Jacques Cheminade

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Jacques Cheminade next to Helga Zepp-LaRouche

Jacques Cheminade, born August 20, 1941 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, is a French politician. He is graduate of École des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC) and École nationale d'administration (ENA) graduate-group Jean Jaurès 1967-1969, and also has a bachelor's degree in law.

In 1977 he met the American political activist Lyndon LaRouche and joined his movement in France. He was appointed general secretary of the French equivalent of the Lyndon LaRouche Movement's United States Labor Party (USLP); the Parti Ouvrier Européen (POE, European Labor Party- see European Workers Party) from 1982 to 1989. The POE was replaced in 1991 by the Fédération pour une Nouvelle Solidarité (FNS, Federation for a New Solidarity) because of financial and judicial difficulties. He was candidate for the French presidential election, 1995 with 0,28 % of the votes. Since 1996 he is the chairman of the French political party Solidarité et Progrès (Solidarity and Progress), still associated with Lyndon LaRouche. He is a regular columnist in their weekly newspaper Nouvelle Solidarité. His political movement is quasi inexistent in France and his permanent staff hardly ever exceeded 30.

In early 2003, a young British student at the Sorbonne in Paris Jeremiah Duggan came in contact with his movement and was invited to attend a Schiller Institute political conference in Wiesbaden, Germany where the European center of the LaRouche network is based. Jeremiah died after being hit by several cars while running down the middle of a busy road near Wiesbaden. The circumstances of his death are controversial.