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Malek Boutih is a French politician. His parents were immigrants from Algeria. Since 2003, he has been the national secretary of the Socialist party in charge of social issues (secrétaire national chargé des questions de société).

Malek Boutih discovered politics during his law studies at the University of Nanterre. He joined SOS Racisme, a civil rights organisation with close ties to the Socialist party, in 1984 and served as its vice-president from 1985 to 1992. He was the president of SOS Racisme from 1999 to 2003.

He has been an adherent of the Socialist Party since 1986 and joined its direction during the Congress of Dijon in the spring of 2003. As secretary national in charge of social issues, he is in charge of issues such as immigration, AIDS, and drug addiction.

In 2003, Malek Boutih said on television that he is not Muslim and he eats pork.^[1]

Close to Julien Dray, a former member of SOS Racisme, he supported Ségolène Royal during the campaign for Socialist investiture in 2006, and is a candidate in the 4th district of Charente for the 2007 legislative elections. He collected 15.65% of the votes (9.54% of the registered voters) and was therefore not qualified for the second round.

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Luc Ferry
Minister for Youth, National Education and Research Ministre de la Jeunesse, de l'Éducation nationale et de la Recherche
In office 7 May 2002 – 31 March 2004
President	Jacques Chirac
Prime Minister	Jean-Pierre Raffarin
Preceded by	Jack Lang
Succeeded by	François Fillon
Personal details
Born	(1951-01-01) 1 January 1951 (age 61) Colombes, France
Political party	UMP
Profession	Philosopher

Luc Ferry (born January 1, 1951 in Colombes, Hauts-de-Seine) is a French philosopher and a notable proponent of Secular Humanism. He is a former member of the Saint-Simon Foundation think-tank.

He received an Agrégation de philosophie (1975), a Doctorat d’Etat en science politique (1981), and an Agrégation de science politique (1982). As a Professor of political science and political philosophy, Luc Ferry taught at the Institut d'études politiques de Lyon (1982–1988) — during which time he also taught and directed graduate research at the Pantheon-Sorbonne University —, at Caen University (1989–96), and at Paris Diderot University (since 1996).

From 2002 and until 2004 he served as the Minister of Education on the cabinet led by the conservative Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin. During his tenure, he was the minister in charge of the implementation of the French law on secularity and conspicuous religious symbols in schools. He received the award of Docteur honoris causa from the Université de Sherbrooke (Canada). He is the 2013 Telesio Galilei Academy of science Laureate for Philosophy. He was enthroned to Chevalier De La Dive Bouteille De Gaillac on the 20 march 2012 together with Max Karoubi and Francesco Fucilla.

Controversies[link]

In June 2011, Ferry announced on television that he knew about a former minister who had sexually abused little boys in an orgy in Morocco.^[1][2] According to him, the case was known at the highest levels on the French state, but he provided no specifics as to the persons involved, citing the risk of being sued for libel. A criminal investigation was then opened and he was asked to cooperate with the prosecutors.

In June 2011, Le Canard Enchaîné, Le Monde and other media^[3][4] revealed that Luc Ferry, a professor at Paris Diderot University since 1996 (or 1997, depending on sources) had not ever taught there — when he was minister, he was on leave, and when not on leave his obligation to teach was waived in order for him to undertake other official duties, some of which came with compensation pay, while he was still paid as a professor. In 2010, however, the University became financially autonomous and did not want to have professors on its payroll that did not teach; it then required Luc Ferry to do his allocated teaching share, which he declined to do. In 2011, according to some sources, the university is threatening to get him to refund his salary (4500€ per month).

Works[link]

• La pensée '68 (1985)
• Homo Aestheticus (1990)
• The New Ecological Order (1992)
• Rights: The New Quarrel Between the Ancients and the Moderns
• Man Made God: The Meaning of Life (1992)
• The Wisdom of the Moderns (1998)
• Political Philosophy
• French Philosophy of the 60s with Alain Renaut
• Why We Are Not Nietzscheans, editor with Alain Renaut
• "Qu'est-ce qu'une vie reussie?", (2002) Editions Grasset & Fasquelle
• Le religieux après la religion (2004) with Marcel Gauchet
• Apprendre à vivre (2006)
• Vaincre les peurs. La philosophie comme amour de la sagesse,(2006), éditions Odile Jacob.
• Kant. Une lecture des trois Critiques,(2006), éditions Grasset.
• Familles, je vous aime : Politique et vie privée à l'âge de la mondialisation,(2007), XO Editions.
• La tentation du christianisme with Lucien Jerphagnon, (2009), éditions Grasset.

External links[link]

1. ^ "Minister pedophile: Ferry heard at the juvenile", economicsnewspaper.com. June 3, 2011. Accessed June 8, 2011
2. ^ "Former minister's allegation of paedophilia investigated", France 24. June 2, 2011. Accessed June 8, 2011
3. ^ Le Monde, 7 juin 2011, « Avec la loi sur l'autonomie, Luc Ferry ne peut plus sécher ses cours »
4. ^ Libération, 8 juin 2011, Ferry sèche ses cours de philo à la fac  »

Gérard Longuet
Minister of Defence and Veterans Affairs
In office 27 February 2011 – 15 May 2012
Prime Minister	François Fillon
Preceded by	Alain Juppé
Succeeded by	Jean-Yves Le Drian
Personal details
Born	(1946-02-21) 21 February 1946 (age 66) Neuilly-sur-Seine, France
Political party	Republican Party (Before 1997) Liberal Democracy (1997–1998) Independent Republican and Liberal Pole (1998) Union for French Democracy (1998–2002) Union for a Popular Movement (2002–present)
Alma mater	Institute of Political Studies, Paris National School of Administration, Strasbourg

Gérard Longuet (born 21 February 1946 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine) is a French conservative politician. He served as French Defense Minister from 27 February 2011 until 15 May 2012.^[1]

Biography[link]

When he was young, he was part of an extreme right-wing movement called Occident.^[2] During the early 1990s Longuet was president of the Republican Party and served as Industry Minister until he resigned in 1994.^[3]

Before his appointment as Defense Minister, he was the leader of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) in the Senate.^[4] Formerly Longuet was a member of the National Assembly of France, Cabinet Minister, and Member of the European Parliament. He became President of the Conseil régional de Lorraine in 1992. In 2002 while he still at this function, Nicolas Sarkozy is Ministre de l'Intérieur and the first operations of the GIR are made at the Haut-du-Lièvre in Nancy.

In 2005 he was found not guilty in a trial over claims that construction companies had paid money to political parties in return for contracts.^[5]

In 2008, he compared homosexuality to pedophilia, and he said gay pride parades may lead LGBT teenagers to suicide.^[6][7] He has said he doesn't remember saying it, even though there is footage of it.^[8]

Political career[link]

Governmental functions

Minister of Defence and Veterand affairs : 2011-2012.

Minister of Industry, Posts and Telecommunications, and Foreign Trade : 1993–1994 (Resignation).

Minister of Posts and Telecommunications : 1986–1988.

Secretary of State for Posts and Telecommunications : March–August 1986.

Electoral mandates

European Parliament

Member of European Parliament : 1984–1986 (He became minister in 1986).

Senate of France

President of the UMP Group in the Senate of France : 2009–2011 (Became minister in 2011).

Senator of Meuse : 2001–2011 (Became minister in 2011). Elected in 2001, reelected in 2011 but he stays as minister.

National Assembly of France

Member of the National Assembly of France for Meuse (1st constituency) : 1978–1981 / Reelected in 1986 but he became minister / 1988–1993 (Became minister in 1993). Elected in 1978, reelected in 1986, 1988, 1993.

Regional Council

President of the Regional Council of Lorraine (region) : 1992–2004. Reelected in 1998.

Regiona councillor of Lorraine (region) : 1992–2010 (Resignation). Reelected in 1998, 2004, 2010.

General council

Vice-president of the General council of Meuse : 1982–1986.

General councillor of Meuse : 1979–1992 / 1998–2001 (Resignation). Reelected in 1985, 1998.

Municipal council

Municipal councillor of Bar-le-Duc : 1983–1989.

Political functions

President of the Republican Party (France) : 1990–1995.

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