Former mayor of Muret and former general councilor, Hélène Mignon has died.
Former socialist vice-president of the National Assembly, ex-general councilor and mayor of Muret, great political figure during thirty years of public life, Hélène Mignon died at the age of 92 at the Trois Fontaines de Muret retirement home where she had been a resident for several years. An allergist doctor, mother of three children, she began her elected career on March 14, 1977 on the municipal council of Seysses, the town where she has always resided. Hélène Mignon was immersed in politics from her childhood, influenced by her grandfather, a committed and resistant schoolteacher, then her father who simultaneously led a career as a lawyer and director of a local newspaper in Algeria. Returning to mainland France, young Hélène began her medical studies while being an activist at the UNEF.
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She is part of this movement of left unity united with Ceres before taking her PS card. Hélène Mignon has given a lot to defend the place of women in public life. She admitted to us that she had been marked by the “macho” way in which Édith Cresson had been welcomed in the hemicycle for her first speech as Prime Minister, “I felt bad for her”, she told us.
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She did not forget this scene. She learned her lessons. Member of Parliament for the 6th constituency of Haute-Garonne from 1988 to 1993 and re-elected in 1997, she held the chair of vice-president of the National Assembly on several occasions, chairing sessions day and night. This position revealed to her qualities that she did not know she had: authority and tolerance. When she chaired her last session in 2007, her colleagues paid her unanimous tribute. Minister Jean-Louis Borloo had a nice little word there.
The Muretains will not forget that she presided over their destiny from 1989 to 1995, at the head of a left-wing municipal team which also included André Mandement, the current mayor, and her lifelong accomplice, Gérard Michaud. It had ended Jacques Douzans’ thirty-six year mandate and he had to “struggle” to clean up local finances, with various loans not allowing heavy investments to be made.
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We nevertheless owe him the flowery path of the northern district, an urban planning philosophy that is today up to date. It also helped to calm Muretan political life by establishing a republican climate. Her social fiber guided her after her mandates since she chaired associations with a social purpose. Hélène Mignon was a knight of the Legion of Honor; distinction given to him in September 2009 by Paulette Guinchard, former Secretary of State for the Elderly in the Jospin government.
Jean-Pierre Roland
