Ã‰douard Balladur

Édouard Balladur ( born 2 May 1929 in İzmir, Turkey ) is a French Gaullist politician (RPR, UMP). It was from March 29, 1993 to May 16, 1995 Prime Minister of the French Republic.

Career

Balladur comes from an Armenian banker and merchant family from the Ottoman İzmir. 1935 the family moved Balladur with their five children, an apartment on the Boulevard Chave in Marseille. Despite some limitations compared to their situation in İzmir, the family lived in middle-class family. With 6 years Balladur was admitted to an institution of the Diocese of Jean -Baptiste -de- la- Salle, subsequently in 1942 the Thiers -Gymnasium. Balladur was later Provence always very connected.

First Balladur wanted to be a doctor, but then decided to study law. He attended two elite high schools. He first studied at the Institut d' études politiques in Paris, with public services as a priority. In 1950 he took his diploma in reception. Some time preventing him from tuberculosis in the continuation of his studies, but after his recovery in 1955 he took it up again, this time at the School of Administration ENA, born in 1957, graduating class " France- Afrique ". Already during his studies he made with Jacques Monod, Pierre Verbrugghe, a former prefect of police of Paris, Jacques Calvet, former CEO of Peugeot, and Jean Dromer, former CEO of Louis Vuitton, a small working group. After his first year, he completed the compulsory internship in the prefecture of the Charente. His interim work still treated the subject of the Law of Barange and construction activities for schools, but in the second year, he devoted himself to the social sector.

Professional career

He then took over the management of Radio Télévision Française, around 1964 to switch to the cabinet of Georges Pompidou, where he stood at the time of completion of the Grenelle following the events of May 1968 as a consultant. As Pompidou During that same year's presidential election for himself, he finally appointed Balladur first Deputy, 1974 Secretary of State. In 1967 he was admitted to the Board of ORTF, a year later in the national forest office and was president of the Society for the construction and use of the Mont Blanc tunnel.

1974, after the election of Valéry Giscard d' Estaing as president, he returned to the State Council. In 1977 he found himself at the head of a subsidiary of Compagnie Générale d' Electricité (CGE ) is set, an energy company that later became Alcatel include Générale de service informatique (GSI ), which is responsible for computer science services. In 1980 he took over the management board of another subsidiary of the group: the European Society of accumulators.

Political career

In March 1986, he was a candidate for the party RPR and was elected a deputy of Paris. Jacques Chirac, the first Prime Minister of the first cohabitation, appointed him Minister of State of Economy and Finance, responsible for privatization. He left the post in May 1988, before he was re-elected.

After the victory of right-wing parties in 1993 he graduated with an agreement and Chirac became prime minister, in turn, Chirac was preparing for the presidential elections in 1995. After his popularity rose in office, he decided to let himself up next to Chirac as a candidate for the presidential election, and was supported by some of the leading members of the RPR, including Nicolas Sarkozy. However, he dropped out in the first round and Chirac was elected president. He cleared his post as prime minister and focused back on his seat. As a member of the Council of Paris, he was beaten in the struggle for civil Championship by Philippe Séguin. Also in the XII. Legislative period (2002-2007) was Balladur Member of the National Assembly for the 12th electoral district of Paris; this time as a member of the newly formed UMP party and head of the Commission for Foreign Affairs, after his opponent was able to win in the elections to the presidency of the National Assembly Jean-Louis Debré choices for themselves.

Government functions

Political mandates

Member of the City Council of Paris (since 1989)
Member of the Regional Council of Ile- de -France ( 1998)
Member of the National Assembly (1988-1993, 1995-2007)

Awards

Works

The Maypole (1979 )
I think more to the people than to the State (1987 )
Passion and persistence (1989 )
Twelve letters to be quiet French (1990 )
Ways and beliefs (1992 )
Dictionary of the reform ( 1992)

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