André Chassaigne, last incarnation of rural communism and figure of the Palais-Bourbon, leaves the National Assembly

The deputy of Puy-de-Dôme and president of the Left Democratic and Republican Group, present in the Chamber for twenty-three years, will become deputy mayor of Saint-Amant-Roche-Savine. He will ask his last question to the government on Tuesday 25 March.

In the Assembly, André Chassaigne asks his last question to the government and receives a sustained tribute If he is a communist or not, we all felt this moment of pride before the tribute to André Chassaigne, the one who until the end assumed his function with dignity and modesty, the one who did not mourn his sentence for Cuba while conducting difficult campaigns in the tide of right-wing extremism in our proletarian territories. Communist MP …

In a moment, the unanimous tribute to the now retired Communist deputy of Puy-de-Dôme, six times re-elected, brought the assembly back to the blessed time when we could still discuss.

At 74, the boss of the Communist deputies André Chassaigne left his seat in the National Assembly. A warm and respected figure at the Palais-Bourbon, the deputy of Puy-de-Dôme asked the government a final question on Tuesday 25 March, before returning to the town hall of Saint-Amant-Roche-Savine,...

The president of the communist group André Chassaigne will leave the National Assembly in the coming days. On Tuesday, he spoke for the last time during the Questions to the Government, questioning Prime Minister François Bayrou on "democratic coups de force". He received the tribute of the Head of Government, the President of the Assembly and all of his peers. - After 22 years in office, he asked the government his last question and received th…

Paris - The deputy of Puy-de-Dôme leaves the National Assembly after almost a quarter of a century of mandate, leaving to his peers the image "great republican", "profoundly rooted"