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The left demands entry to the Pantheon of Ambroise Croizat, one of the fathers of Social Security

2021-01-28T11:43:32.122Z


Olivier Faure, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, Philippe Martinez are among the signatories of a petition demanding the entry of the father of Social Security into the Parisian monument.


Things are agitated in the Pantheon.

While Emmanuel Macron rejected the idea of ​​a pantheonization of Rimbaud and Verlaine, that a consultation would be about to begin on that of Gisèle Halimi and that another campaign has just called for considering the arrival of Molière within the “

Great men

”, several figures of the left are mobilizing for the entry into the Pantheon of Ambroise Croizat, the builder of the social security.

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The appeal, published Thursday in

L'Humanité

on the occasion of the 120th anniversary of the birth of Ambroise Croizat (1901-1951), highlights the commitment of the politician who, as Minister of Labor from 1945 to 1947, implemented the establishment of Social Security.

"

We must measure the civilizing work of Ambroise Croizat for what it is: a fundamental, revolutionary step in the search for a better life which has always animated humanity

" evokes the petition, which also praises its objective “

to break the anxiety of the next day, illness or work accident

”.

We must measure the civilizing work of Ambroise Croizat for what it is: a fundamental, revolutionary step in the search for a better life which has always animated humanity.

Extract from the petition “Ambroise Croizat deserves to enter the Panthéon”, published in L'Humanité on Wednesday January 28, 2020.

In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, the signatories also wished to recall the importance of Social Security, "

a heritage which is neither to museum nor to varnish, but to maintain and develop more and more, in accordance with its initial philosophy , as a common good, as shown by the Covid-19 crisis

”.

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The petition was signed by 19 political, union and intellectual figures of the left, including Julien Bayou (EELV), Jean-Luc Mélenchon (France Insoumise), Olivier Faure (PS), Pierre Laurent (PCF), Fabien Roussel (PCF) ), the secretary general of the CGT Philippe Martinez or the sociologist and economist Bernard Friot.

CGT trade unionist, elected Communist deputy in 1936, Ambroise Croizat died at the age of 50 in 1951. According to the signatories, his entry into the Pantheon, with his wife Denise, would already be "

desired

" by his family.

The last figures to have joined the “

Temple

” of the Republic were Maurice Genevoix in 2020, as well as Simone and Antoine Veil in 2018.

Source: lefigaro

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