Jean-François Césarini, LREM deputy, died of cancer

Jean-François Cesarini, LREM MP for the first district of Vaucluse, died of cancer this Sunday. Richard Ferrand, President LREM of the National Assembly and deputy of Finistère tweeted this Sunday evening the death of his colleague who was only 50 years old.

With great sadness I learn of the death of our colleague Jean-François Césarini. He had been fighting against the disease for many months, always exercising his mandate and defending his ideas. To his family, loved ones and his team I extend my deep condolences.

The deputies @LaREM_AN are in mourning: our colleague Jean-François Césarini, deputy of Vaucluse, has just left us after many years of a courageous fight against the disease. A man of conviction, he gave our majority a sometimes critical look, never mediocre. pic.twitter.com/u7rbB5IKyF

An elected maverick

The elected official of Vaucluse, from the PS, had in particular "grumbled" by criticizing the pension reform in recent months. This member of the "collective social democrat", which brings together twenty "walkers" with social fiber, had for example launched that Edouard Philippe had "shot himself in the foot" with the pivotal age.

A follower of the tribunes, to the point that some point to a "mania", this wise-looking elected official had co-signed several of them lately, pleading for the reform not to be budgetary. "Not ideal" initiatives, according to the patron of "walkers" Gilles Le Gendre.

Real estate business manager

In Avignon, where he had run for an LREM investiture in the municipal elections in vain, he also distinguished himself by indicating that he would vote for the ecological list. Business manager in real estate and holder of a DEA in philosophy, Jean-François Césarini was not in his first acts of indiscipline, recalled AFP in a portrait dating from January 2020. He had notably illustrated in the fall of 2018 by defending the progressiveness of the CSG on small pensions.

The deputy, who had also pleaded in vain for a "new ISF", hammered however that he is not "rebellious". He alerted in the event of "very liberal drift of the majority", not having "made the campaign of Juppe".

Rocardien then strauss-kahnien, he had notably set up a branch of the Terra Nova think tank (close to the PS) in Vaucluse, joining En Marche "a little year before the election" by Emmanuel Macron.

He discovers his cancer between the two towers

He had discovered between the two legislative rounds that he was sick and has since "always been in chemotherapy every two weeks", remaining active because staying "between four walls would be even harder".

Martine Wonner, member of the collective, saw in him a "collaborative progressive, loyal, strategist, friendly, sensitive, funny", while Matthieu Orphelin (ex-LREM) said he shared "the idea that it is better to express one's convictions than to shut them up. "

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