Georgina Dufoix

Georgina Dufoix (1990)

Georgina Dufoix (birth name: Georgina Nègre ; born February 16, 1942 in Paris ) is a French politician of the Parti socialiste (PS), who was a member of the National Assembly (Assemblée nationale) , minister and state secretary. She was also President of the French Red Cross (Croix-Rouge française) between 1989 and 1992 and in 2013 publicly criticized the proposed law on same-sex marriage .

Life

State Secretary and Minister

Georgina Nègre was the daughter of the workshop owner Alain Nègre, who was also a member of the Nîmes City Council for the Section française de l'Internationale ouvrière (SFIO) , and Antoinette Pallier. She studied economics at the University of Paris , graduating with a Diplôme d'études supérieures spécialisées (DESS), and married the engineer Antoine Dufoix on September 20, 1963. After her father died in an accident in 1967, she took over the garage and was later also head of the branches of the rental company Avis in Nîmes, Arles and Alès . She began her political career for the Parti socialiste (PS) in local politics and was a member of the Nîmes city council between 1977 and 1989.

In the cabinets Mauroy Georgina Dufoix served between 22 May 1981 to 17 July 1984 as State Secretary for Family (Secrétaire d'Etat chargée de la Famille) . In the Fabius cabinet , she was Minister for Social Affairs and National Solidarity (Ministre des Affaires sociales et de la Solidarité nationale) from July 20, 1984 to March 21, 1986 . In addition, she also acted as government spokeswoman (Porte-parole du gouvernement) between December 7, 1984 and March 20, 1986 . During her tenure as Minister for Social Affairs, there was a scandal over HIV-contaminated blood products . Between 1984 and 1985, the Center National de Transfusion Sanguine knowingly administered HIV-contaminated blood products to haemophiles, as the doctor and journalist Anne-Marie Casteret wrote on April 25, 1991 in L'Événement du jeudi . A total of around 4,000 patients were infected with the HI virus through blood products contaminated with HIV. The Casteret article initiated the investigation of the French blood scandal.

Member of the National Assembly and President of the Red Cross

After leaving the government, she was elected for the first time in the parliamentary elections on March 16, 1986 for the PS as a member of the National Assembly (Assemblée nationale) and represented the Gard department from April 2, 1986 to May 14, 1988 . She resigned her mandate after taking up the post of Minister Associate for Family, Women's Rights, Solidarity and Returnees (Ministre délégué chargé de la Famille, des Droits de la femme, de la Solidarité et des Rapatriés on May 11, 1988 in the first Rocard cabinet ) took over. However, she only held this office for six weeks until June 23, 1988.

Shortly before her resignation from the government, Georgina Dufoix was re-elected to the PS as a member of the National Assembly on June 12, 1988, where she again represented the Gard department until April 1, 1993. As the successor to Louis Dauge , she became President of the French Red Cross (Croix-Rouge française) in 1989 . She resigned from this office on February 3, 1992 because of the so-called "Habache Affair". At the time, she was an advisor to President François Mitterrand and gave permission for the functionary of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and General Secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), George Habasch , to stay in France, although against the organization he headed Investigations into the creation of weapons depots at Fontainebleau in 1986 were ongoing. She was then also dismissed as a consultant and project manager for the Elysée Palace, the seat of the President.

Proceedings for contaminated blood products and opponents of same-sex marriage

In 1999, the former Prime Minister Laurent Fabius , the former Minister of Social Affairs Georgina Dufoix and her former State Secretary Edmond Hervé were finally tried in court for the scandal over HIV-contaminated blood products . The Court of Justice of the Republic ( Cour de justice de la République ) found Hervé guilty; Fabius and Dufoix were acquitted.

In 2013, Georgina Dufoix, who converted to evangelicalism in the early 1990s, spoke out publicly against the bill for same-sex marriage presented by Ayrault 's second cabinet . She said: “The status of mother and father affect the depths of our being. It's not just a legal status. These are deep and delicate terms that structure us individually, in relation to others, both between the father and mother himself and in relation to children and society as a whole. "

Web links

• Entry on the homepage of the National Assembly

Individual evidence

1. ^ Fabius cabinet
2. ↑ Anne-Marie Casteret revele l'affaire du sang contaminé ( Memento of the original on 12 December 2008 at the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link is automatically inserted and not yet tested. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . 
3. ^ Gerard Naville: France's HIV-infected blood trial set to conclude this week. Former prime minister unlikely to be found guilty. . In: World Socialist Web Site, March 3, 1999
4. ↑ Jochen Hehn: "Put a medal on him . " In: Welt online of March 10, 1999.
5. ↑ Georgina Dufoix opposée au mariage gay . In: Le Figaro of January 5, 2013
6. ^ Georgina Dufoix, contre le mariage pour tous . In: La Vie of January 4, 2013