Éric Woerth

Éric Woerth (born 29 January 1956 in Creil in Oise ) is a French politician ( UMP). From 22 March to 14 November 2010 he was Minister of Labour in the government of François Fillon. Since 1995 he has been Mayor of Chantilly.

Woerth visited the HEC Paris and Sciences Po. From 17 March 1986 to 22 March 1992, he was a member of the Regional Council of Picardy, thereafter, by 15 March of the same 1998 Vice President and then to July 15, 2002 again a simple member. In addition, he has been from 19 June 1995 Mayor of Chantilly in Oise, including his re-election on 18 March 2001.

On 16 June 2002, he was elected for the twelfth legislature ( 2002-2007) in the fourth constituency of the Oise to deputies of the National Assembly. He is a member of the UMP, the treasurer post he held until 30 July 2010. From 30 March 2004 to 31 May 2005 under the Jean-Pierre Raffarin's third government, he assumed the office of Secrétaire d' État à la Réforme de l' État (about: " Secretary of State Reform " ) a.

After the government camp significant losses against the left coalitions of socialists and the Greens suffered in March 2010 by the French regional elections, Sarkozy formed his government. Woerth, budget minister since 2007, was given as a key department, the Department of Labor by the outgoing Labor Minister Xavier Darcos.Er defended as the controversial pension reform in Parliament. Because of his involvement in the Bettencourt affair he asked for Sarkozy is a political risk and difference in the change of government on 14 November 2010 as the government official from.

He is the founder and first president of the Club de la boussole ( " Compass Club" ), an association of 38 reformist deputies UMP, as well as a member of the " reformers ", organized by Hervé Novelli flow within the party. As a former Chief Financial Officer and Executive Director of the RPR, which merged in the UMP 2002 - a post he had held since 1993 - and as a parliamentary adviser Alain Juppé at the Hôtel Matignon ( official residence of the French prime minister) from 1995, he is standing next to a former Prime Minister. In summer 2010, Woerth made ​​headlines when he publicly the accusation of bribery was made in connection with the Bettencourt affair of the Industrial Liliane Bettencourt with President Sarkozy.

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