The former secretary of the French Communist Party and candidate in the 1988 presidential election André Lajoinie has died at almost 95 years old, according to figures in his party.
“Immense sadness at the announcement of the death of André Lajoinie” wrote Fabien Roussel, secretary general of the PCF, on the social network “We are losing a man of great humanity,” he added.
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A die-hard activist
Born on December 26, 1929, André Lajoinie, son of Corrèze peasants, embodied for more than half a century the man of the apparatus devoted to his party.
Child of a poor farming family, forced to abandon school after his school certificate to help in the fields, André Lajoinie defended “a predominantly family-based agriculture, with structures on a human scale”.
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André Lajoinie joined the Jeunesses Communistes (JC) following the war, in 1946.
A pure and hardline activist, seriously injured in 1958 during a demonstration against the Algerian war, he followed a very classic path: central party school (1964), Moscow executive school (1967), entry into the Committee central in 1972 and to the Political Bureau in 1976.
Member of Parliament for Allier for 20 years
Consecration arrived in 1982, with his entry into the party secretariat, then headed by Georges Marchais.
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In the 1988 presidential election, André Lajoinie led the difficult battle against president-candidate François Mitterrand and won a small 6.76%, which ensured his party would be reimbursed for campaign expenses.
This specialist in agricultural issues was then a deputy for Allier from 1978 to 1993, then re-elected in 1997. He threw in the towel in 2002, at the age of 72, and decided not to run again.
