Christiane Taubira

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Christiane Taubira, 2013

Christiane Taubira (born February 2, 1952 in Cayenne , French Guiana ) is a French politician of the Walwari party or the Parti radical de gauche . From May 16, 2012 to January 27, 2016, she was Minister of Justice in the Ayrault I , Ayrault II , Valls I and Valls II cabinets .

Life

Christiane Taubira was born the daughter of a nursing assistant who she and her four siblings raised alone. Your degrees are unclear or controversial. In their own official curriculum vitae ( Trombinoscope ) they only speak of the troisième cycle universitaire - today probably in accordance with a kind of "post-master" - in economics, without mentioning whether this cycle was completed or not. She then worked, among other things, as an economics teacher.

Political career

In 1993 Taubira was first elected to the French National Assembly for French Guiana and was re-elected in 1997, 2002 and 2007 respectively. She was always a candidate for the socialist- oriented party she founded, Walwari . From 1994 to 1999 she was a member of the European Parliament for the Parti radical de gauche .

In 1993, Taubira voted yes to the vote of confidence in Édouard Balladur's government . In the National Assembly from 1993 to 1997 she was a member of the République et liberté faction , which brought together MPs from small parties on the left and the right. From 1997 she belonged mostly as a so-called Apparentée to the socialist faction; From November 2001 to June 2002 she was a member of the Radical-citoyen-vert parliamentary group , which also included the members of the Parti radical de gauche.

In 2001, Christiane Taubira gave the loi Taubira its name . In that law, France recognized the slave trade and slavery as crimes against humanity. Taubira was rapporteur for the law in the National Assembly .

In 2002 Taubira ran for the Parti radical de gauche (PRG) in the presidential election in April 2002 and received around 660,000 votes (2.3 percent) in the first ballot. Your candidacy contributed to a fragmentation of the left camp, which ultimately led to the socialist candidate Lionel Jospin only coming in third and the runoff between the conservative Jacques Chirac and the right-wing extremist Jean-Marie Le Pen .

In 2007 Taubira was a member of the campaign team for the socialist presidential candidate Ségolène Royal . In 2011 she supported Arnaud Montebourg in the socialist primaries .

On June 16, 2012, Taubira was appointed Minister of Justice to Jean-Marc Ayrault's cabinet . She remained in office even after the new government was formed after the parliamentary elections in June 2012 . As Minister of Justice, Taubira was responsible for the legislation on Mariage pour tous , which opened marriage to homosexual couples.

The French President François Hollande and the Ayrault II government want to reform the French judicial system. In January 2014 Taubira presented designs to the public.

On January 27, 2016, Taubira resigned at the request of President Hollande. She had previously opposed government measures after the November 13, 2015 attacks in Paris on several occasions , in particular against the plan to withdraw French citizenship from people convicted of terrorism.

literature

  • Christiane Taubira: Mes météores: combats politiques au long cours. Mémoires . Flammarion, Paris 2012, ISBN 978-2-08-127895-0 .

Web links

Commons : Christiane Taubira  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ full text (French)
  2. ↑ Joachim Schild: Politics. In: Joachim Schild, Henrik Uterwedde: France. Politics, economy, society. 2nd edition, VS Verlag, Wiesbaden 2006, p. 54.
  3. ^ Never again in the penal colony in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung on February 17, 2013, page 10
  4. ↑ Thomas Hanke: France's Minister of Justice praises the art of seduction. Handelsblatt, February 12, 2013, accessed on May 30, 2013 .
  5. ↑ Le Monde : Christiane Taubira lance la réforme de la justice (January 12, 2014), Une grande majorité de Français considèrent qu'il faut réformer la justice (January 10, 2014), La fin de l'état de grâce de Christiane Taubira (December 22, 2012)
  6. ↑ France's Minister of Justice resigns due to anti-terror law. sueddeutsche.de, January 27, 2016, accessed January 30, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Taubira, Christiane
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French politician, member of the National Assembly, MEP
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Cayenne