Noël Mamère

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Noël Mamère (2009)

Noël Mamère (born December 25, 1948 in Libourne , Gironde department ) is a French journalist and politician of ecological orientation. He was mayor of the city of Bègles (Gironde) from 1989 to 2017 , a member of the European Parliament from 1994 to 1997 and a member of the French National Assembly from 1997 to 2017 . Mamère was Les Verts' candidate in the 2002 presidential election .

Education, job, family

Noël Mamère was born to Roger Mamère and Marthe Simon, both shoe retailers. The family milieu was Catholic and politically right-wing and Noël first attended a Jesuit school. He studied at the law faculty of the University of Bordeaux ( Maîtrise 1972) and at the Institut d'études politiques de Bordeaux (diploma 1973). Parallel to his studies, he worked from 1969 to 1972 as a freelancer for the public broadcaster ORTF in Bordeaux. From 1973 to 1977 he was an assistant at the Journalism Institute at the University of Bordeaux. In 1974 he obtained a Diplôme d'études approfondies (DEA) in political science, and in 1976 he received his doctorate in communication science.

At the same time he was a correspondent for the daily newspaper Le Quotidien de Paris for the Aquitaine region from 1974–75 ; From 1975 to 1977 he worked for the regional broadcaster FR3 Bordeaux Aquitaine and for Radio Monte Carlo . From 1977 to 1982 he was editor and presenter of the environmental and consumer protection program C'est la vie on Antenne 2 . He then became the moderator and deputy editor-in-chief of the news program Antenne 2 Midi . From 1986 to 1992 he was editor and presenter of the program Résistance on Antenne 2.

Mamère is married to Françoise Pichon-Mamère, who is a lecturer at the University of Paris IV . The couple's son, Adrien Mamère, is a lawyer.

Political career

Mamère began his political engagement in the 1988 parliamentary elections when he ran in the 10th constituency of Gironde as a candidate for the socialist MP Gilbert Mitterrand (son of then President François Mitterrand ). The following year he ran in the local elections in Bègles - a neighboring municipality of Bordeaux - at the top of a list under the name Majorité Présidentielle as a candidate against the official candidate of the Parti socialiste . He was elected mayor of the city. He held this office for the next 28 years - he was re-elected four times. In 1990 he founded the political movement Génération Écologie together with Brice Lalonde , of which he became deputy chairman in 1992. Two years later it came to a break, he then left the party and founded a new independent movement Convergence Écologie et Solidarité (CES), whose chairmanship was also entrusted to him.

In the European elections in 1994 , he entered the European Parliament via the list of Bernard Tapie , Énergie Radicale . Until the end of 1996 he was a board member of the group of the European Radical Alliance (ARE), then he moved to the group of the Greens . In the EU Parliament he was chairman of the delegation in the EU-Malta Joint Parliamentary Committee, a member of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Protection and, from 1996–97, of the temporary committee of inquiry into BSE. After his group change to the Greens, he took a seat in the Committee on Culture, Youth, Education and the Media.

In the parliamentary elections in June 1997 , Mamère was elected to the French National Assembly, where he represented the 3rd constituency of the Gironde department during the following four legislative periods (until 2017). He resigned his mandate as a member of the European Parliament. Also in 1998 Mamère joined the green party Les Verts with the entirety of his CES movement .

In October 1999, Mamère described radiation protection expert Pierre Pellerin as a "sinister personality" on the talk show Tout le monde en parle on France 2 . He accused the long-time head of the government agency for protection against ionizing radiation (SCPRI) of spreading after the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster that the radioactive cloud had not crossed the French borders. Pellerin reported Mamère and the then director of France 2 for insulting. In October 2000 the Tribunal Correctionnel found Mamère guilty of “public violation of the honor of a civil servant” and sentenced him to a fine of 10,000 francs (approx. 1,525 euros). The appeals and revision bodies confirmed the judgment. Mamère lodged a complaint with the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), which in 2006 found a violation of Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights (freedom of expression). Mamère's statements are sarcastic, but still within acceptable exaggeration or provocation, which is why a conviction was not “necessary in a democratic society” to “protect the good reputation or the rights of others” (within the meaning of Article 10).

At the end of May 2000, in a parliamentary speech, Mamère accused the then President Jacques Chirac of electoral fraud . Chirac has covered illegal actions by his supporters since his election as mayor of Paris. The reason was that the electoral roll of the 3rd arrondissement of Paris listed people who did not live there. The President of the National Assembly Raymond Forni (PS) gave Mamère a call to order (rappel à l'ordre) . This sanction is very rarely issued in the French parliament. According to Forni, Mamère's statements were “unacceptable” and violated “any republican tradition” which prohibits attacking the head of state personally.

In the run-up to the 2002 presidential election , Mamère ran for the Greens' internal party primary. In the first ballot he was ahead with 42.8 percent, but in the runoff election he was defeated by 48.9 to 50.3 percent against Alain Lipietz . After his controversial proposal of an amnesty for Corsican nationalists, the Lipietz party withdrew. Mamère initially categorically ruled out as a substitute candidate. After Dominique Voynet also renounced the candidacy, Mamère was changed. The party council nominated him as a presidential candidate and the Verts base confirmed him with 80%. In the first round of the presidential election, Mamère came in seventh place with almost 1.5 million votes (5.25%). This was the best result of any presidential candidate for the Greens to date. Mamère's success contributed to the fragmentation of the left camp. As a result, the socialist candidate Lionel Jospin only came third and the runoff election took place between the conservative incumbent Jacques Chirac and the right-wing extremist Jean-Marie Le Pen .

Mamère in January 2006

As mayor of Bègles, Mamère celebrated the first marriage of a same-sex couple in France on May 5, 2004. The same-sex marriage was legal at that time not yet provided also Mamère was not locally jurisdiction because the two grooms did not live in Bègles, but a fictitious address had stated. The French Ministry of the Interior suspended the mayor for a month. The Tribunal de Grande Instance of Bordeaux subsequently declared the marriage null and void, this decision was also upheld by the higher instances up to the Court of Cassation .

In 2004 Mamère participated in the illegal uprooting of genetically modified maize plants in a field in the Haute-Garonne department . The Toulouse Court of Appeal sentenced him - along with seven other “ field liberators ” - to pay 63,000 euros in damages to the company Pioneer Génétique . In March 2006, because he refused to pay, his bank accounts were blocked.

The Les Verts party merged into Europe Écologie-Les Verts (EELV) in 2010 . Mamère left this party in September 2013, but remained a member of the Groupe écologiste in the National Assembly. In the parliamentary elections in June 2017, he did not run for re-election, he only ran as a candidate for the socialist candidate Naïma Charaï , who was eliminated in the first ballot. He also resigned from his mayor's office at the end of June 2017. In December 2017, Benoît Hamon appointed Mamère to the provisional governing body of his new Génération.s party . In June 2018 he announced his retirement from politics.

Web links

Commons : Noël Mamère  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry on Noël Mamère in the European Parliament 's database of representatives
  2. ↑ Dirk Vorhoof: European Court of Human Rights: Mamère v. France. In: Dirk Voorhoof, Tarlach McGonagle u. a .: Freedom of expression, media and journalists: case law of the European Court of Human Rights. IRIS Topics, European Audiovisual Observatory, Strasbourg 2015, pp. 188–189.
  3. ^ Paris: Noël Mamère persiste et signe. In: L'Obs , June 1, 2000.
  4. ↑ Les Verts ne se voient plus en “force d'appoint mais en moteur”. In: Le Monde , April 23, 2002, p. 9.
  5. ↑ Joachim Schild: Politics. In: Joachim Schild, Henrik Uterwedde: France. Politics, economy, society. 2nd edition, VS Verlag, Wiesbaden 2006, p. 54.
  6. ↑ Elisabeth Michel Gouillou, Adeline Raymond: Le cas du mariage homosexuel de Bègles - de l'intimidation à l'approbation. In: Christèle Fraïssé: L'homophobie et les expressions de l'ordre hétérosexiste. Presses universitaires de Rennes, Rennes 2011, pp. 101–132.
  7. ^ Claudia Courtois: OGM - les comptes bancaires de M. Mamère bloqués à la demande d'un semencier. In: Le Monde , April 1, 2006.
  8. ^ Sylvain Chazot: Vrai-faux départ: Noël Mamère sera finalement candidat en tant que député suppléant en 2017. In: le Lab , Europe 1, January 13, 2017.
  9. ^ Benjamin Pierret: Benoît Hamon dévoile le nouveau nom de son mouvement, Génération.s. RTL, December 2, 2017.
  10. ^ Noël Mamère renonce à se présenter aux élections européennes et "arrête la politique". France Info, June 25, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Mamère, Noël
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French politician, member of the National Assembly, MEP
DATE OF BIRTH December 25, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Libourne , Gironde department