Michèle Alliot-Marie

Michèle Jeanne Honorine Alliot -Marie ( born September 10, 1946 in Villeneuve -le- Roi, Seine- et- Oise, today the department of Val- de -Marne ) is a French politician and was dated 14 November 2010 until February 27, 2011 in the government of François Fillon Foreign Minister. She was the first woman to hold this office.

Political career

She holds a doctorate in law and a diploma in social anthropology. In 1986, she was elected to the French National Assembly and represents since the 6th constituency of the department of Pyrénées- Atlantiques.

In the government of Jacques Chirac, she was Minister of Education from 1986 to 1988. From 1989 to 1992 she was a Member of the European Parliament. In the government of Édouard Balladur ( 1993-1995 ), she led the Ministry of Youth and Sports.

From 1999 to 2002 she was president of the RPR party. From 2002 to 2007 she headed the Department of Defense, first in the government of Jean -Pierre Raffarin and from 2005 under his successor, Dominique de Villepin.

End of December 2006 announced Alliot- Marie, not wanting to compete for the UMP as a candidate for the 2007 presidential election. They first entered into an independent candidacy not, but renounced in favor of the later election winner Nicolas Sarkozy, in order not to diminish the chances of victory of the conservatives.

From 18 May 2007 until a cabinet reshuffle in June 2009 she took part in the Fillon government as Minister of the Interior, Overseas and Territorial, then as Minister of Justice. In November 2010 he changed to the Foreign Ministry.

In criticism Alliot- Marie came because of her January 11, 2011 during unrest in Tunisia to make 2010/2011 expressed in the National Assembly bid, the Tunisian government to get police assistance from France, "to regulate this type of security situation ." You should have spent several times holiday in Tunisia, where they stayed at the hotel the Tunisian businessman Aziz Miled. He had to pick up the French Foreign Minister with his private jet in France. Aziz Miled connections to the clan of former first lady reputed. Real estate transactions, which had completed their very elderly parents, from whom they had been accompanied on this journey with business partners from the closest environment of the Tunisian dictator, provided additional criticism. Alliot -Marie took this because of the withdrawal demands of the opposition position and said she had been deceived. On 27 February 2011, she resigned her ministerial office.