Annick Girardin

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Annick Girardin (2014)

Annick Girardin (born August 3, 1964 in Saint-Malo , Ille-et-Vilaine ) is a French politician of the social liberal party Mouvement radical . She was Minister for Public Service from 2016 to 2017, and then Minister for Overseas Territories until 2020. She has been Minister for the Sea since July 2020.

life and career

Annick Girardin grew up on the French archipelago of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon in the North Atlantic (off the coast of Newfoundland ), where her parents come from. Her father worked as a deep sea fisherman and later as a baker. Her great uncle Henri Claireaux represented Saint-Pierre and Miquelon for two decades in the French Senate (1947 to 1968) and was a member of the Christian Democratic MRP . At the age of 15 Girardin had a daughter. On the occasion of the 450th anniversary of Jacques Cartier's voyage of discovery to Canada, she took part in the first edition of the ocean-going sailing regatta Transat Québec Saint-Malo in 1984 . She is a trained socio-cultural animator, worked in the tourist office and in the town hall of the island's capital Saint-Pierre .

Girardin joined the left-wing liberal Parti radical de gauche (PRG) in 1999 and founded the regional branch Cap sur l'avenir in Saint-Pierre and Miquelon the following year. From 2000 to 2016 she was a member of the territorial council of this overseas territory. From 2007 she was also the MP for the constituency of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon in the French National Assembly . She gave up this mandate after she was appointed to the government of Manuel Valls on April 9, 2014 as State Secretary for Development and Francophonie. From February 2016 to May 2017 she was Minister for Public Administration in the Valls II and Cazeneuve cabinets .

After Emmanuel Macron was elected President, he appointed her Minister for Overseas Territories in the Philippe I cabinet on May 17, 2017 . Besides Jean-Yves Le Drian, she is the only person who belongs to the French government under both President François Hollande and Emmanuel Macron. At the end of 2017, the PRG was absorbed into the Mouvement radical - social libéral (MRSL). Even when most of the PRG members left in early 2019, Girardin stayed in the MRSL. After the cabinet reshuffle in July 2020, she moved to the head of the Ministry for the Sea, which was independent for the first time since 1991.

Web links

  • Annick, la pirate de l'espoir (2016) - Documentary by the journalists Sylvie Koffi and Shaman Dolpi about the life of Annick Girardin (52 minutes)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ François Clemenceau: Annick Girardin, la ministre qui venait du froid. In: Le Journal du Dimanche , 6 September 2015.
  2. ↑ Le Parisien: Annick Girardin quitte la Fonction publique pour les Outre-Mer (French)
  3. ↑ Européennes: les radicaux votent samedi sur leur soutien à LREM. In: Nouvel Observateur (online), March 8, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Girardin, Annick
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French politician
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd August 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint-Malo , Ille-et-Vilaine department