Leon Defosset
Leon Defosset , born with Leignon on March 13rd, 1925 and died in Woluwe-Saint-Lambert on September 25th, 1991, is a politician of the democratic Front of the French-speaking people and a Walloon militant.
Biography
Leon Defosset, doctor in right to Brussels, was initially active with the Communist party then in the Walloon Popular movement of Brussels. He took an active share in the Walloon Pétitionnement (which was also organized in Brussels where he collected 120.000 signatures). He was one of the first elected officials FDF in 1965. He was president of the structure common to the FDF and the Walloon Rassemblement with the head of which he succeeded Jean Duvieusart of 1972 to 1974. President of the FDF of 1975 to 1977, he is also burgomaster of Etterbeek of 1971 to 1991. Member of the tendency of left of the FDF, it broke with this party in 1985 and only sat like deputy until 1988 in the democratic Rassemblement of Brussels , like related with the Socialist party. According to the Encyclopédie of the Walloon Movement, this rupture intervenes because of the too narrow place left to the Walloon militants in the party, because of the hostility with regard to the role that Antoinette Spaak intends to play there.
He was Minister for the postal and telecommunications authorities of 1977 to 1979, then president of the Région of Brussels-Capital and member of the executive of Brussels (then still included in the Central government). It is for this reason that it was revoked by the king, by an act contresigned by Wilfried Martens, at the same time as Lucien Outers.