Andre Chandernagor

Andre Chandernagor , French politician, born the September 19th 1921 with Civray (Vienna).

Biography

He studies with the Lycée Henri-Iv then at the National school of France of Overseas after a stay in Indo-China. He is assistant administrator of France of Overseas in 1945. He follows ENA of 1949 to 1951. Bachelor of law, he becomes Master of the requests to the Council of State in 1957. It is a specialist in public law. It adheres to SFIO in 1944. It overseas has first political experience in 1946 as an attache with the cabinet of Marius Moutet Minister (SFIO) of France.

Its entry in active policy is carried out in 1953 at the time of its election as a mayor of Mortroux in the Creuse, commune of origin of his wife. He knows a provisional failure with his local establishment in 1955 at the time of the cantonal elections. He is beaten by the outgoing General adviser (Radical) in the canton of Bonnat. He waits until 1961 to make his entry at the General advice of Hollow, taking the succession of Gaston Chazette, former senator, in the Canton of Bourganeuf. Consequently, its rise will be continuous. He will be elected President of the General advice of Hollow in 1973 and President of the District council of the Limousin in 1974. This office plurality of mandates will make of him the strong man of the department of Hollow of the middle of the Sixties in the middle of the Eighties.

Meanwhile, he is elected Creuse with the National Assembly on November 30th, 1958. He sits there until July 23rd, 1981. In 1967-1968 he is vice-president of the National Assembly. He is to date the " recordman" of longevity in the representation of Hollow with the National Assembly (23 years). During its successive mandates, it is one of principal the spokesperson of the socialist group. It intervenes in the name of the group in the diplomatic, economic fields and financier. Impassioned by the defense of the rights of the Parliament he is President of the Council of the interparliamentary Union of 1968 to 1973. He writes: a Parliament for what to make?

Near to Guy Mollet of which he was member of the cabinet in 1956-1957, violently anticommunist, he was hostile a long time with the Union of the left preferring an alliance with the Center to him. He was temporarily suspended PS in 1970. He was member of the management committee of the SFIO then PS. One lends however a long time the intention to him to create a new dissenting social democrat party. After the Congress of Epinay in 1971, it is close to Pierre Mauroy.

Its political weight and its experiment lead it to enter to the government in 1981 after the election of François Mitterrand to the presidency of the Republic. It is named first President of the Court of Auditors in December 1983. First honorary president since September 1990. Member since May 24th, 2005 of the Committee of honor of the bicentenary of the Court of Auditors chaired by current the first president, Philippe Séguin.

He is the father of the writer Francoise Chandernagor, and of Thierry Chandernagor, former president of the General advice of Hollow and current mayor of Mortroux.

Ministerial career

Old Electoral mandates

Parliamentary mandates

1958 - 1981: Député of the Digs (District of Aubusson)

Local mandates

1974 - 1983: President of the District council of the Limousin
1973 - 1983: President of the General advice of Hollow the
1961 - 1983: Member of the General advice of Hollow the (Canton of Bourganeuf)
1953 - 1983: Mayor of Mortroux

See too

Political of Hollow the

List of the deputies of Hollow the

Publications

a Parliament, for what to make? , Gallimard, 1967, collection ideas
To reform the democracy , Balland, 1977 with Alexandre Sanguinetti
mayors in France, XIXe-XXe century. History and sociology of a function , Beech, 1993
Freedom in heritage , Pygmalion, 2004

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