André Lajoinie, figure of the French Communist Party and former candidate in the 1988 presidential election, is dead

The former leader of the French Communist Party (PCF) and candidate in the 1988 presidential election, André Lajoinie, has died, party members announced on Tuesday, November 26. “Immense sadness at the announcement of the death of André Lajoinie”wrote Fabien Roussel, secretary general of the PCF, on the social network “his fights for the working classes, for his territory, for France”. “We are losing a man of great humanity” he added.

“André Lajoinie has just left us. The son of farmers, he had a love of people deep in his heart. Member of Parliament, leader of the PCF, André was a fierce defender of the working class”also wrote Parisian elected official (PCF) Ian Brossat on the social network X.

André Lajoinie was a deputy for Allier for twenty years, recalls the regional daily The Mountain. Il had collected 6.76% of the votes in the first round of the 1988 presidential election, won by François Mitterrand.