Committed to the RPR, Nicole Catala was appointed in 1986 Secretary of State to the Minister of National Education. She was 86 years old.
Former Chiraquian minister Nicole Catala, former deputy for Paris and vice-president of the National Assembly, died on Wednesday October 19 at the age of 86, AFP learned from her family. “We are losing, tonight, a woman of heart and ideas who has allowed so many others to find a place for themselves.“, said on twitter the president of the National Assembly Yaël Braun-Pivet.
Committed to the RPR, member of the Economic and Social Council from 1979 to 1984, Nicole Catala was appointed in 1986 Secretary of State to the Minister of National Education, in charge of Vocational Training, by Jacques Chirac.
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Vice-President of the National Assembly
During the early legislative elections of 1988, she was elected deputy for the 11th district of Paris, then re-elected in 1993 and 1997. This close friend of Philippe Séguin, a lawyer for gender parity in politics, was also vice-president of the National Assembly from 1993 to 1997 then from 1998 to 2002.
In the legislative elections of 2002, the UMP preferred to grant its investiture to Secretary of State Dominique Versini. Nicole Catala presents a dissenting candidacy but is eliminated in the first round. Born February 2, 1936 in Millau (Aveyron), Nicole Catala was an associate by law. She had taught law, economics and social sciences at the University of Paris II.