François Bachelot (born April 19, 1940 in Le Mans - died June 14, 2019 in Saint-Cloud) was a French physician and politician.

Early life

François Bachelot was born on 19 April 1940 in

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Career

Medical career

Bachelot began his career as a physician. He ran a cancer clinic in La Garenne-Colombes,Renaud Dely
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. He practiced at the Saint-Cloud cancer center. He served as secretary-general of the Permanent Assembly of the chambers of liberal professions, between 1977 and 1983, before serving as president of the chamber of liberal professions of Hauts-de-Seine.

Political career

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), François Bachelot joined the National Front in the mid-1980s, and led the far-right list to the legislative elections of March 1986 in Seine-Saint-Denis, which obtained 14.52% of the vote and two deputies. He served as a member of the National Assembly from 1986 to 1988. At the beginning of November 1987, François Bachelot replaced Olivier d'Ormesson - who resigned following Jean-Marie Le Pen's controversial gas chamber remarks - at the FN political office, allowing Bachelot to become secretary general of the party of the National Front. During the presidential elections of 1988, he led the campaign of Jean-Marie Le Pen in Paris. During the legislative elections in June, he presented himself in the constituency of Aulnay-sous-Bois and obtained 16.6% of the votes cast in the first round, a high result for an FN candidate but insufficient to make it to the second round. An ally of Jean-Marie Le Pen, he came up with the idea of sending patients with HIV/AIDS to "sidatoriums" to curtail a "generalised epidemic," which was widely repeated by Le Pen He also suggested AIDS could be spread via perspiration and saliva. In a 1999 interview, he suggested all of this was what physicians believed at the time.

References

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