Jacques Cheminade, born August 20, 1941 in Buenos Aires, Argentina

Argentina

Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

, is a French political activist. He is associated with the LaRouche movement

LaRouche movement

The LaRouche movement is an international political and cultural network that promotes Lyndon LaRouche and his ideas. It has included scores of organizations and companies around the world. Their activities include campaigning, private intelligence gathering, and publishing numerous periodicals,...

, an international network of groups led by the American political activist, Lyndon LaRouche

Lyndon LaRouche

Lyndon Hermyle LaRouche, Jr. is an American political activist and founder of a network of political committees, parties, and publications known collectively as the LaRouche movement...

. He was a candidate for the French presidential election, 1995

French presidential election, 1995

Presidential elections took place in France on 23 April and 7 May 1995, to elect the fifth president of the Fifth Republic.The incumbent Socialist president, François Mitterrand, did not stand for a third term. He was 78, had cancer, and his party had lost the previous legislative election in a...

 with 0.28 % of the votes. In the 2007 French presidential race, he endorsed Ségolène Royal

Ségolène Royal

Marie-Ségolène Royal , known as Ségolène Royal, is a French politician. She is the president of the Poitou-Charentes Regional Council, a former member of the National Assembly, a former government minister, and a prominent member of the French Socialist Party...

. He is now a candidate for the 2012 presidential election.

Education

Cheminade is a graduate of École des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC) and École nationale d'administration

École nationale d'administration

The École Nationale d'Administration , one of the most prestigious of French graduate schools , was created in 1945 by Charles de Gaulle to democratise access to the senior civil service. It is now entrusted with the selection and initial training of senior French officials...

 (ENA) graduate-group Jean Jaurès

Jean Jaurès

Jean Léon Jaurès was a French Socialist leader. Initially an Opportunist Republican, he evolved into one of the first social democrats, becoming the leader, in 1902, of the French Socialist Party, which opposed Jules Guesde's revolutionary Socialist Party of France. Both parties merged in 1905 in...

 1967-1969. He also has a bachelor's degree in law

Bachelor of Laws

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.

Connection to the LaRouche movement

Cheminade met Lyndon LaRouche in 1977 and joined his movement in France. He was appointed general secretary of the Parti Ouvrier Européen (POE: see European Workers Party

European Workers Party

The European Workers' Party is a very small political party in Sweden without parliamentary representation. The party is the Swedish section of the LaRouche Movement.-History:...

) from 1982 to 1989. The POE was replaced in 1991 by the Fédération pour une Nouvelle Solidarité (FNS, Federation for a New Solidarity).

Since 1996, he has been the chairman of one of LaRouche's political parties, Solidarité et Progrès (Solidarity and Progress). He is a regular columnist in their weekly newspaper Nouvelle Solidarité.

Recent activities

In November 2005, Cheminade was a panelist at the conference of Axis for Peace

Axis for Peace

Axis for Peace was a conference organised by Voltaire Network to"gather political and intellectual personalities... already committed against the war logic and who wish to install a permanent structure that could make the voice of peace be heard."...

 in Belgium

Belgium

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.http://www.axisforpeace.net/rubrique41.html

External links

• Transcript of an interview with Cheminade
• Mémoire sur Jacques Cheminade, candidat à l'élection présidentielle de 1995 (in French)
• Cheminade for the 2012 presidential elections (in French)
• Solidarité et Progrès website (in French)