Robert Fabre

Robert Fabre (born December 21, 1915 in Villefranche-de-Rouergue , Département Aveyron ; † December 23, 2006 ibid) was a French politician of the Parti républicain, radical et radical-socialiste (PR) and later the Mouvement des Radicaux de Gauche ( MRG).

Life

Fabre, a professional pharmacist , was originally a member of the Parti Radical and was 1953-1983 mayor of his native city of Villefranche-de-Rouergue, a small town in the region of Midi-Pyrénées . In the parliamentary elections in 1962 he was elected as a PR candidate for the first time as a member of the National Assembly and was a member of this until 1981.

After PR had become a less important small party since the 1960s, moving from the left to the right center, the party split in 1972 over the question of whether to support the socialist François Mitterrand in the 1974 presidential election together with the communists . Proponents of the idea united in the Mouvement de la gauche radicale-socialiste (MRGS), which was later renamed the Mouvement des Radicaux de Gauche (MRG) and whose president Fabre was between 1972 and 1978.

Under his leadership, the MRG, which comprised the majority of the radical MPs, joined forces with the Parti socialiste of François Mitterrand and the Parti communiste français (PCF) under Georges Marchais to form the Union de la Gauche (Left Union) before the 1973 parliamentary elections . After Mitterrand and Marchais, Fabre was one of the three leaders of the alliance of socialists, communists and radicals. His rejection of the nationalization program propagated by the General Secretary of the PCF Marchais ultimately led to the separation of the three left-wing parties at the end of the 1970s. In 1978 he was succeeded by Michel Crépeau as President of the MRG.

Fabre himself refused to run again in the elections to the National Assembly in 1981 and resigned his mandate prematurely. Thereupon Jean Rigal was replaced as a member of parliament in a by-election on November 30, 1980, who later also became his successor as mayor.

However, he supported Mitterrand's candidacy in the 1981 presidential election , in which he defeated the incumbent President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing with 15,708,262 votes (51.76 percent) , who only got 14,642,306 votes (48.24 percent).

After leaving Parliament in 1980, he succeeded Aimé Paquet Médiateur de la République , an independent authority on relations between citizens and the administration, and held this post until he was replaced by Paul Legatte in 1986 March 1986 as a member of the Conseil constitutionnel and was a member of this constitutional court until it was replaced by Michel Ameller on March 4, 1995.

Background literature

• Samuel Deguera: Robert Fabre. Un radical sous la Vème République , 2003, ISBN 978-2747540933

Web links

• Entry in rulers.org
• Entry in the Munzinger archive (top of the online version)