Jean-Pierre Chevènement
Jean -Pierre Chevènement ( born March 9, 1939 in Belfort ) is a French left - souveränistischer politicians. He was the first education and later defense minister under President François Mitterrand and interior minister under President Jacques Chirac.
Biography
Chevènement is the son of a teacher. The Chevènement family originates from Switzerland. The German name - Schwennemann - was franzi Siert in the 18th century to the current family name.
Chevènement took a degree in Political Science and attended from 1963 to 1965, the elite university École Nationale d'Administration in Strasbourg.
In 1998 he had to undergo a gall bladder operation, where there was so serious complications, that he lay for several days in a coma.
Political career
Since 1964 Chevènement was a member of the French Socialist Party ( SFIO ) and 1971 decisive role in the foundation as Parti Socialiste français (PS).
On May 22, 1981, he was appointed Minister for Research and Technology in the rank of Minister of State in the cabinet of Pierre Mauroy. On March 22, 1983, he resigned after he was recently elected mayor of Belfort. On July 19, 1984, he was the successor of Alain Savary as Minister of National Education under Laurent Fabius and held the office until 20 March 1986.
From 13 May 1988 to 29 January 1991, he was a French Defense Minister Michel Rocard government.
In 1993 he left the PS and formed instead of the Mouvement des citoyens founded in 1992, a political party whose leader he became. In June 1997 he was Interior Minister in the Cabinet Jospin, but resigned on August 29, 2000, following in the wake of a serious illness by Jean- Jack Queyranne he had already in 1998 must be represented. Daniel Vaillant moved according as his successor in the office of the Minister of the Interior, Queyranne in turn took over Vaillant's Office of the Minister for Relations with Parliament.
In the 2002 presidential election, he reached 5.3%, the sixth place. 2004 he speaks out against the European Constitution. Since 2008 he is a member of the French Senate.
In a newspaper article in early 2008 Chevènement advocates the creation of a new left-wing party:
" Especially with regard to France Chevènement is of the opinion that defeats the French left in the presidential elections of 1995, 2002 and 2007 were not random events, but a logical consequence of lost grip of left politics in terms of real life and work of the " little people " ( " couches populaires "). Only the " electric shock" the foundation of a great collection of party could make a majority again in France the left. The program of those party must - following on from the tradition of Jean Jaurès - internal social and international solidarity with each other and the party must give a voice to the sense of a fruitful discussion next to " realpolitik " and " radical utopian " currents. At the end of a both the challenges of our time nascent as well as the interests of the population is political project must stand. The political left is called the face of the global financial crisis to the neo-liberal oriented capitalism oppose their vision of a "new" New Deal monetary, social and environmental -friendly policies and regulations to make them the subject of international conferences. "
Quotes
- " A minister holds either the mouth or he resigns. "
- " The Interior Ministry, which is something like the cleaning lady a government. "