François Baroin

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François Baroin, 2017

François Claude Pierre René Baroin (born June 21, 1965 in Paris ) is a French politician ( RPR , UMP , Les Républicains ) and former journalist. He has been Mayor of Troyes since 1995 . In addition, from March 2010 to May 2012 he was minister - first budget minister and then finance minister - under Prime Minister François Fillon . From 2014 to 2017 he was a member of the French Senate.

Origin, education, profession

Baroin's father Michel was a high official and Freemason (temporarily Grand Master of the Grand Orient de France ) and a close friend of Jacques Chirac . This brought François Baroin the news of his father's death in a plane crash in Cameroon in 1987. The then Prime Minister subsequently became a mentor for young Baroin, who had also lost his older sister in a car accident that same year. He studied at the Institut supérieur de gestion (Institute for Business Administration), which he graduated in 1989. This was followed by postgraduate studies at the University of Panthéon-Assas (Paris II), where he obtained a DESS in defense issues , another in information science and a DEA in geopolitics.

Baroin has been friends with Jean-Michel Blanquer since he was at school at the private Catholic College Stanislas , the two of them consider each other "almost brothers". Together with Blanquer and Richard Senghor (great-nephew of Senegalese President Léopold Senghor ), Baroin initiated a "Declaration for the Third Millennium" in 1987, which was to be an updated version of the 1789 Declaration of Human and Civil Rights .

From 1988 to 1992 Baroin worked as a journalist in the politics department of the station Europe 1 . He was admitted to the Paris Bar Association in 2001. Since 2016 he has been Associate Professor of Macroeconomics, Geopolitics and Crisis Management at the HEC Paris Business School . Since 2018 he has also worked as an External Senior Advisor for the London investment bank Barclays .

Political career

In 1989 he was elected a member of the municipal council of Nogent-sur-Seine for the RPR party , on April 2, 1993 a member of the National Assembly , where he represented the 3rd constituency of the Aube department (in which, among others, Nogent-sur-Seine and a Part of Troyes). As the successor to his party colleague Robert Galley , Baroin was elected Mayor of Troyes in 1995 .

In the same year Prime Minister Alain Juppé named him his press spokesman (State Secretary to the Prime Minister in the Juppé I cabinet ). After Juppé did not reappoint him in November 1995 for the Juppé II cabinet , he was appointed representative of President Jacques Chirac and held this post until he was again elected on June 1, 1997 .

In June 2002, Baroin moved again to the National Assembly for the Aube department after the parliamentary elections . In the meantime, he had joined the newly founded UMP party, within which he held the post of Deputy Secretary General, chaired by Alain Juppé. Since June 2, 2005, he was Brigitte Girardin's successor in Dominique de Villepin’s government, Minister for Overseas Territories ( Ministre de l'Outre-mer ), and on March 26, 2007, he switched to the post of resigned Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy , who was elected President in the presidential election on May 6, 2007 .

On March 22, 2010 he became Minister of Budget ( Ministre du Budget ) in the Fillon II cabinet ; there he followed Eric Woerth . Baroin was also budget minister in the Fillon III cabinet (which took office on November 13, 2010) and additionally "minister for the public service". On June 29, 2011, he succeeded Christine Lagarde (UMP) as Minister for Economic Affairs and Finance ( Ministre de l'Économie, des Finances et de l'Industrie ). After the presidential election on May 6, 2012 , in which incumbent Sarkozy lost to François Hollande (PS), the Fillon III cabinet resigned; this ended Baroin's time as minister.

Baroin has been chairman of the Association des maires de France (Association of Mayors of France) since 2014 . In October he was elected to the French Senate to represent the Aube department. The UMP was renamed Les Républicains in 2015. He supported François Fillon’s presidential candidacy in 2017 and was considered a possible prime minister if he won the election. After his failure in the election on April 23, Baroin offered Emmanuel Macron "to stand by as prime minister" in the event of his victory. However, this was rejected by Macron.

Since Fillon's failure, Baroin has been considered the Republicans' new "strong man". It stands for a clear demarcation from the Front National ("Anyone who allies with the FN is excluded from the party"). In view of the new rules against double mandates and the accumulation of offices, he renounced his mandate in the Senate on October 1, 2017 in order to remain Mayor of Troyes.

literature

Web links

Commons : François Baroin  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. ^ François de La Taille: "C'est lui qui est venu m'annoncer la mort de mon père": l'hommage très personnel de François Baroin à Jacques Chirac BFM TV, September 26, 2019.
  2. ^ Jean-Michel Blanquer, hyper-recteur. In: Le Monde , October 22, 2009.
  3. ↑ La Declaration de 1789 revue et corrigée par trois jeunes Parisiens. In: Le Monde , February 4, 1789.
  4. ↑ From May 18, 2007, the responsible overseas ministry ( Ministère de l'Outre-mer ) was merged with the Ministry of the Interior ( Ministère de l'Intérieur ) ( Ministère de l'Intérieur, de l'Outre-mer et des Collectivités Territoriales ) until 2012 ).
  5. ↑ cf. France: Sarkozy draws consequences at focus.de after an election failure, March 22, 2010
  6. ↑ www.amf.asso.fr: Activity report 2014-15
  7. ↑ FAZ.net March 7, 2017 / Michaela Wiegel : The "Trump moment" of the Republicans
  8. ↑ Le Figaro : Baroin prêt à être premier ministre de Macron . April 26, 2017. Retrieved April 29, 2017
  9. ↑ Le Figaro: Macron au Figaro: "Je prendrai en compte la colère des Français. » Interview, April 29, 2017
  10. ↑ FAZ.net / Michaela Wiegel : May 4, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Baroin, François
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Baroin, François Claude Pierre René (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French politician and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH June 21, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris