Anne-Marie Comparini, former regional president and loyalist of François Bayrou, has died | EUROtoday

Anne-Marie Comparini, trustworthy to François Bayrou and former president of the Rhône-Alpes area, died on the night time of Saturday to Sunday January 5 on the age of 77, we discovered from these round her. The former Rhône MP died round 2 a.m. on Sunday on the Edouard Herriot hospital in Lyon the place she had been admitted to the emergency room on December 31, one among her kin informed Agence France-Presse ( AFP).

Born July 11, 1947 in Orange (Vaucluse), Anne-Marie Comparini was a member of the UDF (center-right) and served as parliamentary assistant to the previous prime minister, Raymond Barre, from 1978 to 2001, former deputy for Rhône. She was additionally the deputy for metropolis and college coverage at Lyon city corridor, when Mr. Barre took the reins of the municipality, between 1995 and 2001.

Elected for the primary time in 1986 to the Rhône-Alpes regional council (which is able to turn out to be Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes with the 2015 merger), she was repeatedly re-elected there till taking on its presidency in 1999. Anne-Marie Comparini was then elected with the votes of the left and the UDF elected officers who withdrew their assist from Charles Millon after he accepted the votes of the National Front in 1998.

“Intransigent, refusing to compromise with the National Front, she became president of the region for six years. We loved him and I loved him”greeted Prime Minister François Bayrou on the social community

Candidate for succession in 2004 underneath the UDF-UMP label, she failed in opposition to the socialist, Jean-Jack Queyranne.

Member of Parliament for Rhône since 2002, she is working within the 2007 legislative elections underneath the union label UDF and Modem, a model new formation from the middle based by the present Prime Minister, François Bayrou. But she was crushed within the first spherical.

Considered to be a candidate for mayor of Lyon for François Bayrou’s occasion, she nevertheless introduced her withdrawal from politics shortly after the 2007 legislative elections. She however declared that she supported Emmanuel Macron, chairing her Lyon assist committee in 2022.