Fabien Roussel announced this Tuesday, November 26, the death of the former leader of the French Communist Party and candidate in the 1988 presidential election, André Lajoinie, at the age of 94.
An emblematic communist figure. André Lajoinie, former leader of the PCF, died this Tuesday, November 26 at the age of 94, said Fabien Roussel in a message posted on X.
“Immense sadness at the announcement of the death of André Lajoinie. I send my most fraternal condolences to his family, his loved ones, to those who shared his fights for the working classes, for his territory, for France. We are losing a man of great humanity,” wrote Fabien Roussel to pay tribute to him.
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 family of poor farmers, 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”.
André Lajoinie joined the Jeunesses Communistes (JC) in the aftermath of 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 cadre school (1967), entry into the Central Committee in 1972 and the Political Bureau in 1976.
Consecration arrived in 1982, with his entry into the party secretariat, then headed by Georges Marchais. In the 1988 presidential election, André Lajoinie led the difficult battle against the president-candidate François Mitterrand and obtained a score of 6.76%.
Many political tributes
This specialist in agricultural issues was 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.
During the government questions session this Tuesday, the President of the National Assembly Yaël Braun-Pivet paid tribute to him. The government joined in through Michel Barnier.
“I knew him personally, I respected him and we worked together a lot. And I would simply like to say to his friends and comrades in the Communist Party that we share their pain,” declared the Prime Minister.
“André Lajoinie was born into a family of modest peasants, and he grew up in the spirit of the Resistance. All his life, faithful to his communist commitment, he fought for social justice and for family farming,” greeted for his part on X the former socialist president François Hollande, who shares with the communist the love of Corrèze.
The leader of La France insoumise (LFI) Jean-Luc Mélenchon, for his part, spoke of “an effective and powerful voice” for popular struggles “particularly in rural and peasant environments” as well as his “absolute dedication” to communism. .
