Martine Lignières-Cassou (born February 22, 1952 in Algiers

Algiers

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) is a member of the National Assembly of France. She represents the Pyrénées-Atlantiques

Pyrénées-Atlantiques

Pyrénées-Atlantiques is a department in the southwest of France which takes its name from the Pyrenees mountains and the Atlantic Ocean.- History :...

 department, and is a member of the Socialist Party

Socialist Party (France)

The Socialist Party is a social-democratic political party in France and the largest party of the French centre-left. It is one of the two major contemporary political parties in France, along with the center-right Union for a Popular Movement...

 and of the Socialiste, radical, citoyen et divers gauche parliamentary group. She has been the mayor of Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques since 2008. In the 1970s she was a member of the Revolutionary Communist League

Revolutionary Communist League (France)

See Revolutionary Communist League for the other Ligue communiste révolutionnaire.The Revolutionary Communist League was a French democratic revolutionary socialist political party. It was the French section of the Fourth International...

(LCR) before joining the Socialist Party in 1975.