Jean-Claude Gaudin

Jean -Claude Gaudin ( born October 8, 1939 in Marseille, municipality mazargues ) is a French politician, Senator of Bouches -du -Rhône, mayor of Marseille and President of the Urban Community of Marseille Provence Métropole.

Life

The former teacher of history and geography, who taught for 15 years, has taken part in his early years in political life. In 1965, he became the youngest member of the Marseilles City Council, 1971, he was re-elected.

In 1973, he joined the Républicains Independants ( Independent Republican), a liberal political party in the following year he supported the election campaign Valéry Giscard d' Estaing, the former party leader who became president shortly thereafter.

In March 1978 he won as candidate of the bourgeois-liberal UDF in the second constituency of Bouches -du -Rhône with 53.7 % of the vote a victory against the previous socialist deputies Charles Emile Loo, the he managed to defend well in June 1981. His fellow MPs then pushed him into the party presidency of the UDF. In March 1982, he won on the first startup, the cantonal elections in the twelfth Canton with the historical peak of 72.82 % of all votes cast. In the local elections in 1983 in Marseille, he led the list of opposition against the then socialist Interior Minister Gaston Defferre, which has preserved its long-standing position as mayor despite a projection of 2,497 votes by Gaudin. In 1986, he led in the election of the National Assembly and the regional elections on the lists of the UDF in the department of Bouches -du -Rhône. In direct universal suffrage, he became the first president of the Conseil Régional ( " Regional " ) elected Provence Alpes Côte d' Azur.

Two years later, after the dissolution of the National Assembly, he was re-elected for the fourth time to the MPs in Bouches -du -Rhone, still in the second constituency in Marseille, with over 60 % of the votes cast. His party colleagues again spoke to him their confidence by electing him back into the group's presidency of the UDF in the National Assembly.

March 1989 he was a candidate for the second time for the office of mayor of Marseille, but his attempt failed again. In September of the same year he was a candidate in the Senate elections, because he reckoned that the communities who stand closer Haute Assemblée would allow an addition to its regional by his office, the practice had become more difficult by his deputy's mandate, maneuver gained. Elected there, he helped his deputy, the medical professor Jean -François Mattéi, with success going to replace him in his tribe constituency, Bouches -du -Rhône.

1992 forced the renewal of the Conseil Régional Provence Alpes Côte d' Azur an election in the Gaudin here against the French actor and businessman Bernard Tapie and the right-wing extremist Jean -Marie Le Pen took. Gaudin won the election.

With an absolute majority of the Council of 55 101 votes Gaudin was elected on 25 June 1995 on the mayor of Marseille in September he was elected by the Republican and the independent senators to their parliamentary leader in the Senate. On November 7 of the same year he gave as head of the Ministère de l' Aménagement du Territoire, de la Ville et de l' intégration, which he left in 1997 after dissolution of the National Assembly June, through to the second government of Prime Minister Alain Juppé.

On October 6, 1998, he was Vice President of the Senate. On 15 September 2000, he was elected president of the new Urban Community of Marseille Provence Métropole. They had been created on his initiative to Lyon and Lille Urban Community and the third involved 18 municipalities and 980,000 inhabitants.

2001 and 2008, won re-election as mayor Gaudin of Marseille. On November 17, 2002, he was elected vice-president of the conservative UMP, he was re-elected on 28 November 2004. He managed to make Marseille 2013 European Capital of Culture. An accumulation of offices as Gaudin as a local connection with a national mandate is common in France; the socialist government, however, has announced her battle.

Awards

  • Chevalier d' Ordre des Palmes Académiques
  • Knight of the Legion of Honor
  • Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
  • Officer of the National Order of the République Côte d'Ivoire
  • Grand Officer of the Wissan Al Alaoui (Morocco )
  • Commandeur de l'Ordre de Saint -Charles of the Principality of Monaco
  • Commander of St Gregory
  • Grand Cross Knight Equestrian Order of the Holy grave in Jerusalem
Cantons of France Alps Jean-Marie Le Pen Order of Ouissam Alaouite Order of Saint-Charles Order of St. Gregory the Great Integrated Authority File Victor Leydet Jean-Marie Bayol Francis Giraud
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