Gérard Schivardi

Gérard Schivardi

Gérard Schivardi (born April 17, 1950) is a French politician. He contended in the French presidential election of 2007 under the colours of the Workers' Party ("Parti des Travailleurs") of Trotskyist legacy. He came last in the first round of balloting on April 22, obtaining 0.34% of the popular vote (123,540 votes).

Biography

Schivardi was born in 1950 in Narbonne. He is married and a father of two. Schivardi has been a master craftsman mason since 1970, and is still in activity as of 2007.

From 1973 to 1988, he was president of the syndicate of the masons of Aude.

In 1975 he joined the Socialist party. In 1989, he was elected in the city council of Mailhac; in 1995 he became second deputy mayor. He was elected mayor of Mailhac in 2001. He advocated strong public services and increased power and independence of communes, denouncing what he called the "forced intercommunality".

In 2002, Schivardi met Daniel Gluckstein, who convinced him to support his campaign.

In July 2003 he was elected representative of the Canton of Ginestas and resigned form the Socialist Party. He then turned "Independent socialist", and has not been member of a political party since.

On the 20 September 2003, he took position against the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe and founded the "Comité national pour la victoire du vote NON" ("National committee for victory of NO votes").

In 2004, he founded the "National Committee for Defense of Communes and Public Services" ("Comité de défense des communes et des services publics").

On 18 November, he was selected as candidate supported by a "Comité National pour la reconquête de la démocratie" ("National Committee for reconquest of Democracy").

On March 16 2008, he was re-elected as mayor of Mailhac,Aude.

French presidential election of 2007

Schivardi was one of the twelve candidates for the 2007 French presidential election. He was the first "small" candidate to obtain the 500 sponsorships from elected officials which are necessary to become an official candidate.

Schivardi claimed to be an "authentic socialist, independent and no affiliate". He attempted to run as "the mayors' candidate" ("le candidat des maires"), but was barred from doing so after the prime association of French mayors, the "Association des Maires de France", obtained an injunction against Schivardi. [, first vice-president of the Paris court of large claims] A similar decision was reached by the commission overseeing the "official campaign" of the election; an appeal against this decision was rejected by the Constitutional Council. [ [http://www.conseil-constitutionnel.fr/decision/2007/20070405/index.htm Decision of April 5, 2007] of the Constitutional Council regarding the request by Gérard Schivardi ( [http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/WAspad/UnTexteDeJorf?numjo=CSCX0710232S Légifrance] copy)] Schivardi then changed his slogan to "candidat de maires", which may be translated as "candidate of some mayors".

The key proposal of Schivardi's programme was that France should withdraw from the European Union and construct a "Europe of free people and free nations". Several proposals in Schivardi's program, including the election of a new national assembly to suppress the French Fifth Republic's institutions, echo those of Daniel Gluckstein in 2002.

In addition to his far-left-wing base of syndicalists and Workers' Party militants, Schivardi was supported by some mayors affiliated of the Socialist Party, French Communist Party, Union for a Popular Movement or Union for French DemocracyFact|date=July 2007, who don't support the communal policy of their parties.

Schivardi's official site and documentation said that he was supported by the Workers' Party, but he denied being a member of that party, or a trotskyist.

References

External links

* [http://www.schivardi2007.com/ Official campaign web site]


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