Claude Estier
Claude Estier | |
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Member of the French National Assembly | |
| In office 25 June 1967 – 24 June 1968 | |
| Constituency | Paris (25th circ.) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Claude Hasday Ezratty 8 June 1925 Paris, France |
| Died | 10 March 2016 (aged 90) Paris, France |
| Political party | French Section of the Workers' International (1945-1947), Unitary Socialist Party (1948), Convention of Republican Institutions (1964-1971), Socialist Party (1971-2016) |
| Alma mater | Sciences Po |
Claude Estier (born Claude Hasday Ezratty;
Biography
Early life
Estier's father was a supporter of the French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO). Because of this, Estier grew up in a socialist culture throughout his youth. His professors included Robert Verdier and Maurice Merleau-Ponty.
Resistance
Estier participated in the Résistance in 1942, engaging in the carriage of arms and newspapers in Lyon until 1944. In charge of reports of listening to Radio Londres and Radio Algiers, the Free France broadcasts, he ended the war in the French Forces of the Interior.
In 1945, he then became a member of the centre-left French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO). A very critical article on the SFIO Interior Minister Jules Moch's harsh repression of the 1947 strikes published in the newspaper Combat at the end of 1947 led to his exclusion from the party.
He campaigned in 1948 for the Unitary Socialist Party[note 4] where he met, among others, Gilles Martinet and Pierre Stibbe. All three were former Résistance fighters who advocated a left-wing political line between the French Communist Party and the anti-communist SFIO.
Journalist
In 1955 he joined the political editorial team of daily newspaper
He was a long-time supporter of the Algerian cause, establishing ties with Algerian nationalists such as Ferhat Abbas.
Political career
National Assembly
He was elected as a candidate for Mitterrand's
He was elected again in 1981 and became chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Assembly from 1983 to 1986.
He had put a provisional end to his activities as a journalist in 1967, but from 1972 to 1986 he led the official weekly of the Socialist Party, L'Unité. From 1981 to 1988, he regularly took part as such in the animated weekly political debate Vendredi Soir on France Inter with Jean d'Ormesson (a right-wing journalist and writer), Pierre Charpy (his counterpart as head of La Lettre de la Nation, the weekly of the Rally for the Republic) and Roland Leroy (editor-in-chief of the Communist daily L'Humanité).
Senate
In 1986, he entered the
Post-Senator career
After, he returned to literature by publishing two new books in the Cherche-Midi.
Elected offices held
- Deputy representing Paris (1967-1968 and 1981-1986)
- Paris City councillor (1971-1989 and 1995-2001)
- Member of the European Parliament (1979-1981)
- Île-de-France regional councilor (1981-1986)
- Senator representing Paris (1986-2004)
Notes
- ^ A defunct electoral district for the French National Assembly from 1958 to 1986
- ^ He had to quit before the end of his term as he was elected in 1981 to the French National Assembly
- Official Journalon 11 September 1983
- ^ Not to be confused with the later Unified Socialist Party (PSU), of whom Gilles Martinet was a cofounder
References
- ^ CV at Senate website (in French).
- ^ "L'ancien sénateur Claude Estier est mort" (in French). Le Monde. 10 March 2016. Retrieved 11 March 2016.
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