001 he was a member of the General Council of the Canton of Pierre-Buffière . In the elections of March 11, 1973, he was re-elected to the National Assembly for the PCF and, after being re-elected on March 19, 1978 and June 21, 1981 to July 23, 1981, he again represented the interests of the Haute-Vienne department .

Minister, re-elected to the National Assembly and resignation from the PCF

On June 23, 1981 Rigout was appointed by Prime Minister Pierre Mauroy as Minister for Vocational Training (Ministre de la formation professionnelle) in the second Mauroy cabinet and also held this ministerial office in the third Mauroy cabinet from March 24, 1983 to July 17, 1984. He Along with Charles Fiterman as Minister of Transport, Anicet Le Pors as Minister of Public Service and Jack Ralite as Minister of Health, he was one of the four PCF ministers who were involved in the second government of Pierre Mauroy after the left-wing election victory under François Mitterrand . 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).

On March 16, 1986 Rigout was re-elected for the PCF as a member of the National Assembly and until May 14, 1988 again represented the Haute-Vienne department. In protest against the direction of the PCF in the mid-1980s, he resigned from the party's central committee on January 27, 1987, and as political director of the newspaper L'Écho du Center , before finally leaving the PCF in 1990 after 46 years of membership exited.

In 1992, together with Jacques Jouve , Maurice Charrier , Gaston Viens and Ellen Constans, he founded the party Alternative démocratie socialisme (ADS), which belongs to the political left , and served as its founding president until 2014.

For his many years of service he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Legion of Honor .

Background literature

  • Henri Demay: La déchirure. Marcel Rigout, les rénovateurs limousins ​​et le Parti communiste français , L. Souny, Limoges 1988, ISBN 2-9052-6225-7

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