Anne-Marie Comparini, loyal to François Bayrou and former president of the Rhône-Alpes region, died on the night of Saturday to Sunday January 5 at the age of 77, we learned from those around her. The former Rhône MP died around 2 a.m. on Sunday at the Edouard Herriot hospital in Lyon where she had been admitted to the emergency room on December 31, one of her relatives told Agence France-Presse ( AFP).
Born July 11, 1947 in Orange (Vaucluse), Anne-Marie Comparini was a member of the UDF (center-right) and served as parliamentary assistant to the former prime minister, Raymond Barre, from 1978 to 2001, former deputy for Rhône. She was also the deputy for city and university policy at Lyon town hall, when Mr. Barre took the reins of the municipality, between 1995 and 2001.
Elected for the first time in 1986 to the Rhône-Alpes regional council (which will become Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes with the 2015 merger), she was regularly re-elected there until taking over its presidency in 1999. Anne-Marie Comparini was then elected with the votes of the left and the UDF elected officials who withdrew their support from Charles Millon after he accepted the votes of the National Front in 1998.
“Intransigent, refusing to compromise with the National Front, she became president of the region for six years. We loved him and I loved him”greeted Prime Minister François Bayrou on the social network
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Candidate for succession in 2004 under the UDF-UMP label, she failed against the socialist, Jean-Jack Queyranne.
Member of Parliament for Rhône since 2002, she is running in the 2007 legislative elections under the union label UDF and Modem, a brand new formation from the center founded by the current Prime Minister, François Bayrou. But she was beaten in the first round.
Considered to be a candidate for mayor of Lyon for François Bayrou's party, she however announced her withdrawal from politics shortly after the 2007 legislative elections. She nevertheless declared that she supported Emmanuel Macron, chairing her Lyon support committee in 2022.
