Robert Hue

Robert Georges Auguste Hue ( * October 19, 1946 in Cormeilles -en- Parisis, Département Val- d'Oise ) is a French politician of the Parti Communiste français.

Biography

Youth

As the son of Communist workers, his father was Mason, his mother worked for a textile company, he went with his father often the newspaper L' Humanité sell. He attended the Collège d' Enseignement Technique in Cormeilles -en- Parisis and played in the rock group " Les Rapaces " under the pseudonym Willy Balton. At age 16, he joined the Communist Youth, a year later in the Parti Communiste français ( PCF). In Paris, he was trained as a nurse and then practiced the profession in a psychiatry at Argenteuil from. In his youth he was also a judoka. Hue was a French university masters and wore a black belt 2nd Dan.

Political career

In PCF Robert Hue rose as a pendant Georges Marchais, step by step in the party hierarchy, and first became involved in local politics. In 1977 he was elected mayor of Montigny- lès -Cormeilles. He is viewed as very popular and was confirmed to date in his office. These Hue also won other local mandates, such as a seat on the Regional Council ( Conseil Régional ) of the region of Île -de -France. In 1987 he was elected to the Central Committee of the PCF, 1990 in the Politburo. Four years later, although he was still unknown, Georges Marchais made ​​him his successor as general secretary of the PCF. Powered by the fall of the Wall and the ideological crisis of the PCF, he heralded the change within the party. The Communist Party now opened other political currents, said goodbye to parts of the traditional party program, you got a double peak ( Hue was party leader and Marie- George Buffet took over the post of the Secretary General ). He also published a book to explain the intra-party reforms: Communisme: la mutation ( communism: the convertible ). In 1995, he stepped up to the presidential elections for the PCF: he got 8.65 percent of the vote and suffered severely from the competition of the Revolutionary Communist League and the Workers Struggle, but achieved a better result than the previous communist candidate. Two years later, he supported the idea of ​​Gauche plurielle, which then successfully forced the third cohabitation. Some Communist ministers were appointed to the cabinet of Prime Minister Lionel Jospin.

Meanwhile, the PCF suffered a sharp decline in membership: the number of members decreased from 200,000 in 1998 to 138,000 in 2001, the same year the party lost local elections in many of their strongholds. . A year later, Hue was another presidential candidate and only reached 3.37 percent of the vote: the right-wing extremist Jean -Marie Le Pen, who made it surprisingly in the second ballot, the Communist Party declared dead The election result was so bad that election expenses were not fully reimbursed and thus the party was in the red. Robert Hue left the party leaders and handed them completely general secretary Marie- George Buffet. The post of party leader disappeared with his departure. In 2003, Hue lost in by-elections his seat in the National Assembly. A year later, however, he was elected to the Senate.

Political career

  • March 21, 1977, elected Mayor of Montigny- lès -Cormeilles in the department of Val- d'Oise
  • 24 March 1986, elected to the Regional Council of Ile- de -France region
  • October 2, 1988, election to the General Council of the department of Val- d'Oise
  • March 30, 1992, election to the Regional Council of Ile- de -France region
  • 1994 election as General Secretary of the PCF
  • 1995, presidential candidate of the PCF, achieved 8.65 % of the votes
  • June 1, 1997, election to the National Assembly of the Val-d'Oise department.
  • October 2001 election as leader of the PCF
  • April 21, 2002, presidential candidate of the PCF, achieved 3.37 % of the votes
  • February 2, 2003, fails at partial elections to the National Assembly in his constituency ( Argenteuil, Val- d'Oise department ) against the candidate of the UMP, Georges Mothron
  • September 26, 2004, election as Senator of the department of Val- d'Oise

Publications

  • Histoire d'un village du Parisis the origines à la Révolution ( story of a village of the Parisi from its origins to the Revolution, 1981)
  • You village à la ville ( from the village to the city, 1986)
  • Montigny pendant la Révolution ( Montigny during the Revolution, 1989)
  • Communisme: la mutation ( communism: the convertible, 1995)
  • Il faut qu'on se parle ( We need to talk, 1997)
  • Communisme: un nouveau projet ( communism: a new project, 1999)
Cormeilles-en-Parisis Marie-George Buffet Plural Left Cohabitation (government) Jean-Marie Le Pen Maurice Thorez Jacques Duclos Pierre Laurent (politician) Integrated Authority File
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