The former Rhône MP died around 2 a.m. Sunday at the Édouard Herriot hospital in Lyon where she was admitted to the emergency room on December 31.
Anne-Marie Comparini, faithful to François Bayrou and former president of the Rhône-Alpes region, died in the night from Saturday to Sunday at the age of 77, Agence France-Presse (AFP) learned from her surroundings.
The former Rhône MP died around 2 a.m. Sunday at the Édouard Herriot hospital in Lyon where she was admitted to the emergency room on December 31, one of her relatives told 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 former Prime Minister Raymond Barre from 1978 to 2001, ex- deputy for Rhône. She was also the deputy for city and university policy at Lyon town hall, when he took the reins of the municipality, between 1995 and 2001.
Elected for the first time in 1986 to the Rhône-Alpes regional council (which would become Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes with the 2015 merger), she was regularly re-elected there until taking over its presidency in 1999.
Withdrawal from politics in 2007
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.
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 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 support for Emmanuel Macron, president of his Lyon support committee in 2022.
