Eric Woerth

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Éric Woerth (photograph from August 28, 2010)

Éric Woerth (born January 29, 1956 in Creil in the Oise department ) is a French politician ( LR ). From March 22nd to November 14th 2010 he was Minister of Labor in the government of François Fillon . He has been Mayor of Chantilly since 1995 .

Woerth attended HEC Paris and Sciences Po . From March 17, 1986 to March 22, 1992 he was a member of the Regional Council of Picardy , then until March 15, 1998 Vice-President of the same and then until July 15, 2002 again ordinary member. He has also been Mayor of Chantilly in the Oise department since June 19, 1995 , including his re-election on March 18, 2001.

On June 16, 2002 he was elected member of the National Assembly for the twelfth legislative period (2002-2007) in the fourth constituency of Oise . He is a member of the UMP , whose treasurer position he held until July 30, 2010. From March 30, 2004 to May 31, 2005, under the third government of Jean-Pierre Raffarin , he held the office of Secrétaire d'État à la Réforme de l'État (about: "State Secretary of State Reform").

After the government camp suffered significant losses in the French regional elections in March 2010 against the left-wing electoral alliances made up of socialists and Greens, Sarkozy reshaped his government. Woerth, Minister of Budget since 2007, received the Ministry of Labor from the outgoing Xavier Darcos as the key portfolio . As labor minister, he defended the controversial pension reform in parliament. Because of his involvement in the Bettencourt affair , he represented a political risk for Sarkozy and resigned from the government reshuffle on November 14, 2010.

He is the founder and first president of the Club de la boussole ("Compass Club"), an association of 38 reform-minded members of the UMP, as well as a member of the "Reformers", a movement within the party organized around Hervé Novelli . As the former CFO and Administrative Director of the RPR , which was absorbed into the UMP in 2002 - a position he has held since 1993 - and as parliamentary advisor to Alain Juppés at the Hôtel Matignon (the official residence of the French Prime Minister) from 1995, he is considered close to the former Prime Minister .

In the summer of 2010 Woerth hit the headlines when he and President Sarkozy were publicly accused of corruption in connection with the Bettencourt affair involving industrialist Liliane Bettencourt . He was acquitted of this allegation in May 2015.

On August 13, 2019, Woerth once again aroused media interest after posting a photo on Twitter with the title toujours sur les pointes avant that showed him climbing an almost vertical wall, roped with an ice ax and crampons. Other Twitter users pointed out inconsistencies in the picture, such as two people in the distance at the edge of the picture seemingly horizontal, as well as the fact that the zipper of Woerth's anorak was at right angles to the wall, and expressed the assumption that the spectacular picture taken in a much more horizontal position and then rotated. Woerth - known to be a hobby alpinist - and his friends countered that the photo was "100 percent real".

Éric Woerth has been a member of the Franco-German Parliamentary Assembly since 2019 .

See also: List of members of the National Assembly of the 15th electoral term (France) , List of members of the National Assembly of the 14th electoral term (France) , List of members of the National Assembly of the 13th electoral term (France) and List of members of the National Assembly of the 12th electoral term (France) . Parliamentary term (France)

Web links

Commons : Éric Woerth  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. France: Sarkozy draws consequences after election failure at focus.de, March 22, 2010. Accessed on March 23, 2010.
  2. ↑ Rudolf Balmer: Fillon's "Combat Government" for France. NZZ, November 16, 2010, accessed on November 20, 2010 .
  3. ↑ Sarkozy, Woerth, fraude fiscale: les secrets volés de l'affaire Bettencourt , mediapart.fr, June 16, 2010 (French).
  4. ^ Judgment in the Bettencourt affair , Süddeutsche.de, May 28, 2015.
  5. ↑ Malgré les moqueries, "l'alpiniste" Eric Woerth persiste et signe. Nouvelle Observateur, August 12, 2019, accessed August 13, 2019 (French).
  6. ↑ French politician Eric Woerth hits back at fake mountain photo jokes. BBC News, August 13, 2019, accessed August 13, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Woerth, Eric
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French politician (UMP), member of the National Assembly
DATE OF BIRTH January 29, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Creil