Former Chiraquian minister Nicole Catala, former deputy for Paris and vice-president of the National Assembly, died Wednesday at the age of 86, we learned from her family.
Committed to the RPR, member of the Economic and Social Council from 1979 to 1984, Nicole Catala was appointed in 1986 Secretary of State to the Minister of National Education, in charge of Vocational Training, by Jacques Chirac.
During the early legislative elections of 1988, she was elected deputy for the 11th district of Paris, then re-elected in 1993 and 1997. This close friend of Philippe Séguin, a lawyer for gender parity in politics, was also vice-president of the National Assembly from 1993 to 1997 and then from 1998 to 2002.
“A woman who has allowed so many others to find a place for themselves”
In the legislative elections of 2002, the UMP preferred to grant its investiture to Secretary of State Dominique Versini. Nicole Catala presents a dissenting candidacy but is eliminated in the first round.
Born February 2, 1936 in Millau (Aveyron), Nicole Catala was an associate by law. She had taught law, economics and social sciences at the University of Paris II. “Tonight we are losing a woman of heart and ideas who has allowed so many others to find a place for themselves,” said Renaissance President of the National Assembly Yaël Braun-Pivet on Twitter.
“From social Gaullism, she was a woman of commitment without counting”, also greeted on Twitter the former LR presidential candidate Valérie Pécresse, while the LR mayor of the 7th arrondissement of Paris Rachida Dati greeted a minister who “ worked actively in favor of vocational training. “A talented academic, she was one of those who had to fight to find a place for herself in the political world,” said MoDem MP Maud Gatel.
Source: 20minutes
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