2024-01-12 17:44:03
Kremlin-Bicêtre (Val-de-Marne) was “the city of heart” of Jean-Luc Laurent. So quite naturally, she will pay tribute this Saturday to her mayor, who died this Thursday afternoon following a cardiovascular arrest.
The wish ceremony initially planned under the direction of his first deputy Jean-François Delage, due to his hospitalization since December 21, was transformed into an emergency in time of memory.
Former minister Jean-Pierre Chevènement will be present
Many personalities are expected at the Ducasse gymnasium at 6 p.m. Firstly, Jean-Pierre Chevènement, whom he had accompanied in the adventure of the Republican and Citizen Movement (MRC). For the former minister, the death of Jean-Luc Laurent “takes away from us a man of convictions, a long-term activist, a leading official who was for a long time the most valuable collaborator for me”.
… commensurate with the bonds that a lifetime of militant battles had forged between us.
—JP. Chevènement (@chevenement) January 12, 2024
But also the former minister Arnaud Montebourg for whom he campaigned before the presidential election, the Insoumise Mathilde Panot who beat him to the 2017 legislative elections, and of course his socialist friends, senator Laurence Rossignol and even the mayors Laurent Cathala and Luc Carvounas…
Many right-wing figures united
The right will also be united. From the president of the department Olivier Capitanio (LR), who, “beyond political differences”, salutes this Friday morning “a historic actor in his territory”, to the “passionate commitment for his city”, to the president of the region, Valérie Pécresse (Libres!) who honors “a figure of the republican left”.
At the Greater Paris Metropolis where Jean-Luc Laurent sat, Patrick Ollier (LR) remembers from the time when he was a deputy “his sense of dialogue and listening in metropolitan construction”. When Françoise Lecoufle, president of the Association of Mayors of Val-de-Marne, recalls “her sense of public service” and her fight to defend the means of the municipalities, through “the call from the Kremlin”.
Jean-Luc Laurent’s entourage was waiting this Friday at midday for confirmation of the presence of former Prime Minister Bernard Cazeneuve. When the latter launched his Convention movement in Créteil last June, Jean-Luc Laurent was present “as president of the MRC, attached to a dialogue with the entire left, without ostracizing or excluding anyone”, we he explained.
A shower of reactions since this Thursday evening
Likewise, uncertainties still hovered over the arrival of the first secretary of the PS Olivier Faure or even his counterpart Fabien Roussel (PCF) who saluted this Thursday evening “a great servant of the Republic and secularism”.
Many of them reacted in the evening to the announcement of the disappearance of Jean-Luc Laurent, and again this Friday morning, with “emotion”, “sadness” and “shock”. In the municipal majority “that he was able to unite around him”, as Anissa Azzoug recalls on behalf of the PS group, he was “a beacon”. In his party, the MRC, which he has led since 2010, departmental elected official Daniel Guérin considers that he was “an example in public life whose memory will remain and who will continue to guide me”.
“He loved, as much as he mastered, political debate with a capital P”
Emotion also in the Grand Orly Seine Bièvre (GOSB) territory. As vice-president, Jean-Luc Laurent was in charge of cultural facilities. “Passionate about culture, street arts, theater, cinema, exhibitions, he could go to the preview of the film Notre-Dame in Villeneuve-Saint-Georges, participate in the events of the Lavoir Numérique in Gentilly , or even go and rediscover the region’s media and game libraries,” reveals Michel Leprêtre (PCF), president of the GOSB who “liked to debate” with him. “He loved, as much as he mastered, the political debate with a capital P,” he recalls, calling like him to participate this Saturday in the first tribute that will be paid to him.
Tribute to Jean-Luc Laurent, this Saturday, January 13 at 6 p.m., at the Ducasse gymnasium, 5, boulevard Chasteney-de-Géry, in Kremlin-Bicêtre (Val-de-Marne).
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