Paris (AFP)
Deputy La République en Marche du Vaucluse Jean-François Cesarini, 49, died of an illness he had been fighting for months, National Assembly President Richard Ferrand and others reported on Sunday parliamentarians.
"With great sadness I learn of the death of our colleague Jean-François Cesarini. He has been fighting for many months against the disease always while exercising his mandate and defending his ideas. To his family, his close relations and his team i "address my deepest condolences," tweeted Mr. Ferrand.
"Man of convictions, he brought to our majority a sometimes critical look, never mediocre," commented for his part Gilles Le Gendre, president of the group of deputies LREM.
Mr. Cesarini, classified in the left wing of the presidential party, received Sunday evening the homage of several of his colleagues, in particular Mathieu Orphelin (Liberties and territories), who spoke of his cancer diagnosed between the two rounds of the legislative elections of 2017. "You were one of those who put beliefs before instructions, who play politics for and in love with people, who put social justice above everything," wrote Mr. Orphelin.
"Politically opposed I had discovered a courteous and humorous colleague which had allowed us to overcome our differences," tweeted for his part the deputy RN Sébastien Chenu.
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