Roger Romani, Minister underneath Jacques Chirac, died | EUROtoday

Roger Romani, former vice-president of the Senate (2008-2011) and Minister of Relations with Parliament underneath Jacques Chirac (1995-1997), died Thursday, February 20 in Paris on the age of 90, introduced his household on Friday with the France-Presse company.

The president of the Senate Gérard Larcher praised, on X a “Figure from the right to the RPR then at the UMP, close to Jacques Chirac (…) FI[ère] of its Corsican origins “ including that “His sense of commitment will lack French political life”.

Born in Tunis, like Philippe Séguin, of whom he was additionally very shut, Roger Romani joined the cupboard of Jacques Chirac in 1974 in Matignon as an adviser to the Prime Minister, a publish he once more occupied from 1986 throughout The first cohabitation, underneath François Mitterrand.

From 1993 to 1995, Roger Romani was Minister Delegate for Relations with the Senate inside the Government of Edouard Balladur, then from 1995 to 1997 Minister of Relations with Parliament when Alain Juppé was in Matignon. Senator from Paris from 1977 to 1993, he once more occupied this seat from 2002 to 2011, assuming the vice-president of the Senate from 2008 to 2011. “The Republic bows in its memory”praised the present Minister of Relations with Parliament, Patrick Mignola.