François de Rugy

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François De Rugy

François de Rugy (born December 6, 1973 in Nantes , France) is a French politician . He is chairman of the Parti écologiste party he co-founded and has been a member of La République en Marche since 2017 . From May 2016 he was Vice President of the National Assembly and its President from June 2017 to September 2018. From September 4, 2018 to July 16, 2019, he was French Environment Minister .

Life

In 1991 François de Rugy first joined the ecological party Génération écologie before joining the French Greens in 1997 . In 2001 he was elected to the city council of his hometown Nantes, where he was one of the deputy mayor responsible for traffic. Since 2007 he has been a member of the French National Assembly for the first constituency of the Loire-Atlantique department , where he was Vice-President of the Green parliamentary group from 2012 to 2015. He left Europe Écologie-Les Verts in August 2015 as a proponent of his group's return to government and because of what he saw as the party's left-wing orientation . Together with Senator Jean-Vincent Placé he founded the ecological party Écologistes! (later renamed Parti écologiste ), of which he has been chairman ever since.

François de Rugy took part in the Parti socialiste's open area code for the 2017 presidential election to put ecology at the center of the left's debate. He received 3.82 percent of the vote. In February 2017, he announced that he would not campaign for the winner of the primary Benoît Hamon , but for the candidacy of Emmanuel Macron and his movement En Marche .

In the 2017 parliamentary elections in France , de Rugy entered the National Assembly for Macron's La République En Marche . After its constitution, he was elected President on June 27, 2017. He held this post until September 4, 2018, when he was appointed to succeed the resigned Environment Minister Nicolas Hulot .

In July 2019, Mediapart published several revelations, including a. on the use of public money for his apartment in Paris. In mid-2019, de Rugy hosted an evening event in the National Assembly at public expense, which was of a private nature and whose pictures (with expensive wines and lobsters) later circulated on the Internet. He submitted his resignation on July 16, 2019, and was succeeded by Élisabeth Borne .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ORF at / agencies red: F: Environment Minister defends himself against allegations of luxury. July 12, 2019, accessed July 15, 2019 .
  2. ^ France's environment minister resigns. Der Standard , July 16, 2019, accessed the same day.
  3. ↑ Successor appointed to minister who stumbled in the "Hummer affair". Aargauer Zeitung , July 17, 2019, accessed on the same day.
predecessor Office successor
Claude Bartolone President of the French National Assembly
June 27, 2017 - September 4, 2018 		Richard Ferrand
personal data
SURNAME Rugy, François de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French politician (Parti écologiste)
DATE OF BIRTH 6th December 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Nantes , France