Mireille Schurch (born 4 January 1949,
Lignerolles, Allier) was a member of the
Senate of France
The Senate (french: Sénat, ) is the upper house of the French Parliament, with the lower house being the National Assembly, the two houses constituting the legislature of France. The French Senate is made up of 348 senators (''sénateurs'' a ...
, representing the
Allier department as a member of the
Communist, Republican, and Citizen Group
The Communist, Republican, Citizen and Ecologist group (french: groupe communiste, républicain, citoyen et ecologiste) is a parliamentary group in the French Senate, the indirectly elected upper house of the French Parliament. Unlike most other p ...
(''
Union des communistes de France marxiste-léniniste''; UCFml).
Biography
Professor of secondary-school physics, she entered parliamentary politics following Pierre Goldberg, the former deputy mayor of Montlucon, after having been, since May 1968, a militant
Maoist
Maoism, officially called Mao Zedong Thought by the Chinese Communist Party, is a variety of Marxism–Leninism that Mao Zedong developed to realise a socialist revolution in the agricultural, pre-industrial society of the Republic of Ch ...
with the UCFml. She was elected mayor of
Lignerolles in 1995. On 11 July 2004 she was counsel general for the canton of
Montlucon-Sud.
References
Page on the Senate websiteMireille SCHURCH website
People from Allier
1949 births
Living people
French senators of the Fifth Republic
Senators of Allier
French Maoists
Women members of the Senate (France)
Women mayors of places in France
20th-century French women politicians
21st-century French women politicians
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