Former deputy of Paris and vice-president of the National Assembly, Nicole Catala, appointed in 1986 Secretary of State to the Minister of National Education, died on Wednesday at 86 years.
Le Monde with AFP
Former Chiraquian Minister Nicole Catala died on Wednesday, October 19, at the age of 86, said her family.
Born on February 2, 1936 in Millau (Aveyron), Nicole Catala was associated with law. She had taught law, economics and social sciences at the University of Paris II. Engaged at the RPR, member of the Economic and Social Council from 1979 to 1984, Nicole Catala was appointed in 1986 Secretary of State to the Minister of National Education, in charge of vocational training, by Jacques Chirac.
During the anticipated legislative elections of 1988, she was elected deputy of the 11 e
é> district of Paris, then re -elected in 1993 and in 1997. This close to Philippe Séguin, lawyer for men women In politics, was also vice-president of the National Assembly from 1993 to 1997 then from 1998 to 2002.
In the 2002 legislative elections, the UMP prefers to grant its inauguration to the Secretary of State Dominique Versini. Nicole Catala has a dissident application but is eliminated in the first round.
“We are losing a woman of heart and ideas this evening that has allowed so many others to make a place for herself,” said Renaissance President of the National Assembly Yaël Braun- Pivet.
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“The result of social gaullism, she was a woman of engagement without counting”, praised, On Twitter also , the former candidate Les Républicains (LR) at the presidential election Valérie Pécresse, while the mayor Lr of 7
“Talent academic, she was one of those who had to fight to make a place in the political world,” said MP MODEM Maud Gatel.