Jean-François Cesarini at the National Assembly, in March 2019. – NICOLAS MESSYASZ / SIPA
Jean-François Cesarini, LREM deputy for the first constituency of Vaucluse, died of cancer, just 49 years old. Richard Ferrand, LREM president of the National Assembly and deputy for Finistère, announced the sad news this Sunday evening on Twitter.
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.
– Richard Ferrand (@RichardFerrand) March 29, 2020
MPs @LaREM_AN are in mourning: our colleague Jean-François Césarini, MP for 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
– Gilles Le Gendre (@GillesLeGendre) March 29, 2020
Jean-François Cesarini, classified in the left wing of the presidential party, received 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 make politics for people and loving them, who put social justice above everything,” wrote Mathieu Orphelin (ex-LREM).
An elected maverick
The elected member of Vaucluse, from the PS, had in particular “made moan” by criticizing the pension reform in recent months. This member of the “collective social democrat”, which brings together some 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. Initiatives that were “not ideal”, according to the patron of “walkers” Gilles Le Gendre.
Real estate business manager
In Avignon, where he had run for an LREM nomination in municipal elections in vain, he distinguished himself by indicating that he would vote for the environmental list. A real estate entrepreneur and holder of a DEA in philosophy, also distinguished himself in the fall of 2018 by defending the progressiveness of the CSG on small pensions.
The MP, who had also pleaded in vain for a “new ISF”, however, insisted that he was not a “rebellious”. Rocardien then strauss-kahnien, he had 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” ofEmmanuel Macron.
MP Martine Wonner, saw him as a “collaborative progressive, loyal, strategist, friendly, sensitive, funny”. Matthieu Orphelin greeted him “the idea that it is better to express your convictions than to keep them quiet”.
