Françoise de Panafieu

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Françoise de Panafieu in December 2007

Françoise de Panafieu (born Missoffe ; born December 12, 1948 in Moyeuvre-Grande , Moselle department ) is a French politician ( RPR , UMP ). She was a member of the National Assembly from 1986 to 1995 and from 1997 to 2012, from 1983 to 2001 Deputy Mayor of Paris and from 2001 to 2008 District Mayor of the 17th arrondissement of Paris .

life and career

She was born the oldest of eight children. Her father François Missoffe was Minister of Sport under de Gaulle and her mother Hélène Missoffe was Senator and State Secretary under Valéry Giscard d'Estaing . Her uncle Jean François-Poncet was Foreign Minister from 1978 to 1981. Françoise Missoffe studied sociology at the University of Paris-Nanterre . In 1970 she married Guy de Panafieu , a financial inspector who later became a manager at Lyonnaise des eaux and Bull ; the couple has four children.

After three years at a personnel company, in 1973 she became a member of her father’s member of parliament, who at the time represented a constituency in the National Assembly as a member of the Gaullist UDR , which is largely located in the 17th arrondissement of Paris. As a candidate for the UDR successor party Rassemblement pour la République (RPR), de Panafieu was elected to the Paris City Council for the 17th arrondissement in 1979. She was re-elected five times in this capacity, serving on the council for 35 years. The then mayor of Paris, Jacques Chirac , whom she describes as her mentor, appointed de Panafieu as his alderman in 1980 and made her responsible for all-day schools. From 1983 to 1995 she was responsible for culture.

When her party colleague Alain Juppé became budget minister in March 1986, de Panafieu took up his seat in the National Assembly. In the parliamentary elections in 1988 and 1995, she was confirmed as a member. She gave up her MP when she was appointed Minister of Tourism in the Juppé I cabinet in May 1995 . However, she only held this office until 1995. After Jacques Chirac was elected President, Jean Tiberi took over the office of mayor of Paris, while de Panafieu remained under him as mayor, now responsible for parks and green spaces. From September 1996 to June 1997 she was the Permanent Representative of France to UNESCO . In the 1997 parliamentary elections, she was re-elected to the French National Assembly. In the same year she supported Philippe Seguin in the party power struggle against Alain Juppé for the RPR chairmanship.

Panafieu at a 2007 election rally

In the 2001 local elections, the RPR, which was divided after scandals and ran with two competing candidates, lost control of the Paris City Hall to the socialists for the first time in decades. In the meantime, Françoise de Panafieu was elected mayor of the 17th arrondissement, which is located in the northwest of the city and includes both relatively poor residential areas and trendy neighborhoods. She held this office for seven years until March 2008. She also kept her seat in the National Assembly.

In 2002 the RPR merged into the center-right rallying party Union pour un Mouvement Populaire (UMP), to which de Panafieu subsequently belonged. In the run-up to the parliamentary elections in 2002, she applied to succeed her party colleague Bernard Pons as a member of the 16th constituency of Paris; However, the UMP again put the already 75-year-old Pons on. Thereupon de Panafieu ran in the election as independent against Pons and won the constituency. She was re-elected in 2007, so she was a member of the National Assembly until 2012.

In September 2006 she took over the chairmanship of the UMP group in the Paris municipal council. In the 2008 local elections, she was her party's candidate for mayor's office. But she received only 27.9% of the vote, the number of UMP municipal councils fell to 61, while the socialists under Bertrand Delanoë gained a clear majority. Then de Panafieu belonged to the municipal council until 2014 as a simple member.

Web links

Commons : Françoise de Panafieu  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Françoise de Panafieu. In: Fils et filles de politiques. Internauts.
  2. ↑ a b c d Biography of Françoise de Panafieu. Internaute, February 6, 2019.
  3. ^ Karen Bird: The Effects of Gender Parity in Elections. The French Case. In: John Gaffney: The French Presidential and Legislative Elections of 2002. Routledge, London 2004.
personal data
SURNAME Panafieu, Françoise de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Missoffe, Françoise (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French politician (RPR, UMP), member of the National Assembly
DATE OF BIRTH December 12, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Moyeuvre-Grande , Moselle department , Lorraine