Alain Juppé

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Alain Juppé (2015)

Alain Juppé (pronunciation:  [ aˈlɛ̃ ʒyˈpe ] ; born August 15, 1945 in Mont-de-Marsan , Landes department ) is a French Gaullist politician ( RPR , UMP , Les Républicains ). He was Mayor of Bordeaux from 1995 to 2004 and from 2006 to March 7, 2019 , held several ministerial offices and was Prime Minister of France from May 18, 1995 to June 2, 1997 . Please click to listen!Play

Juppé ran for the candidacy of the Républicains in the presidential election in France 2017 ; in the party primaries, however, he was defeated by his rival François Fillon . He has been a member of the French constitutional court Conseil constitutionnel since March 12, 2019 .

school career

Alain Juppé is the son of Marie (1910-2004) and Robert Juppé, both supporters of the conservative Gaullists. His school days at the Victor Duruy high school in Mont-de-Marsan ( Landes ) were very successful. At the age of 17 he passed his Abitur. At the Lycée Louis-le-Grand in Paris , he attended the préparatoire class in languages ​​and humanities (Khâgne) . He is a graduate of three elite universities . The École normal supérieure (ENS), into which he was accepted in 1964, he graduated in 1967 with the Agrégation (license to teach for higher schools) in classical languages. He then graduated from the Institut d'études politiques de Paris (Sciences Po) in the field of public service (graduation 1968) and the École nationale d'administration (ENA; 1970–1972). He interrupted his studies 1969-1970 for military service .

Political career

According to Juppé, he voted for Alain Krivine (Ligue Communiste) in the 1969 presidential election . From 1972 to 1976 he was a finance inspector, a common entry point for successful ENA graduates.

Juppé (2nd from right) with his party colleagues Bernard Quesson, Claude-Gérard Marcus and Jacques Chirac , 1988

In 1976 he became a close associate of Prime Minister Jacques Chirac . In March 1978, he stood unsuccessfully in the election to the French National Assembly in Mont-de-Marsan as a candidate for the Rassemblement pour la République (RPR). He then worked on the side of the Paris Mayor Jacques Chirac. In 1979 he was elected to the Board of Directors of the RPR and appointed Assistant to the Financial Management and Economic Affairs of the City of Paris.

From March 20, 1986 to May 10, 1988, he held the post of Minister for the State Budget in the Chirac government. In 1989 he was elected to the European Parliament. From March 30, 1993 to May 18, 1995 he was Foreign Minister in the Balladur government . From 1994 to 1997 he was Chirac's successor as party chairman of the RPR.

Chirac named Juppé prime minister after winning the 1995 presidential election . In June 1995 he was also elected mayor of Bordeaux , succeeding Jacques Chaban-Delmas , who had held this post since 1947. After the electoral defeat of the bourgeois camp in the 1997 parliamentary elections , Juppé had to hand over the office of Prime Minister to Lionel Jospin . However, he was elected a member of the French National Assembly for the Gironde department . The supporters of the Chirac rival Édouard Balladur (including Nicolas Sarkozy ) and the "social Gaullists" also called on Juppé to resign from the party chairmanship, his successor being Philippe Séguin .

From 1998 it was checked whether Juppé had evaded tax revenues to finance the RPR and accepted illegal party donations. Public contracts were funded by the Paris City Hall and other companies. His personal secretary in the RPR received her salary from a company in the Segur real estate group and also from the city of Paris.

At the 2002 he was re-elected as a MP. In the same year Juppé became chairman of the newly founded Union pour un mouvement populaire (UMP), the successor party to the RPR.

On January 30, 2004, the Tribunal Correctionel (criminal court) of Nanterre sentenced Juppé to 18 months probation and ten years loss of the right to stand for election for a prize illégale d'intérêts (roughly equivalent to the acceptance of benefits ). In July 2004 he resigned as party chairman of the UMP, and Nicolas Sarkozy was elected to succeed him. At Juppé's appeal , the Cour d'appel in Versailles reduced the sentence on December 1, 2004 to fourteen months with probation and one year of ineligibility. In the grounds of the judgment, the appellate judges wrote that it was regrettable that Juppé had not also applied the legal regulations on party financing, for which he had voted in parliament, to his own party. This judgment became final. As a result, Juppé was forced to give up the post of mayor of Bordeaux, his last political office. He was succeeded by his deputy Hugues Martin . In October 2006 Juppé returned to the office of Mayor of Bordeaux.

After Nicolas Sarkozy's victory in the 2007 presidential election , Juppé was appointed Minister of State and Environment Minister in the Fillon I cabinet. After he was not re-elected to the National Assembly in the 2007 parliamentary election , he resigned from his ministerial office.

Juppé as Secretary of State with his American counterpart Hillary Clinton , 2011

On November 14, 2010 he was reappointed Minister of State and Minister of Defense and Veterans in the Fillon III Cabinet. On February 27, 2011, he was reappointed Foreign Minister as the successor to the resigned Michèle Alliot-Marie , while maintaining the position of Minister of State. Gérard Longuet succeeded him in the Ministry of Defense . In 2011, in an interview with France 2, he advocated the creation of a European federation . After Nicolas Sarkozy's defeat in the 2012 presidential election , Juppé also left the government.

Juppé was considered a possible candidate for the UMP party leadership after Sarkozy withdrew from politics. On August 27, 2012, however, he finally ruled out a candidacy after previously declaring that he would only be available as a consensus candidate. In the violent clashes between Jean-François Copé and François Fillon after the controversial re-election of the party chairmanship, Juppé was considered a possible mediator, but this offer failed. Juppé is considered one of the most influential people in the UMP. After Jean-François Copé resigned from the presidency of the UMP on June 15, 2014, Juppé temporarily took over leadership of the party together with Jean-Pierre Raffarin and François Fillon .

A poll in August 2015 declared him a favorite alongside Nicolas Sarkozy for nomination as a presidential candidate for the Républicains. Among the supporters of the center-right parties as a whole, he was in the lead in the poll for the primaries with 40 percent, among the supporters of the Républicains, however, with 30 percent, well behind Sarkozy (52 percent). In the internal party primaries in November 2016, he was traded as a favorite, but came in second in the runoff election with François Fillon , which he lost with 33.5 percent of the vote (against 66.5 percent for Fillon). When François Fillon came under fire for alleged earlier work for his wife and children, many conservatives called on Juppé more or less directly to run again. However, he refused to do so, also in view of Fillon's rigid adherence to the further candidacy. The Républicains would instead now endeavor to ensure maximum unity.

Political functions

government

Seats in parliament

Local mandates

  • Mayor of Bordeaux : 1995–2004 (loss of office due to disqualification) / since 2006
  • Vice-President of the Bordeaux Urbaine Community: Since 2006
  • City Councilor of Bordeaux: 1995–2004 (loss of office due to disqualification) / 2006–2019
  • Member of the Communauté Urbaine de Bordeaux: 1995–2004 / since 2006
  • President of the Communauté Urbaine de Bordeaux: 1995–2004 (loss of office due to deprivation of office)
  • Deputy Mayor of Paris : 1983–1995
  • Paris City Council: 1983–1995

Party functions

Web links

Commons : Alain Juppé  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information about him on the city website , accessed on January 13, 2016
  2. ↑ France's UMP: Ex-Prime Minister Juppé wants to become president. In: Spiegel Online , August 20, 2014; Alain Juppé: 2017, bientôt ... In: al1jup.com (personal website), August 20, 2014.
  3. ↑ www.alainjuppe2017.fr (its official election website)
  4. ↑ https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/franzoesische-konservative-101.html
  5. ↑ www.conseil-constitutionnel.fr (website of the Conseil Constitutionnel)
  6. ↑ diepresse.com
  7. ↑ Alain Juppé ne sera pas candidat à la présidence de l'UMP. Le Monde .fr, August 27, 2012, accessed on August 27, 2012 (French).
  8. ↑ UMP: Copé défend ses positions, Juppé jette l'éponge, Fillon “saisira la justice”. Le Monde .fr, September 25, 2012, accessed September 26, 2012 (French).
  9. ↑ Matthieu Deprieck: L'UMP est maintenant aux mains du trio Juppé Fillon Raffarin. L'Éxpress (online), September 10, 2012, accessed on June 28, 2014 (French).
  10. ↑ Dominique De Montvalon: SONDAGE JDD - Juppé et Valls en pôle positions. Le Journal du Dimanche , August 30, 2015, accessed September 4, 2015 (French).
  11. ^ Primary elections in France - Abfuhr für Sarkozy , NZZ of November 20, 2016
  12. ↑ https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/franzoesische-konservative-101.html
  13. ↑ Michaela Wiegel: What a mess. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, March 6, 2017, accessed on March 7, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Juppé, Alain
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French politician, member of the National Assembly, Foreign Minister, Prime Minister, MEP
DATE OF BIRTH August 15, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Mont-de-Marsan