Lassalle, Jean

Born May 3, 1955 in Lourdios Isher. In 1969 he graduated from the college in Arete , from 1970 to 1974 he studied at the agricultural lyceum of the city ​​of Pau ^[1] .

In 1977 he was elected mayor of Lourdios Isher.

In 1979, he founded the Land Reclamation Advisory Bureau.

In 1982 he was elected to the general council of the department of the Atlantic Pyrenees from the canton of Accus .

In 1988, he joined the and replaced the National Assembly with a deputy from the Union in support of the Republic, .

From 1989 to 1999, he was the director of the .

In 2002 he was elected to the National Assembly from the 4th district of the department of the Atlantic Pyrenees (subsequently re-elected in 2007 and 2012). In the same 2002 in Quito ( Ecuador ) he was elected the first president of the Association of Mountain People of the World.

In 2006, he attracted public attention, sustaining a hunger strike for 39 days against the transfer of Toyal d'Accous plant from to the town of Lak .

In 2007, he participated in the presidential campaign of Francois Bayrou .

In 2010 he became vice president of the Democratic Movement .

In 2013, from March to April, 5,000 kilometers walked across France, explaining his decision with a desire to learn more about the lives of ordinary French people ^[2] .

In 2015 and 2017 he traveled to Syria, where he met with President Assad (the last time Lassalle traveled with Republican Party deputies Thierry Mariani and and made statements about Assad’s support for Syria’s ongoing civil war ^{[ 3]} ).

In March 2016, he announced his intention to stand as a candidate in the presidential election of 2017 and with this goal left the Democratic movement, having founded the “Let's Resist!” Party (Résistons!).

The Lassalle program envisaged the expansion of communal powers, the partial nationalization of large companies (including the goal of removing them from the management of foreign pension funds), the reorganization of the European Union on the principles of rejecting federalization and returning to the “Europe of nations”, the movement to wider the use of renewable energy to reduce France’s dependence on foreign oil suppliers; returning to a system of universal conscription for young people and girls to become part of life with experience of service for the benefit of society ^[4] .

On April 23, 2017, in the first ballot, he received 1.21% of the vote, taking the seventh place among eleven candidates ^[5] .

July 16, 2017 in pursuance of the new law on the prohibition of combining elective office Lassalle left the post of mayor of Lourdios Ishera, which he held for 40 years, transferring it to his loyal companion Martha Clough, but remained a deputy of the municipal council ^[6] .

Jean Lassalle is the father of French rugby player , a second-line player at Oyonne and Agen . In 2017, he took part in the presidential campaign of his father ^[7] .

• M. Jean Lassalle (Fr.) . National Assembly of France . The appeal date is April 16, 2017.
• Jean Lassalle (Fr.) . Atlantico. The appeal date is April 16, 2017.