Charles Millon

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Charles Millon

Charles Millon (born November 12, 1945 in Belley , Département Ain ) is a former French diplomat and politician of the Union pour la démocratie française (UDF), who, among other things, was a member of the National Assembly , from 1988 to 1999 President of the Regional Council of the Rhône-Alpes region , Minister of Defense between 1995 and 1997 and Ambassador to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in Rome from 2003 to 2007 .

Life

Studies, Mayor and Member of Parliament

Millon completed his school education at the Lycée Lamartine in his native Belley and at Sainte-Marie Lyon . He then began studying law and economics at the University of Lyon , graduating with a License de sciences économiques and a Diplôme d'études supérieures de sciences économiques . During his studies, he joined the anti-communist Charles Péguy circle founded by the biology professor Michel Delsol , where he met his future wife, the future historian, philosopher and writer Chantal Delsol , daughter of the herpetologist and evolutionary biologist Michel Delsol. In 1970 he founded the law firm Delsol-Millon-Gariazzo in Lyon together with his brother-in-law Jean-Philippe Delsol and another partner , for which he worked as a legal and tax advisor.

Millon began his political career in local politics when he was elected mayor of Belley by the Divers gauche in 1977 to succeed Charles Vulliod . He held this office for 24 years. On March 19, 1978 Millon was elected as a candidate for the Union pour la démocratie française (UDF) for the first time a member of the National Assembly, to which he initially belonged as a representative of the Ain department until June 1, 1995. At the same time he was a member of the regional council of the Rhône-Alpes region between 1978 and 2003 and also a member of the general council of the Ain département from 1985 to 1988 .

In 1982 Millon applied for the party chairmanship of the Parti républicain , one of the components of the party alliance UDF, but was defeated by François Léotard , with whom he then cultivated a long-term rivalry. During the eighth legislative term , Millon was Vice-President of the National Assembly from April 4, 1986 to May 14, 1988 and was also a member of the Committee on Constitutional Law, Legislation and General Administration of the Republic (Commission des lois constitutionnelles, de la législation et de l 'administration générale de la République) .

Regional Council President, Group Chairman and Minister of Defense

He then succeeded his fellow party member Charles Béraudier as President of the Regional Council of the Rhône-Alpes region in 1988 and held this position for eleven years. In the National Assembly he was a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee (Commission des affaires étrangères) from June 23, 1986 to June 9, 1995, and from July 1988 to October 1989 also rapporteur for the budget. On June 23, 1989, Millon replaced Jean-Claude Gaudin as chairman of the UDF parliamentary group in the National Assembly and held this function until May 18, 1995, when Gilles de Robien succeeded him.

On June 18, 1995 Millon resigned his mandate in the National Assembly after he was appointed Minister of Defense (Ministre de la défense) in the first Juppé cabinet on May 18, 1995 . From November 7, 1995 to June 2, 1997, he also held the office of Minister of Defense in the second Juppé cabinet . After the Parti républicain was renamed in June 1997, Millon was a member of the Démocratie Libérale (DL), which initially remained part of the UDF party alliance. In the elections of June 1, 1997, Millon was re-elected a member of the National Assembly, this time he was a member until his resignation on April 17, 2001. In this eleventh legislative period he was again a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee between June 13, 1997 and September 29, 2000, and then from September 23, 2000 to March 17, 2001 a member of the Committee on National Defense and the Armed Forces (Commission de la défense nationale et des forces armées) .

In the regional elections in March 1998 Millons re-election as regional president of Rhône-Alpes was also made possible by the right-wing extremist Front National (FN): The bourgeois camp had only 60 of the 157 seats in the regional council (as many as the left bloc), the FN held the decisive ones Vote for the majority. This led to a dispute within the UDF and to its split. The majority of the UDF condemned Millons actions and excluded him from the alliance. He then founded his own small party called La Droite ("The Right"). In January 1999, the regional council voted Millon out again and replaced him with Anne-Marie Comparini , who continued to belong to the UDF. In October 1999, La Droite was renamed Droite Libérale-Chrétienne (DLC).

After retiring from Parliament Millon was 2001 member of the City Council of Lyon and also a member of the Council of the city of Lyon and was one of two bodies by 2008. In addition, from 2003 to 2007 he was ambassador to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in Rome .

Publications

  • L'extravagante histoire des nationalisations , Paris, Plon, 1984, ISBN 2-259-01160-8
  • Pour redresser la France, l'alternance-vérité , Paris, Albatros, 1986
  • La tentation du conservatisme , Paris, Éditions Belfond, 1995, ISBN 2-7144-3259-X
  • La paix civile , Paris, Odile Jacob, 1998, ISBN 2-7381-0659-5
  • Lettres d'un ami impertinent à Jacques Chirac , Paris, Jean-Claude Lattès, 2002, ISBN 2-7096-2389-7

Background literature

  • Christian Terras, Michel Dufourt: Charles Millon, le porte-glaive: Radioscopie d'un scandale , Villeurbanne, Golias, 1998, ISBN 2-911453-39-5

Web links

Commons : Charles Millon  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ David S. Bell: Parties and Democracy in France. Parties Under Presidentialism. Ashgate, 2000, entry François Léotard .
  2. ↑ Portrait: Charles Millon, 53 ans, ancien ministre, fondateur de la Droite, est président du conseil régional Rhône-Alpes grâce au FN. Le petit Charles. . In: Liberation of November 7, 1998
  3. ^ Premier Gouvernement Alain Juppé
  4. ↑ Second Governorate Alain Juppé
  5. ^ Charles Millon: "L'armée n'a pas pour vocation de remplacer l'école" . In: Le Figaro from January 19, 2015
  6. ↑ Joachim Widmann: The Front National as a gaping mushroom. In: Blätter für Deutsche und Internationale Politik , Volume 43, No. 5, pp. 540–543.
  7. ^ Gisela Müller-Brandeck-Bocquet, Patrick Moreau: France. A political geography. 2nd edition, Leske + Budrich, Opladen 2000, p. 114.
  8. ↑ France: Regions (rulers.org)
  9. ^ The Europa World Year Book 2003, p. 1649.
personal data
SURNAME Millon, Charles
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French politician
DATE OF BIRTH November 12, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Belley , Ain department