Henri Bangou
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Henri Bangou (born 15 July 1922 in Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe) is a politician from Guadeloupe, mayor of Pointe-à-Pitre from 1965 to 2008 and Senator of Guadeloupe from 1986 to 1995.
Henri Bagou became a member of the French Communist Party (PCF) while a medicine student in metropolitan France. He was then a member of the Guadeloupe Communist Party (PCG) when it was established at the beginning of the French Fifth Republic in 1958, and remained a member until 1991, after the fall of communism, when he led the Pointe-à-Pitre section to split and form the social-democratic Progressive Democratic Party of Guadeloupe (PPDG), of which he was the first president.
He held the following political offices:
- First deputy mayor of Pointe-à-Pitre from 1959 to 1965
- Mayor of Pointe-à-Pitre from 1965 to 2008. He was succeeded by his son Jacques Bangou, who remained mayor until 2019.
- General councillor of Guadeloupe from 1967 to 1989
- Regional councillor of Guadeloupe from 1975 to 1986
- Senator of Guadeloupe from 1986 to 1995.
His wife Marcelle died in June 2014, at the age of 91.[1]
He turned 100 on 15 July 2022.[2]
References
- ^ "Marcelle Bangou est décédée". France-Antilles. 22 June 2014. Retrieved 29 December 2021.
- ^ "Hommage. Henri Bangou a 100 ans !" (in French). karibinfo.com. Retrieved 1 August 2022.
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