Édouard Balladur

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Édouard Balladur (1986)

Édouard Balladur (born May 2, 1929 in İzmir , Turkey ) is a French Gaullist politician ( RPR , UMP ). He was Prime Minister of the French Republic from March 29, 1993 to May 16, 1995.

Career

Balladur comes from an Armenian banker and merchant family from the Ottoman İzmir . In 1935 the Balladur family and their five children moved into an apartment on Boulevard Chave in Marseille . Despite certain restrictions compared to their situation in İzmir, the family lived in a middle-class family. At the age of 6, Balladur was accepted into an institution in the diocese of Jean-Baptiste-de-la-Salle, and then in 1942 at the Thiers grammar school. Balladur later remained very attached to Provence .

Balladur initially wanted to become a doctor, but then decided to study law . He attended two elite universities . First he studied at the Institut d'études politiques in Paris , with a focus on public services. In 1950 he received his diploma. For a time tuberculosis prevented him from continuing his studies, but after his recovery in 1955 he took it up again, this time at the ENA administration college in Strasbourg , born in 1957, graduating class “France-Afrique”. During his studies, he formed a small working group with Jacques Monod , Pierre Verbrugghe , a former police prefect of Paris, Jacques Calvet , former CEO of Peugeot , and Jean Dromer , former CEO of Louis Vuitton . After his first year, he completed the mandatory internship in the prefecture of the Charente department . His interim work still deals with the subject of the Barangé law and the construction activities for the school sector, but in the second year he devoted himself to the social sector.

Professional career

He then took over the management of Radio Télévision Française in 1964 to move to the cabinet of Georges Pompidou , whom he was at the time of the conclusion of the Grenelle Accords following the events of May 1968 as an advisor. When Pompidou won the presidential election in the same year , he first appointed Balladur as deputy, and in 1974 finally as Secretary of State . In 1967 he was admitted to the board of directors of ORTF , one year later to that of the national forestry office and became president of the company for the construction and use of the Mont Blanc tunnel .

In 1974, after Valéry Giscard d'Estaing was elected President, he returned to the Council of State. In 1977 he saw himself at the head of a subsidiary of the Compagnie Générale d'Électricité (CGE), an energy group that later belonged to Alcatel : Générale de service informatique (GSI), which is responsible for IT services . In 1980 he took over the management of another subsidiary of the group of companies: the European society for accumulators .

Political career

In March 1986, he ran for the RPR party and was elected MP from Paris. Jacques Chirac , the first Prime Minister of the first cohabitation , appointed him Minister of State in the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Finance , also responsible for privatizations. He left the post in May 1988 before being re-elected.

After the victory of the right-wing parties in 1993, he signed an agreement with Chirac and became prime minister, in return Chirac prepared for the 1995 presidential election . After his popularity rose in office, he decided to run alongside Chirac as a candidate for the presidential election, with the support of some of the leading members of the RPR, including Nicolas Sarkozy . However, he was eliminated in the first round and Chirac was elected president. He resigned from his post as prime minister and refocused on his parliamentary mandate. As a councilor of Paris, he was defeated by Philippe Séguin in the battle for mayor . Also in the XII. Legislative period (2002-2007) Balladur was a member of the National Assembly for the 12th constituency of Paris; this time as a member of the newly formed UMP party and head of the Committee on Foreign Affairs ( Commission des affaires étrangères ) after Jean-Louis Debré won the election for President of the National Assembly and lost Balladur.

Government functions

  • 1986–1988: Minister of State, Minister of Economy, Finance and Privatization
  • 1993–1995: Prime Minister

Political mandates

Awards

Works

  • The maypole (1979)
  • I believe in people more than in the state (1987)
  • Passion and Persistence (1989)
  • Twelve Letters to Quiet French People (1990)
  • Ways and Beliefs (1992)
  • Dictionary of Reform (1992)

literature

Web links

Commons : Édouard Balladur  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
personal data
SURNAME Balladur, Édouard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French politician, member of the National Assembly and Prime Minister
DATE OF BIRTH May 2, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH İzmir , Turkey