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Burhan Ghalioun برهان غليون
Ghalioun (centre) speaking to the press in Tunis (2011)
Chairperson of the Syrian National Council
Incumbent
Assumed office 29 August 2011
Deputy	Haitham al-Maleh
Preceded by	Position estabilished
Succeeded by	TBD
Personal details
Born	(1945-02-11) 11 February 1945 (age 67) Homs, Syria
Alma mater	University of Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvelle

Burhan Ghalioun (Arabic: برهان غليون) (born 11 February 1945), is a French Syrian political scientist and a professor of political sociology at the Université de Paris III Sorbonne University in Paris,^[1] and the chairman of the Syrian opposition Transitional National Council. He was named chairman on 29 August 2011.^[2] He is the author of numerous books, dealing which sociological and political issues of the Islamic world, mostly written in Arabic, several of which have been translated into French.

Several Syrian opposition groups see the Paris-based intellectual Burhan Ghalioun as a consensus figure capable of heading a unified opposition coalition or council. Accordingly, Dr. Ghalioun has been named a member of the Syrian Nation Council (SNC), a political body originally formed in 2005^[3] and revived in 2011 to represent Syria by Syrian opposition during the 2011 Syrian uprising.^[4] However, there is no consensus over Ghalioun’s straddling of local and foreign platforms of dissent.

Early political activity[link]

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Ghalion published a pamphlet, "A Manifesto for Democracy," in the late 1970s; it argued that state power in the Arab world had become the enemy of society and called for the implementation of democratic reforms. Ghalioun, who is director of the Centre d'Etudes sur l'Orient Contemporain (CEOC) in Paris and a professor of political sociology at the Université de Paris III (Sorbonne Nouvelle), made these statements when then President Hafez Assad was consolidating power and faced opposition at home, and with Syria engaged in a conflict in Lebanon.

The pamphlet established Ghalioun’s reputation as a critical and engaged thinker: he drew on the European Enlightenment as an inspiration for a new Arab renaissance. Although he shunned party politics during the 1980s and concentrated on intellectual pursuits, his political outlook was broadly opposed to the Syrian authorities and highly supportive of the Palestinian cause.

With political activity in Syria severely constrained after the 1982 Hama massacre, Ghalioun devoted most of his public time to two organizations. For several years, he headed the Syrian Cultural and Social Forum, an association of anti-government Syrian expatriates. He was also one of the founders and active members of the Arab Organization for Human Rights, established in 1983.

Ghalioun always viewed democracy as a remedy for problems within the Arab world, terming it a “historical necessity.” He felt that the Arab administrations emerging from nationalist movements “failed to build modern states or successful economies and turned their states into “personalized” power structures”. He argued that in Syria and other countries, the opposition could be most effective by uniting around the demand for democracy and rejecting all pretexts cited by governments to postpone political or economic reform. Ghalioun declared to western media press that he is willing to meet with Israeli leaders to resolve the Golan Heights dispute between Syria and Israel.

Damascus spring[link]

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Along with other Syrian advocates of change, Ghalioun was an active participant in the Damascus Spring — the brief political opening that followed Bashar Assad’s assumption of power in 2000. He visited Syria frequently during that period. But after the banning of emergent political forums, he returned to his role as writer and commentator and remained a prominent human rights advocate.

In 2005, he became more politically active during the Damascus Declaration and became increasingly associated with the political opposition. But he opposed calls to make common cause with the West in pressuring the Syrian government. He continued to travel to Syria despite regular harassment by Syrian security agencies^{[citation needed]}.

In the course of his political activity, Ghalioun avoided association with any particular group – whether communist, Nasserist, or Islamist^{[citation needed]}.

When the wave of popular protests began in Syria on 15 March 2011, Ghalioun quickly voiced his support. He made a number of media appearances and was heavily engaged, along with other Europe-based dissidents, in efforts to unite exiled Syrian opposition groups.

Political outlook[link]

Ghalioun expressed his views about the tasks facing the Syrian protest movement and the question of dialogue with the government in June. “The regime is not interested in or willing to meet the requirements of a meaningful dialogue,” Ghalioun wrote. The opposition cannot join dialogue with “officials who contributed to or ordered the killing of defenseless children, women, and young people.” He went on to say that such dialogue would be fruitless unless their clear objective was “to dismantle the regime of repression, oppression, and tyranny and replace it with a democratic order in which the people alone have the final say and the government is fully empowered and answerable to elected representatives of the people.”

Ghalioun believes that dialogue should not mean a deal with the government, and must not be about broadening the circle of participation to members of the authorities; he states it should be about a timetable for a transition to democracy by peaceful means, in the hope of avoiding casualties and material losses, and creating conditions for institutions to be launched. Ghalioun feels the government lost its legitimacy to rule when it unleashed violence against protesters.

Ghalioun believes that given the administration's persistent repressive policies and its “refusal to reach an understanding with its people,” Syrians have only two options. They can either unite and cooperate to bring about “a pluralist, civil, democratic order in which all Syrian citizens are equal,” or there will be “a certain slide into violence, anarchy, and destruction.^[5]

On December 2, 2011 Ghalioun said that if his party takes over Syria it would end the military relationship to Iran and cut off arms supplies to Hezbollah and Hamas. ^[6]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Centre des Etudes Arabes at Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3 (French)
• Ghalioun has his own weblog
• Burhan Ghalioun on Twitter

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Alain Juppé
Prime Minister of France
In office 17 May 1995 – 2 June 1997
President	Jacques Chirac
Preceded by	Édouard Balladur
Succeeded by	Lionel Jospin
Minister of Foreign and European Affairs
In office 27 February 2011 – 15 May 2012
Prime Minister	François Fillon
Preceded by	Michèle Alliot-Marie
Succeeded by	Laurent Fabius
In office 29 March 1993 – 18 May 1995
Prime Minister	Édouard Balladur
Preceded by	Roland Dumas
Succeeded by	Hervé de Charette
Minister of Defence and Veterans Affairs
In office 14 November 2010 – 27 February 2011
Prime Minister	François Fillon
Preceded by	Hervé Morin (Defence)
Succeeded by	Gérard Longuet
Minister of Ecology and Sustainable Development
In office 18 May 2007 – 18 June 2007
Prime Minister	François Fillon
Preceded by	Nelly Olin (Environment)
Succeeded by	Jean-Louis Borloo (Ecology, Energy, Sustainable Development and Sea)
Mayor of Bordeaux
Incumbent
Assumed office 8 October 2006
Preceded by	Hugues Martin
In office 19 June 1995 – 13 December 2004
Preceded by	Jacques Chaban-Delmas
Succeeded by	Hugues Martin
Personal details
Born	(1945-08-15) 15 August 1945 (age 66) Mont-de-Marsan, France
Political party	Rally for the Republic (Before 2002) Union for a Popular Movement (2002–present)
Spouse(s)	Christine Leblond (1965–1993) Isabelle Legrand-Bodin (1993–present)
Children	Laurent Marion Clara
Alma mater	Normal Superior School, Paris Institute of Political Studies, Paris National School of Administration, Strasbourg

Alain Marie Juppé (French: [alɛ̃ ʒype]; born 1945) is a French politician who served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2011 to 2012. He also served as Prime Minister of France from 1995 to 1997 under President Jacques Chirac and the Minister of Defence and Veterans Affairs from 2010 to 2011. He had previously served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1993 to 1995, and as Minister of the Budget and Spokesman for the Government from 1986 to 1988.

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. On 10 May 2012 Juppé along with the rest of the cabinet, including Prime minister François Fillon quit following the defeat of President Nicolas Sarkozy in the presidential election. As a result a new cabinet was appointed by François Hollande after he was sworn in as President and Laurent Fabius succeeded him as foreign minister.

Early life[link]

Alain Juppé was born in the commune of Mont-de-Marsan in the department of Landes in south-west France.

Education[link]

• Lycée Victor-Duruy, in Mont-de-Marsan
• Preparatory classes at Lycée Louis-le-Grand in Paris
• Entered École normale supérieure (1964)
• Agrégation de lettres
• Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris (more widely known as Sciences Po) (1968)
• École nationale d'administration (1970–1972)

Political career[link]

Governmental functions

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 : 2011–2012.

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.^[1]

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.

Prime Minister[link]

Because he supported Jacques Chirac against Edouard Balladur during the 1995 presidential campaign, he succeeded him as Prime Minister, also becoming president of the RPR. Jacques Chirac claimed Alain Juppé was "the best among us".

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.

Criminal conviction[link]

In 2004, Alain Juppé was tried for the felony of abuse of public funds, when he was head of the RPR and the RPR illegally used personnel provided by the City of Paris for running its operations. He was convicted and sentenced to an 18-month suspended jail sentence, the deprivation of civic rights for five years, and the deprivation of the right to run for political office for 10 years. He appealed the decision, whereby his disqualification from holding elected office was reduced to one year and the suspended sentence cut to 14 months. He announced he would not appeal the ruling before the Court of Cassation. (See Corruption scandals in the Paris region) As a consequence, Alain Juppé resigned his mayorship of Bordeaux and his position of head of the Bordeaux urban community.

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.^[2]

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.^[3]

Some law professors argued that the Versailles court could not legally exempt Juppé from a disposition of the Electoral Code article L7,^[4][5] 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^[6] 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.^[7] 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.^[8] 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.

Further political career[link]

Juppé was re-elected as Mayor of Bordeaux in October 2006, suggesting that voters had forgiven him for the conviction.

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.^[9] 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.^[10]

On 9 March 2008, Juppé was reelected as Mayor of Bordeaux, winning 56% of the popular vote in the first round.^[11]

In August 2008, he was named in a Rwandan government report on the alleged French connection in the Rwanda genocide.^[12]

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.^[13] He was also awarded on behalf of the Republic of Armenia the Mesrob Mashdots Medal for his service in strengthening and deepening the cooperation between the governments of Armenia and France.^[14]

In 2011, interviewed on the public television channel France 2, Mr Juppé strongly advocated for the creation of a European federation to respond to the euro crisis.^[15]

Juppé's first cabinet, 18 May – 7 November 1995[link]

• Alain Juppé – Prime Minister
• Hervé de Charette – Minister of Foreign Affairs
• Charles Millon – Minister of Defense
• Jean-Louis Debré – Minister of the Interior
• Alain Madelin – Minister of Economy and Finance
• Jacques Toubon – Minister of Justice
• Yves Galland – Minister of Industry
• François Bayrou – Minister of National Education, Vocational Training, Higher Education, and Research
• Jacques Barrot – Minister of Labour, Social Dialogue, and Participation
• Pierre Pasquini – Minister of Veterans and War Victims
• Philippe Douste-Blazy – Minister of Culture
• Philippe Vasseur – Minister of Agriculture, Fish, and Food
• Corinne Lepage – Minister of Environment
• Jean-Jacques de Peretti – Minister of Overseas
• Bernard Pons – Minister of Transport, Regional Planning, and Equipment
• Roger Romani – Minister of Relations with Parliament
• Elisabeth Hubert – Minister of Public Health and Sickness Insurance
• Pierre-André Périssol – Minister of Housing
• Françoise de Panafieu – Minister of Tourism
• François Fillon – Minister of Information Technologies and Post
• Jean Puech – Minister of Civil Service
• Jean-Pierre Raffarin – Minister of Small and Medium-sized Companies, Commerce, and Craft Industry
• Claude Goasguen – Minister of Reform of the State, Decentralization, and Citizenship
• Colette Codaccioni – Minister of Solidarity between Generations
• Eric Raoult – Minister of Integration and Fight against Exclusion
• Jean Arthuis – Minister of Planning

Changes

• 25 August 1995 – Jean Arthuis succeeds Madelin as Minister of Economy and Finance, remaining also Minister of Planning.

Juppé's second cabinet, 7 November 1995 – 4 June 1997[link]

• Alain Juppé – Prime Minister
• Hervé de Charette – Minister of Foreign Affairs
• Charles Millon – Minister of Defense
• Jean-Louis Debré – Minister of the Interior
• Jean Arthuis – Minister of Economy and Finance
• Jacques Toubon – Minister of Justice
• Franck Borotra – Minister of Industry, Posts, and Telecommunications
• François Bayrou – Minister of National Education, Vocational Training, Higher Education, and Research
• Jacques Barrot – Minister of Labour and Social Affairs
• Philippe Douste-Blazy – Minister of Culture
• Philippe Vasseur – Minister of Agriculture, Fish, and Food
• Guy Drut – Minister of Youth and Sport
• Corinne Lepage – Minister of Environment
• Bernard Pons – Minister of Transport, Housing, Tourism, and Equipment
• Roger Romani – Minister of Relations with Parliament
• Dominique Perben – Minister of Civil Service, Reform of the State, and Decentralization
• Jean-Claude Gaudin – Minister of City and Regional Planning
• Jean-Pierre Raffarin – Minister of Small and Medium-sized Companies, Commerce, and Craft Industry

References[link]

Videos[link]

• L'entrée de la Turquie dans l'Union européenne : la perception de l'opinion publique européenne Video conference of Alain Juppé about the Turkish question, given in Montreal in March 2006, Center of international research University of Montreal
• La France, trois mois avant les présidentielles Conference given in Montreal in January 2007, Centro de estudios internacionales de la Universidad de Montreal

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Alain Juppé

• Alain Juppé's weblog

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