Alain Juppé

Alain Juppé [ alɛ ʒype ] ( born August 15, 1945 in Mont -de- Marsan ) is a French politician of the Gaullist current.

His political career began Juppe as a speechwriter for Jacques Chirac, in the 1980s he was also a minister in his government. He also had 30 March 1993 to 11 May 1995 Édouard Balladur held the office of Minister of Foreign Affairs and was on May 18, 1995 to June 2, 1997 Prime Minister. On 18 May 2007, he was appointed Minister of State ( Deputy Prime Minister ) and Minister for Ecology, Sustainable Development, Energy and Transport under François Fillon appointed. On June 17, 2007, he announced his resignation from his position known, since in June 2007, he could not get a mandate in the parliamentary elections in France. 14 November 2010 Juppé was appointed minister of defense and again to the state minister in the government of François Fillon. On 27 February 2011 he was again appointed Secretary of State. On May 17, 2012 his term ended as French Foreign Minister.

Education history

Alain Juppe is the son of Marie (1910-2004) and Robert Juppe, both supporters of the conservative Gaullists.

His school days in high school Victor Duruy in Mont -de- Marsan (Landes) is very successful. At age 17, he graduated from high school there. In Parisian lycée Louis -le- Grand, he prepares for the École Normale Supérieure (ENS ), in which he recorded in 1964. This is followed by years of study in the Institute d' études politiques (IEP ) ( 1968) and the École nationale d'administration (ENA ) ( 1970-1972 ), which are briefly interrupted by his military service ( 1969-1970 ).

Political career

Alain Juppe admits to have voted in the presidential election in 1969 for Alain Krivine ( Ligue Communiste ). From 1972 to 1976 he was a financial inspector.

In 1976, he was a close colleague of Prime Minister Jacques Chirac. In the same year he stood unsuccessfully for election to the French National Assembly in Mont -de- Marsan as a candidate of the Rassemblement pour la République (RPR ). He then worked at the side of the mayor of Paris Jacques Chirac. In 1979 he was elected to the board of RPR and appointed Assistant Professor of Financial Management and Economic Affairs of the city of Paris.

Of 20 March 1986 until 10 May 1988, he held the post of Minister of the State Budget in the government of Jacques Chirac. He was elected to the European Parliament in 1989. From March 30 1993 to May 18, 1995, he practiced in the government Édouard Balladur from the office of Foreign Minister. 1994 to 1997 he was the successor Jacques Chirac President of the RPR.

With the victory of Jacques Chirac in the presidential election in 1995, Alain Juppé was appointed Prime Minister. In June of 1995 he was additionally elected mayor of the city of Bordeaux, replacing its predecessor, Jacques Chaban -Delmas, who has held the post since 1947. After the electoral defeat of the bourgeois camp in the 1997 parliamentary elections Juppe had to relinquish the post of Prime Minister Lionel Jospin to. But he was elected a deputy in the French National Assembly for the department of Gironde and re-elected in 2002.

2002 Juppé Chairman of the newly formed Union pour un mouvement populaire (UMP ), the successor party to the RPR.

On 1 December 2004 Alain Juppe was sentenced in Versailles for his involvement in a scandal over illegal party financing to 14 months in prison on probation. At the same time stand for election for one year was revoked. Then he was forced to resign from all his political offices. The Office of the Mayor of Bordeaux was taken over by his deputy Hugues Martin. Chairman of the UMP, Nicolas Sarkozy. 2006 Alain Juppé was re- Mayor of Bordeaux.

After the victory of Nicolas Sarkozy in the 2007 presidential election Juppé was appointed Minister of State and Minister of Environment in the government of François Fillon (Cabinet Fillon I). After he was not re-elected to the National Assembly in the parliamentary election in 2007, he resigned from his ministerial office.

He was re-appointed Minister of State, Minister for Defence and veteran Francois Fillon (Cabinet Fillon III) On November 14, 2010. On 27 February 2011 he was appointed as successor to the retiring Michèle Alliot-Marie, Minister of Foreign Affairs, while maintaining the position as Minister of State. In Defense Gerard Longuet followed after him. After the election defeat Nicolas Sarkozy in the 2012 presidential election Juppé resigned from these functions.

In 2011, he has assisted in an interview with France 2 establishing the European Federation.

Juppe was considered a potential candidate for the party leadership of the UMP, Sarkozy after the withdrawal from politics. He graduated on 27 August 2012, a final candidate from after he had previously stated to stand only as a consensus candidate available. The violent clashes between Jean -François Cope and Francois Fillon after the disputed re-election of the party presidency Juppé was considered a possible mediator, but failed with this offer.

Juppe is considered one of the most influential people in the UMP and a possible candidate of the party in the presidential election of 2017.

Political functions

Government

• Minister of State, Secretary of State: 2011 - 2012
• Minister of State, Secretary of Defense: 2010-2011
• Minister of State, Minister of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Spatial Planning: May- June 2007
• Prime Minister: 1995-1997
• Secretary of State: 1993-1995
• Minister for the Budget, the Government spokesman: 1986-1988

MPs mandates

• Deputy in the National Assembly for the department of Gironde ( 2nd district ): 1997-2004 ( disqualification by withdrawing eligibility )
• Deputy in the National Assembly for Paris ( 18th district ): 1986 / 1988 to 1993
• Member of European Parliament: 1984-1986

Local mandates

• Mayor of Bordeaux: 1995-2004 (Official loss by withdrawing eligibility ) / since 2006
• Vice - President of the Communauté Urbaine de Bordeaux: Since 2006
• Councilor of Bordeaux: 1995-2004 ( disqualification by withdrawing eligibility ) / since 2006
• Member of the Communauté Urbaine de Bordeaux: 1995-2004 / since 2006
• President of the Communauté Urbaine de Bordeaux: 1995-2004 (Official loss by withdrawing eligibility )
• Deputy Mayor of Paris: 1983-1995
• City Council of Paris: 1983-1995

Party functions

• President of the Union pour un Mouvement Populaire: 2002-2004
• President of the Rassemblement pour la République: 1994-1997
• Secretary General of the Rassemblement pour la République: 1988-1994

The case Juppe

In June 1995, the Paris satirical weekly Le Canard enchaîné published an internal document of the city of Paris, which was signed by Alain Juppé. In it, he ordered the reduction of the rent significantly below the normal market rates for the apartment of his son Laurent. Its 189 m² apartment located in the same street, in the multi-million francs at the expense of taxpayers were realized.

Through the association of Paris taxpayers a lawsuit was filed, the procedure has been set by the prosecutor Bruno Cotte. 1998 checks whether Alain Juppe evaded the financing of the RPR control means and had accepted illegal political contributions. Public contracts were financed by the Paris town hall and other companies. His personal secretary in the RPR drew its content via a company of Segur - estate group, and additionally over the city of Paris. On 30 January 2004 he was sentenced by the Criminal Court of Nanterre to 18 months in prison on probation and ten years ineligibility in the matter of the fictitious jobs of Paris City Hall. Juppe immediately filed an appeal had suspensive effect. On 1 December 2004, the Appeals Court reduced the prison sentence to fourteen months of probation and one year of ineligibility. In the court's opinion attributed the appeal judges, it was regrettable that Juppé did not apply the legal rules on party funding, for which he himself had voted in Parliament on his own party. Juppé resigned as mayor of Bordeaux or on the following day from his last political post.