Former minister Jean-Pierre Soisson dies at 89. Soisson was several times minister, deputy for Yonne and mayor of Auxerre.
He died of cancer, his son David Soisson said. He had been fighting cancer for many years, he said. The former politician was a member of the right-wing Les Régions Nationales (LRN), a political party that has been in power since the 1980s. He was also a former mayor of the town of Auxerre, where he served as mayor from 1983 to 1988.