Raymond Forni

Raymond Forni
Forni in 2001
President of the National Assembly
In office
29 March 2000 – 18 June 2002
PresidentJacques Chirac
Preceded byLaurent Fabius
Succeeded byJean-Louis Debré
President of Franche-Comté
In office
2 April 2004 – 5 January 2008
DeputyMarie-Marguerite Dufay
Preceded byJean-François Humbert
Succeeded byMarie-Marguerite Dufay
Personal details
Born(1941-05-20)20 May 1941
Belfort, France
Died5 January 2008(2008-01-05) (aged 66)
Paris, France
Cause of deathLeukemia
Political partySocialist Party
Alma materUniversity of Strasbourg

Raymond Forni (French pronunciation: [ʁɛmɔ̃ fɔʁni]; 20 May 1941 – 5 January 2008) was a French Socialist politician.

Biography

The son of an Italian immigrant from Piedmont,[1] Forni was born in Belfort, 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 factories. He finally graduated from high school at 21 and started law studies at the University of Strasbourg. He became a lawyer at the age of 27 years.[citation needed]

Member of the Socialist Party, his political career started in 1971 when he became municipal council. In 1973, he was elected as deputy of Territoire de Belfort département. 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 regional council from 2 April 2004, until his death.[citation needed]

He died in Paris on 5 January 2008, at the age of 66, of leukaemia.[2] He was married twice and had five sons.

He was awarded Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland (2000).[citation needed]

Political career

National Assembly of France

Regional Council

General Council

  • General councillor of the Territoire de Belfort : 1976-1982/1987-2001. Elected in 1976, reelected in 1987, 1988, 1994.

Municipal Council

  • Mayor of 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 (ISBN 2-234-05458-3)

References

  1. ^ Ory, Pascal (2013). Dictionnaire des étrangers qui ont fait la France. Robert Laffont. p. 558. ISBN 9782221140161. Retrieved 17 May 2016.
  2. ^ Le socialiste Raymond Forni est mort, DECES Le Nouvel Obs
Political offices
Preceded by President of the National Assembly
2000-2002 		Succeeded by
Preceded by President of Franche-Comté
2004-2008 		Succeeded by