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| Name | Alain Juppé |
|---|---|
| Office | Minister of Foreign and European Affairs |
| Primeminister | François Fillon |
| Term start | 27 February 2011 |
| Predecessor | Michèle Alliot-Marie |
| Primeminister2 | Édouard Balladur |
| Term start2 | 29 March 1993 |
| Term end2 | 18 May 1995 |
| Predecessor2 | Roland Dumas |
| Successor2 | Hervé de Charette |
| Office3 | Minister of Defence and Veterans Affairs |
| Primeminister3 | François Fillon |
| Term start3 | 14 November 2010 |
| Term end3 | 27 February 2011 |
| Predecessor3 | Hervé Morin (Defence) |
| Successor3 | Gérard Longuet |
| Office4 | Prime Minister of France |
| President4 | Jacques Chirac |
| Term start4 | 18 May 1995 |
| Term end4 | 3 June 1997 |
| Predecessor4 | Édouard Balladur |
| Successor4 | Lionel Jospin |
| Office5 | Minister of Ecology and Sustainable Development |
| Primeminister5 | François Fillon |
| Term start5 | 18 May 2007 |
| Term end5 | 18 June 2007 |
| Predecessor5 | Nelly Olin (Environment) |
| Successor5 | Jean-Louis Borloo (Ecology, Energy, Sustainable Development and Sea) |
| Birth date | August 15, 1945 |
| Birth place | Mont-de-Marsan, France |
| Party | Union for a Popular Movement (2002–present) |
| Otherparty | Rally for the Republic (Before 2002) |
| Alma mater | École Normale SupérieureParis Institute of Political ScienceNational School of Administration |
| Profession | Civil servant |
| Religion | Roman Catholicism |
In December 2004, Juppé was convicted of mishandling public funds. His political career was subsequently suspended until he was re-elected as Mayor of Bordeaux in October 2006. He served briefly as Minister of State for Ecology and Sustainable Development in 2007, but resigned in June 2007 after failing in his bid to be re-elected in the 2007 legislative election. He remains the Mayor of Bordeaux.
Prime Minister : 1995–1997.
Minister of Budget and government spokesman : 1986–1988.
Minister of Foreign Affairs : 1993–1995.
Minister of ecology, Development and sustainable Planning : May–June 2007.
Minister of State, Minister of Defense and Veterans Affairs : 2010–2011.
Minister of State, minister of Foreign and European Affairs : Since February 2011.
Electoral mandates
European Parliament
Member of European Parliament : 1984–1986 (Became minister in 1986) / June–October 1989 (Resignation).
National Assembly of France
Member of the National Assembly of France for Paris (18th constituency) : Elected in march 1986 (Became minister in march 1986) / 1988–1993 (Became minister in 1993). Elected in 1986, reelected in 1988, 1993.
Member of the National Assembly of France for Gironde (2nd constituency) : 1997–2004 (Resignation, involved in judicial affairs in 2004). Reelected in 2002.
Regional Council
Regional councillor of Ile-de-France : March–April 1992 (Resignation).
Municipal Council
Mayor of Bordeaux : 1995–2004 (Resignation, involved in judicial affairs in 2004) / Since 2006. Reelected in 2001, 2006.
Municipal councillor of Bordeaux : 1995–2004 (Resignation, involved in judicial affairs in 2004) / Since 2006. Reelected in 2001, 2006.
Deputy-mayor of Paris : 1983–1995. Reelected in 1989.
Councillor of Paris : 1983–1995. Reelected in 1989.
Urban community Council
President of the Urban Community of Bordeaux : 1995–2004 (Resignation, involved in judicial affairs in 2004). Reelected in 2001.
Vice-president of the Urban Community of Bordeaux : Since 2006. Reelected in 2008.
Member of the Urban Community of Bordeaux : 1995–2004 (Resignation, involved in judicial affairs in 2004) / Since 2006. Reelected in 2001, 2006, 2008.
Political functions
President of the Rally for the Republic : 1994–1997.
President of the Union for a Popular Movement : 2002–2004 (Involved in judicial affairs in 2004).
Alain Juppé's profession, outside of politics, is Inspector of Finances, a position from which he was on leave to hold his various elected and appointed offices. He retired from the Inspection of Finances on 1 January 2003.
As a senior civil servant, he met Jacques Chirac at the end of the 1970s and became his adviser in the city council of Paris. He was minister of budget and spokesperson of Jacques Chirac's government from 1986 to 1988. Then, he was secretary general of the Rally for the Republic (Rassemblement pour la République or RPR) political party from 1988 to 1995. In 1993, he was made Édouard Balladur's Foreign Minister.
However, in November/December 1995, his plan for Welfare State reform caused the biggest social conflict since May 68 and, under duress, abandoned it. He became the most unpopular Prime minister of the Fifth Republic (challenged only by Édith Cresson). In spring 1997, President Chirac dissolved the National Assembly but lost the legislative election. Alain Juppé was succeeded by the Socialist Lionel Jospin. Furthermore, Juppé left the leadership of the RPR.
He campaigned for the unification of all the parties of the centre right behind Jacques Chirac. In this, he was considered the architect of the Union for the Presidential Majority which became the Union for a Popular Movement (Union pour un mouvement populaire or UMP), and was its first president from 2002 to 2004.
As a member of the National Assembly (as representative of Paris from 1986 to 1997, then representative of Gironde), he was elected Mayor of Bordeaux in 1995, succeeding former Prime Minister Jacques Chaban-Delmas.
The court commented:
It is regrettable that at the time when the legislative body became aware of the need to end criminal practices which existed for the financing of political parties, Mr Juppé did not apply to his own party the very rules that he had voted for in Parliament.
It is equally regrettable that Mr Juppé, whose intellectual qualities are unanimously recognized, did not judge appropriate to assume before Justice his entire criminal responsibility and kept on denying established facts.
However, Mr Juppé has given himself for many years to the service of the State, while he did obtain no personal enrichment from these crimes he committed for the benefit of his political party, for which he should not be a scapegoat.
Some commentators, such as Jean-Marc Ayrault, head of the National Assembly group of the Socialist Party, have argued that Juppé, in this judicial group, paid for a wider responsibility than his own.
Some law professors argued that the Versailles court could not legally exempt Juppé from a disposition of the Electoral Code article L7, which bars any person sentenced for illegal taking of interests from being on an electoral roll for a period of 5 years, also preventing that person from running for office. Another disposition of the Electoral Code specifies that any person deprived of the right to be on an electoral roll for a certain period following a judicial sentence is deprived of the right of running for the French National Assembly for double that period, which would bar Juppé for 10 years. When Alain Juppé registered again as a voter, other voters sued to have his registration cancelled; however, the Bordeaux court of small claims ruled against them. Some of the plaintiffs declared they would appeal the decision before the Court of Cassation. Another possible issue is that should Alain Juppé be elected to national office, the Constitutional Council could cancel the election on grounds that Juppé was illegally registered as a voter. President Jacques Chirac could have used his right of pardon in favor of Juppé, but this would have probably been politically disastrous. (Le Canard Enchaîné, 22 December 2004).
Juppé considered giving classes on public administration at a variety of prominent United States and Quebec universities and colleges, including the UQÀM in Montreal, some of which were initially receptive to having a former prime minister be a member of their faculty. However, following Juppé's conviction, his appointment was contested by some teachers. Juppé was finally taken in by the École nationale d'administration publique in Montreal where he served as a full-time faculty member for the academic year 2005–2006.
In May 2007, he was appointed Minister of State, Minister of Ecology and Sustainable Development in the Government of François Fillon, being in fact the number two of the Government in protocolar order. This is the third time in the history of Fifth Republic (after Michel Debré and Laurent Fabius) that a former Prime Minister returned as a Minister in another government (although some Presidents of the Council of the Fourth Republic were Ministers of the Fifth Republic).
Juppé ran unsuccessfully in the 2007 legislative elections, and as a consequence announced his resignation from the government. Prime Minister Fillon had announced that all ministers that chose to run in these elections and were beaten would have to leave the government, for it meant that these ministers did not enjoy the confidence of the people.
On 9 March 2008, Juppé was reelected as Mayor of Bordeaux, winning 56% of the popular vote in the first round.
In August 2008, he was named in a Rwandan government report on the alleged French connection in the Rwanda genocide.
In March 2009, he criticized Pope Benedict XVI over his comments that condoms will only worsen the AIDS crisis, saying that as a Christian, he felt that such declarations were totally unacceptable.
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