Michel Sapin
Michel Sapin ( born April 9, 1952 in Boulogne- Billancourt, Hauts -de -Seine département ) is a French politician of the Parti Socialiste (PS ), and since 2014 Minister of Finance in the cabinet Valls. Previously, he was since 2012 Minister for Labour, employment, vocational training and social dialogue in the cabinet of Prime Minister Jean -Marc Ayrault.
Life
Study and deputy
Sapin, the son of a business manager, graduated from two elite high schools: first began in 1974 to study literature at the École normale supérieure (ENS Paris) and in 1975 a member of the Parti Socialiste. Subsequently, he joined in 1978 another study at the École nationale d'administration (ENA ), where he attended along with François Hollande, Segolene Royal, Dominique de Villepin and Pierre -René Lemas the vintage Voltaire, he graduated in 1980. He then joined the staff at the Administrative Court of Paris.
His political career began Sapin 1981 when it was first elected in 1981 as the candidate of the SP to the deputies of the National Assembly and there at first the constituency Indre and 1986 for a short time the electoral district of Hauts -de -Seine represented. During this time he was secretary from 1983 to 1984 and then 1984-1985 Vice President of the National Assembly.
In 1988 he was again a deputy of the National Assembly and was part of this until 1991, again as a representative of the constituency of Hauts -de- Seine. At the beginning of this Parliament affiliation in 1988 he was temporarily Chairman of the Legal Committee. He also became involved in the regional and local policy and from 1989 to 1994 member of the municipal council of Nanterre.
Minister and Mayor
In May 1991, he took his first government post and was, until April 1992, first Assistant Minister in the Ministry of Justice in the government of Prime Minister Edith Cresson. In the subsequent government of Prime Minister Pierre Bérégovoy he was between April 1992 and March 1993 Minister of Economy and Finance. During this time there were two financial crises after the signing of the Treaty of Maastricht.
Sapin, to June 1995 Member of the Council was also from 1992 to 1994 Member of the Regional Council of Ile- de -France and in the connection of January 1994 for the monetary policy of the Banque de France, in 1995 mayor of Argenton -sur -Creuse and kept this office until 2001.
Sapin, who is also a member of the National Bureau of PS, was 1997-1998 National Secretary for Economic Affairs, and then from December 1998 to March 2000 National secretary of the PS for employment. In addition, he was president of the Association of Municipalities Communauté de communes du Pays d' Argenton -sur -Creuse and was also from March 1998 to March 2004 Member of the General Council of Indre and at the same time from April 1998 to April 2000 President of the Regional Council of the Centre region.
In March 2000, Sapin was appointed by Prime Minister Lionel Jospin as Minister for the Civil Service and State reforms in the Cabinet and was this until the end of Jospin's term of office in May 2002.
After he was 2001-2002 Vice Mayor, he was between 2002 and 2004 again mayor of Argenton -sur- Creuse. In May 2003, he was treasurer of the PS and as such was directly subordinated to the party leader François Hollande. Between 2004 and 2007 he was again deputy mayor and mayor since 2007, again from Argenton -sur- Creuse. In the meantime, he took over from 2nd April 2004 to August 2007 again the office of President of the Regional Council of the Centre region.
In addition, he was Sapin was again on 15 February 2007 as the successor of Ségolène Royal National Secretary for Economic and controlling the Parti Socialiste and supported in the following years their candidacy for the office of president in the presidential election of 2007. On 17 June 2007 members of the elected National Assembly and represented the constituency in the Indre I. He renounced his candidacy in the parliamentary elections of 2012.
In November 2011 he was appointed to the team of François Hollande for his candidacy in the 2012 presidential election. Sapin was appointed after the election of Hollande as President and the appointment of Jean -Marc Ayrault as prime minister of this on 17 May 2012 as Minister for Labour, employment, vocational training and social dialogue in his cabinet.