Death of Laurent Bouvet: policies, left and right

The politicist who advocated in particular a strict vision of secularism was dead Saturday at the age of 53 years of the suites of Charcot’s disease.

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Laurent Bouvet, Politist and co-founder of the Republican Spring – Movement that defends a strict definition of secularism – died on Saturday, December 18, at the age of 53 years. Since 2019, this former member of the Socialist Party (PS), where he has campaigned for twenty years, was reached from Charcot’s disease, a neurodegenerative pathology. At the end of November, he had announced on his Facebook page that his “public word ceased”.

At the announcement of his disappearance, the homage of personalities of the entire political spectrum multiplied. From the left, first, at which Laurent Bouvet has always claimed belonging. The former Socialist Prime Minister Manuel Valls has thus greeted a “friend”. “I think of Astrid [Panosyan, his companion, co-founder of the Republic on the move], to their daughters, I dare to imagine their pain. Laurent will miss me, his personality, his courage, his thought, his writings will miss me And missing in our country, left, mine, republicans. Tonight I cry, “he wrote on Twitter. Candidates for Presidential, Arnaud Montebourg, Anne Hidalgo and Communist Fabien Roussel also expressed their emotion.

Laurent Bouvet defended the Republic, I pay tribute to the intellectual and the committed man. I extend all my … https://t.co/hk1drnn7ji

– Anne_Hidalgo (@anne hidalgo)

Convinced defender and pugnace of secularism, Laurent Bouvet went away. We did not always agree, my … https://t.co/k56m3wjpxv

– Fabien_Roussel (@Fabien Roussel)

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