Jean-Paul Huchon
Jean -Paul Huchon ( born July 29, 1946 in Paris ) is a French politician (PS) and since 1998 President of the Regional Council of Ile de France.
Life
Training
Jean -Paul Huchon grew up in Paris and attends the lycée Rodin and the Institut d' études politiques then de Paris and the École nationale d'administration, which he finished in a vintage Claude Gueant with Alain Richard and Jean -Claude Trichet.
Political career
Huchon 1967 a member of the PSU that worked later in the PS. From 1971 to 1978 he worked in the Ministries of Finance and Labour and Social Affairs, before he became in 1977 deputy Bürgerermeister of Conflans -Sainte -Honorine and Michel Rocard, whom he succeeded in 1994 as mayor. In addition, Huchon From 1985 a year as director of the " Caisse Nationale" Crédit Agricole. He is in the privatization of the Bank of Edouard Balladur, with the words " I have never heard your name " entlassen.Als Rocard in 1981 and 1988 Prime Minister was, Huchon followed him as his Kabinettsdirketor and remained until 1991 in this function. It was followed by several years in which he worked in the private sector, especially in collaboration with François Pinault and as vice president of the company Progress Headhunter Associés.
The PS won in 1998, a relative majority in the Regional Council of Ile de France and Huchon was elected president of the Regional Council. His post as mayor of Conflans he gave up in 2001. In 2003 he was member of the scientific advisory board of the think tank À gauche sozialdemokraitschen, en Europe, who had founded Michel Rocard and Dominique Strauss -Kahn.
In the 2004 elections, Huchon is re-elected as Regional President. As of 2007, he found himself in the revision of land use planning for the Ile de France ( schéma directeur de la region Ile- de -France ) in opposition to Christian Blanc again, which for the government of Nicolas Sarkozy under the title Grand Paris ( Greater Paris ) working on another design for the development of the capital region ..
Huchon is attributed to the more pragmatic social- democratic wing of the party. In an interview with Le Figaro in 2008, he called the bhp on to break with the " Marxist doctrine."
In the regional elections of 2010, the PS won together with its coalition partners once again with the majority and its leading candidate was re-elected. After he had enjoyed in the past little public awareness and he had been accused of lacking charisma, he now gained notoriety and successfully presented itself as a quiet man of compensation.
Private
Huchon is married. He is known as a rock fan ( Led Zeppelin to Coldplay ).
Financial affair
In November 2004, has been known to go on an anonymous letter that the regional council had in 2002 and 2003 contracts with PR companies Image Publique, Sertis and LM festival closed, in which Dominique Le Texier, the woman Huchons, was employed. Huchon and his wife were due to illegal prize d' intérêts: convicted (about illegal Interessenskonfilkte ) to 6 months imprisonment suspended and 60,000 euro fine and loss of passive suffrage. On appeal, detention and were confirmed fine, but the loss of eligibility revoked.
Honors
- Knight of the Ordre national du Mérite
- Commander of the Mérite agricole