Paul Vergès
French politician (1925-2016) · France · On the map · Politicians · Died at 91
Paul Vergès was a Réunionese politician. Born in Ubon Ratchathani, Siam to a French diplomat father and Vietnamese mother. Vergès founded the Communist Party of Réunion in 1960, a party which he led until he retired in 1994.
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He made a political comeback at the 2005 European Parliament elections, when he was elected as the third candidate on the list of the French Communist Party, part of the European United Left-Nordic Green Left group. Vergès sat in the European Parliament's Committee on Development.
