Pierre Mauroy, former French Prime Minister and mayor of Lille, arrives to vote in the first round of the 2012 French presidential election at a polling station in Lille in this April 22, 2012 file picture. REUTERS/Jean-Yves Bonvarlet/Files
PARIS (Reuters) - Former French prime minister Pierre Mauroy, who pushed through a string of worker benefits as the head of modern France's first Socialist government, has died aged 84, the government said on Friday.
Mauroy had been admitted to a hospital in the Paris region last weekend, a year after undergoing surgery for a cancerous tumour in his lung.
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