Philippe Séguin

Philippe Séguin (* April 21, 1943 in Tunis, † January 7, 2010 in Paris) was a French politician. From 21 July 2004 to his death he was president of the Cour des comptes.

Life

Seguins father fell in 1944 as a volunteer in Charles de Gaulle's army ( Forces françaises libres ).

At the age of six and a half years in Tunis, he took on November 11, 1949 in opposition to the military orders that had been bestowed on his five years previously fallen in the liberation of France father posthumously. Séguin became the ardent Gaullists and swore at every opportunity with bitter rhetoric great figures of national history like Joan of Arc, Napoleon and Charles de Gaulle.

Séguin attended the Lycée Carnot in Tunis, the Lycée Alphonse Daudet in Nîmes and the Lycée in Draguignan. He studied at the Ecole Normale d' instituteurs in Var and the University of Aix -en- Provence. He graduated from the École nationale d'administration as a member of the promotion, " Robespierre " ( January 1968-May 1970 ).

He joined the party in UDR ( Union pour la défense de la République, RPR Rassemblement pour la République later ). During his political career, he was from 1983 to 1997 Mayor of Epinal. Under Jacques Chirac, he was from 1986 to 1988 Minister of Social Affairs and Employment ( Ministre des Affaires sociales et de l' Emploi ) and 1993-1997 President of the French National Assembly.

In February 1994 ( just over a year before the presidential election, in which François Mitterrand took not again) wrote Der Spiegel:

" Philippe Seguin was the spokesman of the French opponents of the Maastricht Treaty, which narrowly lost at the European referendum on 20 September 1992, 48.95 per cent. The campaign, which culminated in a televised debate with President Francois Mitterrand, made the former social affairs minister of a national figure. One year after the referendum known in polls 54 percent of the French on the Seguin - line against Maastricht. Seguin ... ... represents a left open Gaullismus. His protectionist tendencies have the Le Monde as " le colosse " characterized Mayor of Epinal entered the accusation of nationalism and populism. After the electoral victory of the right in March 1993, the popular, self-confident nonconformist rather than a ministry then ordered the Office of the President of Parliament. From this politically neutral base made could Seguin, 50, compromise right-wing candidate for the presidential elections of 1995 are -. Appropriate, the top contender Jacques Chirac and Edouard Balladur block each other "

From 1997 to 1999 he was Chairman of the Rassemblement pour Séguin party la République (RPR ). In the local elections in March 2001 he was a candidate for the office of mayor of Paris and was not elected.

In 2001 he withdrew from active politics due to disagreements with his party.

In 2004, he became President of the Cour des Comptes ( Court of France). Séguin was appointed on the proposal of Nicolas Sarkozy by the then President Jacques Chirac. In 2007, Sarkozy offered him after his election as president in, cabinet minister Fillon II, Prime Minister François Fillon to become. Séguin refused to do so, preferring to remain President of the Cour des Comptes.

On the night of 6 to January 7, 2010 Séguin died of a heart attack. In the media he was considered an important representative of a Eurosceptic minority within his party.

His successor, then-President Nicolas Sarkozy appointed the politicians Didier Migaud (* 1952).

Works

• C'est quoi la politique? Paris 1999, ISBN 2-226-11019-4.
• Why Europe France wants. 1996, ISBN 3-421-05062-7.
• Discours encore et toujours républicains: de l' exception française. Paris 1994, ISBN 2-207-24304-4.
• Itinéraire dans la France d' en bas, et d' ailleurs d'en haut. Éditions du Seuil, Paris.
• Un premier président dans la République: Discourse 2004-2009. Foreword by Didier Magaud. Publishers ' La Documentation Française ', Paris, 2011, ISBN 978-2-11-008477-4.