10 Facts About Pierre Mauroy

Pierre Mauroy died from complications of lung cancer on 7 June 2013 at the age of 84.

The Pierre Mauroy government introduced measures to promote voluntary retirement, early retirement, and improve socio-economic conditions in low-income neighborhoods.

Additionally, the Pierre Mauroy Government promoted arts, culture and education by tripling state aid to the arts, quadrupling spending on public libraries and providing aid to provincial art museums and local archives.

Pierre Mauroy became a leading figure in the Socialist federation of Nord departement, which was among the third biggest of the French Section of the Workers' International party and climbed quickly in the party.

Increasingly, Pierre Mauroy criticized the replacement of former SFIO members from important positions by allies of Mitterrand.

Pierre Mauroy's government was a radical reforming one, implementing a wide range of social reforms including the reduction of the legal workweek from 40 to 39 hours, the limiting of continuous shift working to an average of no more than 35 hours per week, the lowering of the retirement age to 60, and a rise in social welfare benefits.

Pursuant to its campaign pledges, the Pierre Mauroy Government established 14,760 new permanent teaching posts at the elementary and secondary levels in June 1981, and provided for 16,800 more in the 1982 budget and an additional 8,370 in the 1983 budget.

The Pierre Mauroy Government withdrew a ministerial circular issued by the previous government that limited initiatives by regional councils, while a grant was created for the purpose of subsidizing local cultural projects and activities.

The Pierre Mauroy Government did much to promote arts, culture, and education, as characterised by a tripling in real terms in state aid to the arts, a quadrupling of spending on public libraries, which led to the number of library loans growing by a third, and the removal of obstacles to cheaper book-retailing.

Pierre Mauroy allied with the rocardien group and Lionel Jospin's supporters, who came from the mitterrandist group.