Noël Mamère

Noël Mamère (born 25 December 1948 in Libourne, Gironde ) is a French politician ecological orientation.

Biography

Son of Roger Mamère and Marthe Simon, both shoe dealer, he is married to his second wife Françoise Mamère and father of a child. From a family of radical right-wing Catholics he first attended a Jesuit school. The diplomas he has before a license in law from the University of Bordeaux and a Ph.D. in communications.

Professionally, he occupied first as an assistant at the University of Bordeaux from 1973 to 1977 and then worked as a journalist, first at the ORTF, then RMC and Quotidien de Paris. After that, he was editor and presenter for the regional office of the Midi the Second French public broadcaster, from 1982 to 1986, thereafter the Journaux du Week-end, from 1986 to 1987 and from 1986 to 1992 eventually Moderator and responsible for the consignment Résistances.

Political career

1989 began his political involvement by he took in Begles at the top of a list under the name Majorité Présidentielle as opposition candidate for the official candidate of the Socialist Party français. Only a year later he founded together with Brice Lalonde, the political movement Génération Écologie, whose vice chairman, he was in 1992. Two years later, it comes to a break but he relies on the party and founded a new independent movement Convergence Écologie - Solidarité, the Presidency will also entrusted to it.

In the same year he moved over the list of Bernard Tapie, Energie radicals, in the European Parliament. After the withdrawal of Jacques Delors from politics in 1998, he supported the candidacy of Prime Minister Lionel Jospin to the presidency.

Also in 1998, he joined with the totality of its motion the Green Party (Les Verts ). In November 2001, as initially Alain Lipietz is proposed as a candidate for the presidential election, he announced at first, not wanting to take on the role of the substitute candidates. As two days later, Alain Lipietz withdraws his application and also Dominique Voynet refused to meet again as a candidate, he revised his opinion.

Elective offices

• Member of the Municipal Council and Mayor: 1989 - 1995: mayor of Begles (Gironde )
• 1995 - 2001: mayor of Begles (Gironde )
• Since 2001: mayor of Begles (Gironde )

• Member of the Regional Council: 1992 - 1994: Member of Council of the Aquitaine region
• 1998: Member of Council of the Aquitaine region

• MP: 1988: Deputy Deputies for the Gironde department, ( Gilbert Mitterrand )
• 1997 - 2002: Member of Parliament for the Gironde department
• 2002 - 2007: Member of Parliament for the Gironde department
• Since 2007: Member of Parliament for the Gironde department

• MEP: 1994 - 1997: MEP

Candidacy for the presidency for the Greens in 2002 (5.25 % of the vote )

Medial appearance

• Demand for a judicial inquiry into the involvement and participation of President Jacques Chirac in illegal financing practices of his party, among other allegations, which were not the subject of legal investigations. As a consequence, symbolically expressed sanction to the National Assembly against him, although he belongs at this time of the ruling parliamentary majority, which is in opposition to the president.
• Support and participation in illegal actions devastation of fields where GM crops should be grown.
• On June 5, 2004, he takes over for the first time the marriage of a gay couple in the registry office of his church in Bordeaux. With this action he intends to take action against discrimination against same-sex partnerships. As a result of the celebrations and appeal, they find in the media, he is removed from office for a month from his position as mayor and declared the marriage null and void. This judgment is confirmed by the District Court of Bordeaux on 27 July, but the lawyers have appealed.

Judicial disputes

Due to a remark in the course of a television broadcast by France 2 in October 1999, it comes in 2000 to a complaint against him and the television station for defamation. 2001 comes to a conviction in the first instance, in 2002 the ruling is upheld by the Appeal Court and finally by the Constitutional Court.