Alain Madelin

Alain Madelin ( born March 26, 1946 in Paris ) is a French right- liberal politician and minister.

Biography

The son of a skilled worker at Renault and a cleaning power he spent his childhood in Paris's Belleville. Shocked by the treaties of Evian in 1962 that impose the independence of Algeria, he began to strongly carry on with 16 years for the nationalist cause and fell into extreme right-wing circles.

Two years later he devoted himself to a study of law in Assas and was involved in the riots of the '68 movement, but resulted in the same year his studies further, and stood under the guidance of Valéry Giscard d' Estaing in the party of the Independent Republicans a, which tried hard to absorb a portion of the right-wing movement. He managed to complete his studies with a Licence, in 1971, he puts his oath as a lawyer. In this capacity, he was involved in various institutions and organizations of employers ( and retained by contact with acquaintances from the extreme right-wing circles ).

Within the party, he was inducted into the government team of Valéry Giscard d' Estaing, who was elected president in 1974. Alain Madelin himself was elected in 1978 as deputy of Ille -et -Vilaine and Vice Chairman of the Regional Council of Brittany.

When the Republicans 1986 elections won and the beginning of the first cohabitation looming, he was named by Jacques Chirac to the Minister for Industry, Postal and Telecommunications Administrations and tourism. After the elections to the National Assembly in 1993 in the government of Édouard Balladur, he received the department of business and economic development.

During the remaining part of the UDF party turned to the presidential elections of 1995 behind Édouard Balladur, Alain Madelin decided to support Jacques Chirac. After his election, he was appointed the Minister of Economy and Finance, but due to the liberal direction he took, he was forced to resign after three months and was replaced by Jean Arthuis. In 1997, when the Left was victorious in the elections, he took over the leadership of the Republican Party. In the same year there was a renaming of the party in Démocratie Libérale.

In March 1998, Alain Madelin finally refused to condemn after the regional elections the candidates who were supported by the National Front, and the Démocratie Libérale resigned from the party composite of the UDF. In 2002, he joined the presidential election as a candidate during the election campaign, merged his party with other liberal and conservative forces to the UMP.

He is currently working as a lawyer in Paris. Alive by his wife in divorce, he has three children.

Elective offices

Publications

  • Pour l' école liberer, l' enseignement à la carte, 1984 (For the liberation of the schools, teaching by default)
  • Cher compatriotes ... Programs pour un président, 1994 ( Dear fellow ... program for a president )
  • Quand les Autruches relèveront la tête, 1995 (If the bouquets will lift her head )
  • Le droit du plus faiblement, 1999 ( The right of the weakest )
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