Raymond Forni (20 May 1941 – 5 January 2008) was a French
Socialist
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Belfort
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, in 1941. His father died when he was 11. At 17, he had to stop studying, and he started to work as an unskilled worker in
Peugeot
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The family business that preceded the current Peugeot companies was founded in 1810, with a steel foundry that soon started making hand tools and kitchen equipment, and then ...
factories. He finally graduated from
high school
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at 21 and started law studies at the
University of Strasbourg
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The French university traces its history to the ea ...
. He became a lawyer at the age of 27 years.
Member of the
Socialist Party
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, his political career started in 1971 when he became municipal council. In 1973, he was elected as deputy of
Territoire de Belfort
The Territoire de Belfort () is a department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region, eastern France. It had a population of 141,318 in 2019.département
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''. He got reelected four times consecutively, until 2002.
He was President of the National Assembly from 2000 to 2002. He was president of the
Franche-Comté
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regional council from 2 April 2004, until his death.
He died in
Paris
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on 5 January 2008, at the age of 66, of
leukaemia
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Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland
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(2000).
Political career
''National Assembly of France''
* President of the
National Assembly of France
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: 2000-2002.
* Vice President of the National Assembly: 1991-1993/1998-2000.
* President of Law Committee in the National Assembly: 1981-1985.
* Member of the
National Assembly of France
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for
Territoire de Belfort
The Territoire de Belfort () is a department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region, eastern France. It had a population of 141,318 in 2019.Franche-Comté
Franche-Comté (, ; ; Frainc-Comtou: ''Fraintche-Comtè''; frp, Franche-Comtât; also german: Freigrafschaft; es, Franco Condado; all ) is a cultural and historical region of eastern France. It is composed of the modern departments of Doubs, ...
: 2004-2008 (died 2008)
* Regional councillor of
Franche-Comté
Franche-Comté (, ; ; Frainc-Comtou: ''Fraintche-Comtè''; frp, Franche-Comtât; also german: Freigrafschaft; es, Franco Condado; all ) is a cultural and historical region of eastern France. It is composed of the modern departments of Doubs, ...
: 2004-2008.
''General Council''
* General councillor of the
Territoire de Belfort
The Territoire de Belfort () is a department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region, eastern France. It had a population of 141,318 in 2019.Delle: 1991-2004 (Resignation).
* 1st deputy-mayor of Delle: 1989-91/2004-08 (died 2008)
* Municipal councillor of Delle: 1989-2008 (died 2008)
* Municipal councillor of Montreux-Château (1971–77)
* Municipal councillor of Fontaine: 1983-89
Bibliography
''Un enfant de la République'' ''(a son of the Republic)'', in 2002 ()