Dominique Bucchini, communist determine and former president of the Corsican Assembly, died at 82 | EUROtoday

The former president of the Corsican Assembly and former European deputy Dominique Bucchini died on the age of 82, the political class saluting Saturday January 3“love for Corsica” of this communist chief, “major figure in contemporary history” of the island.

The president of the manager council of Corsica, Gilles Simeoni, greeted Saturday on the social community “tireless activist in the service of his communist convictions, man of dialogue and peace imbued with Corsican and universal culture”clairvoyant in Dominique Bucchini “a major figure in the contemporary history of the island. »

Corsica Morning claims he died Friday evening in his hometown, “exhausted by an illness which was his last fight”.

Born in January 1943 in Sartène, in Southern Corsica, Mr. Bucchini campaigned for the Communist Party very early on. A trainer by career, he was mayor of Sartène from 1977 to 2001. In the early Eighties, he grew to become a member of the primary legislature of the European Parliament. In 2010, he was elected for 5 years as head of the Corsican Assembly – the physique which regulates the island’s affairs via its deliberations, notably controls the manager council and votes on the price range.

“Fifty years of political history”

“PCF leader, Dominique Bucchini has left. We will remember his love for Corsica, for the Republic, the strength of his convictions and his unfailing righteousness. Goodbye comrade »was moved on his account X Fabien Roussel, national secretary of the French Communist Party.

The current autonomist president of the Corsican Assembly Marie-Antoinette Maupertuis retains “his pioneering commitment to the fight against violence and his position in favor of the co-officiality of the Corsican language”.

The senator from Corse-du-Sud Jean-Jacques Panunzi, associated to the Les Républicains group, additionally saluted the reminiscence of a person who “went through fifty years of political history of our island, fifty years during which he knew how to take courageous positions”he feedback in a press launch.