Huguette Bouchardeau, 1981 Presidential Candidate, Dies at 90
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Huguette Bouchardeau won 1.10% of the vote in the 1981 presidential election before supporting François Mitterrand in the second round. She then became Secretary of State and then Minister of the Environment in 1984.
Candidate for the 1981 presidential election and then Minister of the Environment, the former National Secretary of the Unified Socialist Party (PSU) between 1979 and 1981 died on 18 May 2026.
"Political woman, tireless feminist activist and companion of the Socialist Party, Huguette Bouchardeau died this Monday, May 18 at the age of 90," the PS said in a press release.
Huguette Bouchardeau died at the age of 90. First woman to lead a political party in France, she left the mark of a constant commitment to women's rights and equality.
Former Minister Huguette Bouchardeau, a feminist activist and candidate in the 1981 presidential election, died on Monday at the age of 90, the Socialist Party announced on Thursday.
Born on 1 June 1935 in Saint-Etienne (Loire) in a modest family, she became, in 1979, the first woman to lead a political organization in France, the Unified Socialist Party (PSU).
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