Christian de La Malène

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Christian Lunet de La Malène (born December 5, 1920 in Nîmes , Département Gard ; † September 26, 2007 ) was a French sociologist and politician of the Rassemblement du peuple français (RPF), the Union pour la Nouvelle République (UNR) and most recently the Rassemblement pour la République (RPR), which was a member of the National Assembly , representative of France and a member of the European Parliament and a member of the Senate . He was also temporarily State Secretary and Minister in various governments of the Fifth Republic .

Life

Studies, World War II and professional career

La Malène, son of General Jacques Lunet de La Malène and his wife Henriette Viviez de Chattelard, completed his school education at the Lycée de Grenoble and the traditional Lycée Saint-Louis in Paris . He then joined the armed forces at the beginning of World War II and was awarded the Croix de guerre 1939–1945 for his services . He then completed a law degree at the Sorbonne , the University of Paris , and earned a doctorate in law.

He had worked as a sociologist since 1947 and between 1952 and 1957 he was administrative secretary of the group of the Gaullist Rassemblement du peuple français (RPF) founded by Charles de Gaulle and of the Républicains sociaux (RS) in the Council of the Republic (Conseil de la République) , the upper house of the Parliament during the Fourth Republic . In 1957 he became a member of the parliamentary representation of the Union française , which represented the interests of the overseas territories and the colonies still existing at the time . He was a member of this assembly until it was dissolved when the Fifth Republic was founded on October 4, 1958.

Member of Parliament, Representative in the European Parliament and State Secretary

In the elections of November 30, 1958, La Malène was elected for the first time as a member of the National Assembly for the Union pour la Nouvelle République (UNR) in the constituency of Département Seine No. 16 and belonged to this in the first legislative period of the Fifth Republic until September 24, 1961 on. At the same time he became a member of the European Parliament on January 29, 1959 , which at the time was still delegated by the respective parliaments of the member states. He joined the Liberal and Democratic Group from January 29, 1959 to October 10, 1961 .

On August 24, 1961, La Malène took over his first government office, namely as State Secretary to the Prime Minister for Information (Secrétaire d'État auprès du Premier ministre, chargé de l'information) in the Debré cabinet , of which he was a member until April 14, 1962. In the elections of November 25, 1962, he was re-elected as a member of the National Assembly for the joint list of the UNR and Union Démocratique du Travail (UDT) and was a member of the National Assembly as a representative of the Paris department until September 25, 1977.

In addition to his membership in the National Assembly, La Malène was also sent back to the European Parliament on December 19, 1962 as a representative of the French Parliament, initially until July 19, 1979. He was there first again a member of the Liberal and Democratic Group and then between January 30, 1963 and January 20, 1965 non- attached MP before he joined the Group of the European Democratic Union on January 21, 1965 . In addition, he became a member of the Paris City Council for the first time in 1965, to which he belonged until 1989 after his re-elections in 1977 and 1983 as a representative of the 14th arrondissement , the Arrondissement de l'Observatoire . During this time he served on the Paris City Council between 1965 and 1977 as the chief rapporteur for the city budget.

Minister and local politician in Paris

After the Paris riots in May 1968 , as part of the extensive restructuring of the fourth Pompidou cabinet on May 31 , 1968 , La Malène became a minister responsible for scientific research and nuclear and space issues (Ministre chargé de la recherche scientifique et des questions atomiques et spatiales) and held this post until July 10, 1968. On July 2, 1973, he became a member of the European Progressive Democrats' Group, which was formed from the Group of the European Democratic Union, in the European Parliament and served between February 17, 1975 and July 16, 1979 as its chairman.

In 1977 La Malène declared that he would run for the office of mayor of Paris in the first direct election. He then withdrew his candidacy in favor of Jacques Chirac for the list of Union pour Paris provided by the Rassemblement pour la République (RPR) , who then in the second ballot on March 20, 1977 with 49.5 percent (54 seats in the city council) in front of Henri Fiszbin from the left-wing alliance Union de la gauche, consisting of PCF , PS and PRG , with 36.7 percent (40 seats) and Michel d'Ornano for the alliance Protection pour Paris, consisting of Républicains indépendants (RI) and Center des démocrates sociaux (CDS) 13.8 percent (15 seats) was elected mayor. From 1977 to 1983 he was first vice-mayor of Paris and councilor for finances and thus Chirac's first deputy.

Senator and elections to the European Parliament

In the elections of September 25, 1977 de La Malène was finally elected a member of the Senate for the RPR , to which he was after his re-elections on September 28, 1986 and September 24, 1995 for 27 years until September 30, 2004. On October 6, 1977 he became a member of the Senate Committee for Culture (Commission des affaires culturelles) , of which he was a member until 1981. He was then a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee (Commission des affaires étrangères) from 1981 to October 9, 1986 , from October 9, 1986 to April 3, 1987, a member of the Committee on Legal Affairs (Commission des lois) and then from April 3, 1987 to on September 30, 2004 again a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee, which was renamed the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defense and the Armed Forces (Commission des affaires étrangères, de la défense et des forces armées) in 2003.

La Malène was also directly elected as a member of the European Parliament for the first time in the European elections on June 10, 1979 and belonged to it after his re-elections in the European elections on June 17, 1984 and June 15, 1989 from July 17, 1979 to 18. July 1994. He then continued to be chairman of the group of European Progressive Democrats and, from July 24, 1984 to July 18, 1994, chairman of the resulting group of the European Democratic Movement . In addition, he acted as deputy chairman of the delegation in the EEC-Greece Joint Parliamentary Committee from July 8, 1980 to December 31, 1980, and as chairman of the delegation for relations with the Maghreb from April 10, 1986 to January 20, 1987. Countries. In the course of membership he was also a member of numerous other committees and most recently between 26 July 1989 and 18 July 1994 a member of the Committee on Transport and Tourism.

On June 10, 1994, La Malène, who was Vice-Mayor of Paris for special tasks from 1983 to 1989, also became a member of the Senate Parliamentary Delegation for the European Union , of which he was a member until October 14, 1998. He also became President of the French delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in 1998 and from 1999 to 2004 .

His son Barnabé de La Malène emerged from his marriage to Pauline Ginier-Gillet on July 7, 1978.

publication

  • Une espérance inassouvie… 30 ans d'Europe , 1989

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gouvernement Michel Debré
  2. ^ After the election of March 12, 1967, he became a member of the parliamentary group of the Union des Démocrates pour la Ve République (UDR) in the third legislative period and, after the election of June 30, 1968, of the Union pour la défense de la République (UDR) or the 1971 resulting from the Union des démocrates pour la République .
  3. ↑ Quatrième Georges Pompidou Governorate (remanié)
personal data
SURNAME La Malène, Christian de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES La Malène, Christian Lunet de (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French politician, member of the National Assembly and Senator
DATE OF BIRTH 5th December 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Nîmes , Gard department
DATE OF DEATH September 26, 2007
Place of death Paris