Georges Fillioud

Georges Fillioud (* July 7, 1929 in Lyon, † 15 September 2011 in Paris) was a French journalist and politician of the Parti Socialiste (PS).

Life

Fillioud studied post-school law and graduated with a diploma. He then was a journalist at the 1956 radio station Europe 1, where he worked until 1966. In 1964 he became a member of the founded by François Mitterrand Convention des institutions Républicaines (CIR ).

In 1967, he began his political career when he was a candidate of the Fédération de la gauche démocrate et Socialiste ( FDGS ) was first elected a deputy to the National Assembly and there initially until 1968 the constituency represented Drôme III. In addition, he was 1970-1982 Member of the General Council of the Drome region and was re-elected in March 1973 as a deputy in the National Assembly, in which he now until July 1981 again the constituency represented Drôme III. After the Congress of PS in Epinay 1971 he became propaganda officer of the party and as such was 1974 's spokesman Mitterrand at his unsuccessful run for the presidency. In 1977 he was also mayor of Romans- sur -Isere, and held this post until 1983.

After the electoral victory of the Socialist Party and the election of François Mitterrand as President of France Fillioud was appointed in May 1981 for the Communications Minister in the first cabinet of Prime Minister Pierre Mauroy. In March 1983 he was appointed Secretary to the Prime Minister with responsibility for communications technology in the course of formation of the third Cabinet Mauroy and holding office in the Cabinet of Mauroys successor Laurent Fabius to March 1986. At times, he was also a member of the Supervisory Board of ARTE France.

Between 1990 and his retirement in 1994 he was finally President of the Institut National Audiovisual ( INA), a public company that created the first digital archive of Europe. In addition, he was from 1993 to 1996 Member of the Board of Directors of news and press agency Agence France-Presse.

Fillioud, the actress Danièle Evenou married in 1996, was finally 1999-2002 President of the General Assembly of ARTE.

Publications

  • La Mort d' un chien, François Bourin, 1988 ISBN 2-87686-007-4
  • Homo politicus: the drôles et des pas tristes, 1996, ISBN 285018215X
  • Rendez -vous à Saint- Michel, L'Archipel, 2003 ISBN 978-2-84187-513-9
  • Mémoires des deux rives Entre médias et pouvoir, Editions du Moment, 2008 ISBN 978-2-35417-017-2
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