The elected official “left, surrounded by his family, after several weeks of fighting illness,” said ASFE, the party he created in 2009 and which had three representatives in the upper house.
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The businessman and senator for French people living outside France, Jean-Pierre Bansard, died at the age of 84, announced on Friday August 16 the Central Consistory of which he was president, and the Alliance Solidaire des Français de l’étranger (ASFE), a party founded by the parliamentarian.
“The Consistoire de France is sad to announce the death of Jean-Pierre Bansard, talented entrepreneur and former president of the Central Consistoire”the institution said in a statement, welcoming a “particularly committed philanthropist”A “tireless activist of Franco-Judaism”. Attached to the Senate group Les Républicains, Jean-Pierre Bansard headed the Central Israelite Consistory of France from 1992 to 1994.
Jean-Pierre Bansard “left, surrounded by his family, after several weeks of fighting the illness”said ASFE, a party he created in 2009 and which had three representatives in the upper house. Elected senator in 2017, his election was invalidated by the Constitutional Council in 2018. The businessman and business leader returned to the campaign during the following election, in 2021, and obtained his re-election.