Patrick Devedjian
Patrick Devedjian ( born August 26, 1944 in Fontainebleau ) is a French Gaullist politician and lawyer.
Origin
He is the son of Armenian parents who lived in Turkey. One of his grandfathers was deported during the First World War, his father from Istanbul's Ortaköy district was forced to flee to France as an engineer.
Career
After high school studied Patrick Devedjian law and political science and was a member of a right-wing group called the Occident to counteract the "surrender of Christianity in Europe before Islam ." In the Algerian War, he looked like in the genocide of the Ottoman Empire at the Armenians, whom he knew from the stories of his father, such a confrontation between Christianity and Islam.
1970 Devedjian is a lawyer, he leads the philosophical- political magazine Contrepoint. He collaborates with the liberal thinker Raymond Aron and changes in its political settings.
In 1971 he enters the Gaullist party. Chirac began in 1976 working with Devedjian. At the same time shows the sympathy for the terrorist organization Asala Armenian, whose lawyer in France he was. Asala wanted to draw attention to attacks on the then largely disappeared from the memory of the world on the Armenian genocide.
1983 Devedjian mayor in the Parisian suburb of Antony. He has held continuously over four terms of office The Office. In 2002, he gives it up to be Secretary of State in the French Ministry of the Interior.
Political career
Devedjian works very successfully as a legal advisor to the Prime Minister and party leader Chirac, but supports 1995 election campaign the internal party rival of Chirac, Édouard Balladur.
Since the beginning of the political rise of Nicolas Sarkozy in the 1990s Devedjian was regarded as the political and faithful companion, a relationship which was, however, conflict- burdened since Sarkozy's election as President in 2007 by the non-inclusion Devedjians in Sarkozy's first cabinet. After further conflict with Sarkozy's son Jean, it came to the year 2010 falling out with Nicolas Sarkozy.
From May 2002 to March 2004 Devedjian Secretary of State for Local Freedoms ( ministre Delegue aux libertés locales ), and thus the then Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy was assumed. As Nicolas Sarkozy took over the post of Minister of State (and therefore economic, financial and industry minister), he followed him, and was Secretary of State for Industry. This post he held from April 2004 to May 2005, when he was no longer taken into account in the formation of the government de Villepin.
In the 2007 presidential election, he supported Nicolas Sarkozy, whom he succeeded after his election to the presidency as President of the General Council of Hauts -de- Seine. In September 2007 he became Secretary General and thus de facto Chairman of the UMP.
On 5 December 2008 Devedjian was appointed Associate Minister for the implementation of the plan to boost the economy ( ministre chargé de la mise en œuvre du plan de relance ) appointed in the Cabinet Fillon II. In this office, which directly subordinate to the Prime Minister, he was responsible for the plan to revitalize the French economy after the financial crisis. In the formation of the Cabinet Fillon III in November 2010, the Ministry was dissolved. Devedjian then took a seat in parliament again, he could defend short of the 2012 election. The election result was annulled by the Conseil constitutionnel in October 2012 ( on a technicality in the nomination of Deputy Devedjians to choose from - this was not entitled to run for office because he already another office held ). In the thus made necessary by-election in December 2012 Devedjian won the mandate again, this time with another deputy.
EU membership of Turkey, he refuses, mainly because the Turkish government denies the genocide of the Armenians. He believes that Turkey must find before the accession to the European Union as an honest and correct handling of their own history. According Devedjian Turkey's accession entails the risk that in the country other genocides could happen.
Swell
- Blog of Patrick Devedjian
- Huberta von Voss: Portrait of a hope - The Armenians. Verlag Hans Schiler, 2005