Keeper of the seals between 2005 and 2007, figure of the republican right, the former deputy of the Loire died on June 21, at the age of 75 years. As minister, he notably defended a compromise text after the fiasco of the Outreau pedophilia affair and set up the “Abduction Alert” device.

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Pascal Clément, member of the Loire for more than thirty years and former Keeper of the Seals, died on June 21, at the age of 75, in Paris, from a lung infection. His family said he had tested negative for Covid-19. The President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, welcomed in a press release an “essential political figure of the department of Loire and the republican right. “

Born May 12, 1945 in Boulogne-Billancourt (Hauts-de-Seine), graduated in law and philosophy, graduated from the Institute of Political Studies in Paris, Pascal Clément embarked, in 1971, on a brief executive career in the American company Rank Xerox, before becoming a lawyer at the Paris Court of Appeal, in 1982.

His political career, started in parallel with the Young Republicans and independents, led him to follow Alain Madelin in his Liberal Democracy movement, of which he took the presidency, then to join the UDF. He was elected mayor of Saint-Marcel-de-Félines, in the Loire region, in 1977, a post he held for twenty-four years, before becoming general counsel for the department, a community which he chaired between 1994 and 2008, and finally deputy in the ranks of the UDF then the UMP from 1978 to 2012. He entered government for the first time as Minister of Edouard Balladur, delegate for relations with Parliament.

Always dreaming of becoming a Keeper of the Seals, the man who campaigned in 1981 against Robert Badinter’s bill to abolish the death penalty was granted in May 2005 when Jacques Chirac chose him to succeed Dominique Perben, after three years. all-out judicial reform.