2023-09-29 13:02:28
Dianne Feinstein in Washington, December 8, 2022. J. SCOTT APPLEWHITE / AP
The dean of the American Senate, Dianne Feinstein, historic figure of the Democratic Party, has died at the age of 90, American media announced on Friday, September 29.
The first female mayor of San Francisco, before serving as a California senator for more than thirty years, Ms. Feinstein was recognized as a tenacious politician. But she had been criticized by the left of the Democratic Party for several months after a journalistic investigation which highlighted her cognitive decline.
Punchbowl News, a media specializing in news from the American Congress, provided the information, as did a local ABC channel. The senator voted again in Congress Thursday morning. She announced her political retirement in February, making it known that she would not run again in the 2024 elections. The President of the United States, Joe Biden, then praised the qualities of Dianne Feinstein, a ” close friend “notably evoking her role as a pioneer for women in politics.
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Lingering doubts about its consistency
Dianne Feinstein was mayor of San Francisco for ten years, after the assassination in 1978 of her predecessor, George Moscone, and of the politician Harvey Milk, a figure of the gay movement, a tragedy during which this woman was able to show his determination.
In the Senate, she notably passed the ban – for ten years – on assault rifles in 1994. She also supported George W. Bush’s war in Iraq and established herself as an influential member of the commission intelligence. His report of several thousand pages demonstrating the CIA’s lies about torture under the “war on terrorism” remained in the annals. The California senator has played a leading role in the consideration of hundreds of laws during her career.
In recent years, his own camp has expressed lingering doubts about his consistency. Former parliamentary aides have described episodes of mental confusion, reported in an article in New Yorker at the end of 2020. Her memory lapses also came to light at this time, during the hearing of the ex-boss of X (formerly Twitter), Jack Dorsey, before the Senate: she asked him the same question, word for word, twice in a row. His case was regularly cited during debates on the old age of many elected officials in the United States.
Joe Biden, who is running, is 80 years old, and his competitor and predecessor, Donald Trump, 77 years old. The former Democratic Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, 83, announced in early September that she would be a candidate again in California.
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