After more than twenty years in the hemicyle, the president of the left democratic and republican group (GDR) in the National Assembly and Communist deputy (PCF) of Puy-de-Dôme, André Chassaigne, will give up his headquarters at the Palais-Bourbon. Elected Friday, March 14, assistant to the mayor of Saint-Amant-Roche-Savine, in the department he represents, he is now in the situation of cumulation of mandates. The 74 -year -old parliamentarian has thirty days to make his deputy scarf.
André Chassaigne had announced, at the end of January, his intention to leave the hemicycle, where he has been sitting without interruption since 2002. “It is time that I give up my place to a deputy from another generation”he then explained.
His election as an assistant to the mayor of Saint-Amant-Roche-Savine, a municipality he directed between 1983 and 2010, was confirmed to the France-Presse agency by the communications manager of the GDR group in the National Assembly. Known for his outspokenness and his defense of rural circles, the elected official has been the president since 2012 of this group which brings together communist and ultramarine deputies.
Personality respected at the Palais-Bourbon
His successor at the head of the GDR group should be Stéphane little, according to two communist sources. The 62-year-old deputy for Seine-Saint-Denis had defended an orientation text opposite to that of the national secretary Fabien Roussel and more favorable to the alliance of all left parties during the last PCF Congress in 2023. The group’s co -president with the deputy for Reunion Emeline K/Bidi, already in place, should continue.
Personality respected at the Palais-Bourbon, André Chassaigne was in the summer of 2024 the candidate of the new Popular Front for the presidency of the National Assembly but he had been beaten by 220 votes to 207 by Yaël Braun-Pivet (Renaissance, Yvelines).
The announced departure of André Chassaigne represents a new loss for the PCF in the National Assembly, after the failure of several Party personalities to be re-elected during the last legislative elections, including Fabien Roussel (beaten in the North) and Sébastien Jumel (defeated in Seine-Maritime). André Chassaigne’s deputy, Julien Brugerolles, has been working with him for many years and will replace him on the benches of the hemicycle.