Dominique Bussereau

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Dominique Bussereau (2009)

Dominique Bussereau (born July 13, 1952 in Tours ) is a French politician ( UDF , DL , UMP , non-party). Since 2008 he has been president of the department council of Charente-Maritime . From 2004 to 2007 he was French Minister of Agriculture .

education and profession

Bussereau completed his studies at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris (Sciences Po) with a focus on public service.

He began his professional career in administration from 1976 to 1978 as a representative in the Ministry of the Interior. He then worked from 1978 to 1979 as a consultant on technical issues in the Ministry of Youth, from 1979 to 1982 as Secretary General of the Office Québécois pour la Jeunesse (Quebec Representative Office for Youth Issues). From 1982 to 1983 he was attaché to the commercial management of the national railway company SNCF .

He then left the public sector and was Head of Foreign Relations at the private business school École supérieure de commerce de Paris in Paris (ESCP) from 1984 to 1986 . He then worked as a management consultant until 1993. In 2011 he returned to Sciences Po, now as a lecturer.

Political party

He began his political engagement in the youth organization of the conservative-liberal party Républicains indépendants , which was President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing from 1974 to 1981 . Busserau was a member of the national board of Jeunes républicains indépendants from 1973–1974 . The youth organization was renamed Génération sociale et libérale in 1974 and Bussereau served as its chairman until 1977. In the same year the mother party renamed itself Parti républicain (PR) and Bussereau became secretary of the bureau politique (party executive) of the PR. This was part of the civil party alliance Union pour la démocratie française (UDF) from 1978 . He held the board position in PR until 1986.

On the occasion of the presidential election in 1995 , the PR split, Bussereau switched to the Parti populaire pour la démocratie française (PPDF) led by Hervé de Charette , in which he acted as national secretary and coordinator of the PPDF MPs in the National Assembly. In 1997 he joined the PR successor party Démocratie Libérale (DL), of which he was assistant general secretary from 1998 to 2000. The DL left the UDF in 1998 and joined Jacques Chirac's center-right collecting party Union pour un mouvement populaire (UMP) in 2002 . At the beginning of 2018, he resigned from their successor organization Les Républicains because he found the course of the newly elected chairman Laurent Wauquiez to be too right-wing. Since then he has been supporting the Libres group as a special advisor . by Valérie Pécresse .

Local and regional policy

In 1983, Bussereau became the deputy mayor of the small town of Royan on the Atlantic coast in the Charente-Maritime department. Two years later he moved to the General Council of the Département for the first time . In 1989 he retired from the Royan parish council to become mayor of the small parish of Saint-Georges-de-Didonne . He held this office until 2002. He was elected three times to the Regional Council of Poitou-Charentes , but always renounced the mandate shortly after the election. Since May 2015 Bussereau has been chairman of the Assemblée des départements de France (ADF), the leading association of French departments.

Since 2007 he has been an honorary citizen of Gaienhofen , the German partner municipality of Saint-Georges-de-Didonne.

National politics

For his home department Charente-Maritime, he moved in 1986 as a member of the National Assembly . He was a member of parliament until 1988 and again from 1993 to 2002.

After the re-election of President Jacques Chirac , he was appointed State Secretary for Transport in the Raffarin I cabinet (in the Infrastructure Ministry under Gilles de Robien ) in May 2002 , and just one month later he was also given responsibility for marine affairs in the Raffarin II cabinet . In the Raffarin III cabinet , Bussereau was State Secretary for the Budget from March to November 2004 under Economics and Finance Minister Nicolas Sarkozy . He was then Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries until May 2007.

After Sarkozy was elected President, Bussereau was again State Secretary for Transport in Cabinets Fillon I and II from May 2007 to November 2010 (assigned to Environment and Development Ministers Alain Juppé and Jean-Louis Borloo , respectively ). After leaving the government, he was re-elected member of the 4th constituency of Charente-Maritime in the National Assembly in December 2010. In 2012 he was re-elected, and in 2017 he did not stand for another mandate.

Web links

Commons : Dominique Bussereau  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Le Président. Retrieved May 4, 2018 (French).
  2. ↑ Dominique Bussereau se met en congé de LR et étrille le parti. BFMTV, January 13, 2018.
  3. ^ Propos de Wauquiez: Bussereau quitte "définitivement" Les Républicains. BFMTV, February 20, 2018.
  4. ^ Dominique Bussereau rejoint Libres !, le mouvement de Valérie Pécresse. France 3 Nouvelle-Aquitaine, February 17, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Bussereau, Dominique
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French politician
DATE OF BIRTH July 13, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Tours