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Raymond Forni
President of the National Assembly
In office 29 March 2000 – 18 June 2002
President	Jacques Chirac
Preceded by	Laurent Fabius
Succeeded by	Jean-Louis Debré
President of Franche-Comté
In office 2 April 2004 – 5 January 2008
Deputy	Marie-Marguerite Dufay
Preceded by	Jean-François Humbert
Succeeded by	Marie-Marguerite Dufay
Personal details
Born	(1941-05-20)20 May 1941 Belfort, France
Died	5 January 2008(2008-01-05) (aged 66) Paris, France
Cause of death	Leukemia
Political party	Socialist Party
Alma mater	University of Strasbourg

Raymond Forni (French pronunciation: [ʁɛmɔ̃ fɔʁni]; 20 May 1941 – 5 January 2008) was a French Socialist politician.

Biography

The son of an Italian immigrant from Piedmont, ^[1] Forni was born in Belfort, in 1941. His father died when he was 11. At 17, he had to stop studying, and he started to work as an unskilled worker in Peugeot factories. He finally graduated from high school at 21 and started law studies at the University of Strasbourg. He became a lawyer at the age of 27 years.^{[ citation needed]}

Member of the Socialist Party, his political career started in 1971 when he became municipal council. In 1973, he was elected as deputy of Territoire de Belfort département. He got reelected four times consecutively, until 2002. He was President of the National Assembly from 2000 to 2002. He was president of the Franche-Comté regional council from 2 April 2004, until his death.^{[ citation needed]}

He died in Paris on 5 January 2008, at the age of 66, of leukaemia. ^[2] He was married twice and had five sons.

He was awarded Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland (2000).^{[ citation needed]}

Political career

National Assembly of France

• President of the National Assembly of France: 2000-2002.
• Vice President of the National Assembly: 1991-1993/1998-2000.
• President of Law Committee in the National Assembly: 1981-1985.
• Member of the National Assembly of France for Territoire de Belfort (1st constituency): 1973-1985 (Resignation)/1988-1993/1997-2002.

Regional Council

• President of the Regional Council of Franche-Comté : 2004-2008 (died 2008)
• Regional councillor of Franche-Comté: 2004-2008.

General Council

• General councillor of the Territoire de Belfort : 1976-1982/1987-2001. Elected in 1976, reelected in 1987, 1988, 1994.

Municipal Council

• Mayor of Delle: 1991-2004 (Resignation).
• 1st deputy-mayor of Delle: 1989-91/2004-08 (died 2008)
• Municipal councillor of Delle: 1989-2008 (died 2008)
• Municipal councillor of Montreux-Château (1971–77)
• Municipal councillor of Fontaine: 1983-89

Bibliography

Un enfant de la République (a son of the Republic), in 2002 ( ISBN  2-234-05458-3)

References