biography
pronunciation:
[mohrwah]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1928– )
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| biography:
| French politician and prime minister (1981–4). He was a teacher before becoming involved with trade unionism and Socialist politics, and was prominent in the creation of a new French Socialist Party in 1971. He became Mayor of Lille in 1973, and was elected to the National Assembly in the same year and then to the Senate (in 1992). A close ally of Mitterrand, Mauroy acted as his spokesman during the Socialists' successful election campaign. |
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