Aurélie Filippetti

Aurélie Filippetti

Aurélie Filippetti (born June 17, 1973 in Villerupt , Département Meurthe-et-Moselle , Lorraine ) is a French politician of the Parti socialiste (PS) and writer. From May 2012 to August 2014 she was Minister of Culture in France.

education and profession

Aurélie Filippetti is a former student of the elite college for teachers École normal supérieure Lettres et sciences humaines in Saint-Cloud and daughter of the miner Angelo Filippetti (1938–1992), a member of the Communist Party of France and from 1983 to 1992 mayor of Audun-le-Tiche (Moselle) and General Council (conseiller général) of the Moselle department (1979–1983). Her ancestors are Italian immigrants.

In her debut novel The Last Days of the Working Class (2003) she tells how her grandfather, a member of the Resistance movement , was arrested by the Gestapo in the mine and taken to a concentration camp with his six brothers. She also dealt with the social issue of the closure of the mines in the Lorraine region.

Political career

As a representative of the French Green Party ( Les Verts ), she became a member of the council of the fifth arrondissement of Paris in 2001 . In the first ballot she received 13.75% of the vote. In the parliamentary elections in June 2002 , she received 6.6% of the votes cast in the second constituency of Paris.

When she was not reassigned to the list for the Longwy constituency, she left the party at the end of October 2006, declared “a quarter of Apparatschicks had come to power” and specified: “As a working class child, I notice that the internal blockade structures and the culture of small groups have prevented the Greens from expanding their electoral base through social and non-communitarian values. "

In November 2006 she supported the team of the PS presidential candidate Ségolène Royal as a consultant for the environment, culture, education and social issues. In March 2009 Aurélie Filippetti announced that she would run for the PS (List Grand Est) for the European elections in June 2009 . But she was not elected to the European Parliament.

MPs

In May 2007 she ran first for the seventh constituency in the Meurthe-et-Moselle (Longwy) department, but moved to the eighth constituency of the Moselle department (Rombas-Bouzonville) against the UMP candidate Alain Missoffe , after the original candidate of the socialists, Jean-Marie Aubron , had withdrawn his candidacy. She was finally elected on June 17, 2007 with 50.96% of the vote. In 2012 she was re-elected, this time for the first constituency of the Moselle department . Her mandate was suspended after she entered government in May 2012.

She is a founding member of the Convention pour la sixième République (Association for a New Constitution) alongside Arnaud Montebourg . From 2005 to 2012 she was chairwoman of the Marseille International Documentary Film Festival .

Minister

Filippetti supported François Hollande in the PS primaries for the 2012 French presidential election . After he was nominated as a presidential candidate, she became a member of his campaign team and was responsible for culture there.

After François Hollandes won the election, Filippetti was appointed Minister of Culture and Communication in the cabinet of Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault ( Cabinet Ayrault I and II ). Ayrault's successor Manuel Valls left her in this post in his Valls I cabinet . On August 25, 2014 Filipetti submitted her resignation in the wake of a government crisis; Valls formed the Valls II cabinet and appointed Fleur Pellerin as Filipetti's successor. Filippetti was part of the so-called Frondeurs , who publicly criticized the government policy of the socialist Prime Minister Valls.

After resigning from the ministerial office

After leaving the government on September 27, 2014, Filipetti regained her seat of parliament (Moselle department) in the National Assembly.

As a member of parliament, she supported the political positions of Arnaud Montebourg and was involved in his campaign in the primary elections for the socialist presidential candidacy for the 2017 presidential election . After his departure, she became one of the spokespersons for Benoît Hamon , the presidential candidate nominated by the PS. Hamon received 6.4% of the vote in the first round of voting; Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen made it into the runoff election. Filippetti received 11.8% of the votes cast in the first round of the 2017 parliamentary election and thus did not make it into the runoff election.

Others

Filippetti had a relationship with the French economist Thomas Piketty until April 2009 . From 2014 to the beginning of 2017, Filipetti and the left-wing PS politician Arnaud Montebourg (also left the Valls I cabinet in the wake of the government crisis mentioned above) were a couple; a daughter was born from the relationship in September 2015.

She is currently teaching at SciencesPo Paris' Franco-German campus in Nancy .

honors and awards

• 2012: Commandeur ( Komtur ) of the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres ex officio .

Publications

• 2003 - Les Derniers Jours de la Classe ouvrière , Stock, Paris, ISBN 2-253-10859-6 ?. Paperback edition 2005, ISBN 978-2-253-10859-7 ?.
  • The end of the working class: Family novel, S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2014, ISBN 978-3-10-002213-4 .
• 2006 - Un homme dans la poche , Stock, Paris, ISBN 978-2-7578-0122-2 .

Web links

Commons : Aurélie Filippetti  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Blog by Aurélie Filippetti, Ministry of Culture (French)
• Election results on June 17, 2007 in the Moselle constituency

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sur ce point, voir une communication au colloque "Annexion et nazification en Europe", Metz 7 and 8 November 2003: Pierre Schill, Antifascisme et résistance ouvrière organisés around the CGT et du Parti communiste en Moselle annexée (1940–1945), entre histoire et mémoire , p. 173 à 187 (actes publiés sous la direction de Sylvain Schirmann (Université de Strasbourg) et téléchargeables sur le site internet du Mémorial d'Alsace-Moselle à Schirmeck) online ( Memento des Originals from May 20, 2008 in the internet archive ) Info: Der Archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ Texts de son communiqué de presse ( Memento of the original of September 24, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ Reason and announcement on their blog ( Memento from July 11, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
4. ↑ Aurélie Filippetti, retour à la mine , Sylvia Zappi, Le Monde, 2 June 2007, Aurélie Filippetti, retour à la mine
5. ^ Site du Festival International du Film documentaire
6. ↑ lemonde.fr: Démission du gouvernement: et maintenant?
7. ↑ Filippetti éliminée
8. ↑ Linternaute.com: Aurélie Filippetti: Piketty, Saint-Sernin, Montebourg ... Love stories médiatiques July 30, 2015
9. ↑ Conference - Aurélie Filippetti à Sciences Po. Nancy: Aurélie Filippetti à Sciences Po. Accessed March 3, 2020 (FR-FR). 
10. ↑ publisher's website
11. ^ The shadow of a difference in FAZ from November 29, 2014, page L6