Brice Hortefeux
Brice Hortefeux ( born May 11, 1958 in Neuilly -sur -Seine ) is a French politician ( UMP) and Member of the European Parliament. Previously, he served as of June 23, 2009 to February 27, 2011 Minister of the Interior in the government under the leadership of Prime Minister François Fillon.
Background and education
Hortefeux was born the son of a banker and a history teacher in the Paris suburb of Neuilly -sur -Seine. In 1982 he completed his studies in private law from 1984 in Public Law. The Institut d' études politiques de Paris ( IEP) in Paris, he left in 1986 without a degree, as he had territorial successfully passed the entrance exam for the state's administrative career of a Administrateur and in the Strasbourg Institut national des études entered territorial.
Political career
From 1986 to 1993 he worked as a civil servant from 1993 to 1995, he was bureau chief of the then budget minister Nicolas Sarkozy. Later he became a prefect and 1998-1999 senior officer in the Senate President 's office.
He was elected to the Regional Council of Auvergne in 1992, where he was Chairman of the Budget Committee from 1998 to 2004. He is secretary of the Conservative Party RPR in the département of Puy -de- Dôme, since 1998 Executive functions of this party since 1991. In the follow UMP party, he took over the chairmanship of the department, and in 2004 he became deputy secretary general of the party as a whole. In 2007 he was part of the interim party leadership, as Sarkozy after his election as president in resigned the party chairmanship. Since October 2008, Hortefeux is secretary of the UMP for the preparation of the elections.
In September 1999, he retired as substitutes for Nicolas Sarkozy in the European Parliament, which gave be obtained at the European elections in June 1999 mandate after a few months. Also in the 2004 European election Hortefeux was elected to the European Parliament. After he joined as Deputy Minister of Territorial Administration in the Ministry of Interior in June 2005, he resigned from his position as European parliamentarians.
In the government of Prime Minister François Fillon, he was in 2007 Minister for Immigration, Integration, National Identity and Cooperative Development in May. Of 15 January 2009 Hortefeux was Minister of Labour, Social Relations, Family, Solidarity and Urban Policy in the government of François Fillon and changed on 23 June 2009 at a reshuffle in the Ministry of Interior. From this position he left when a new cabinet reshuffle on February 27, 2011.
In the European elections in France in 2009 Hortefeux again won a seat in the European Parliament, the mandate but not initially approached to continue to stay in the French government. In its place, Catherine Soullie took over the seat after Hortefeux ' departure from the French Cabinet, however, declared Soullie their renunciation of the mandate, so Hortefeux again moved as substitutes in the Parliament on 24 March 2011. He is a member of the Committee on Regional Development.
Controversies
During the summer camps 2009, the UMP in Seignosse Hortefeux told a young party member of North African origin, this does not correspond to the " prototype ". He added that the presence of such a man is not bad, but it 'll cause problems if there are many ( " Quand il y en a un, ça va. C'est quand il y en a beaucoup qu'il ya des problèmes "). From the Home Secretary unnoticed, this statement was recorded by a film crew and posted the video on the website of the daily newspaper Le Monde. Hortefeux tried several times to counteract the rise of racism accusations by claiming ultimately, he did not refer to the ethnic origin of the person and the remark was directed jokingly against the inhabitants of Auvergne. However, a French court sentenced him on 4 June 2010 because of racist insult ( injure raciale ) to a fine of 750 euros. Never before has a Minister of the Fifth Republic was convicted of this offense.
Private
Since 1976, Brice Hortefeux, one of the closest confidants Nicolas Sarkozy. He has appeared on, among other things as best man at Sarkozy's first marriage, and as the godfather of one of his sons. (: Porter approximately ) by Nicolas Sarkozy awarded in the French press him the attribute " le porte- flingue " was.
Works
- With André Levôtre: Jardin à la française - plea pour une république de proximité. Paris 2003.