Franck Riester

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Franck Riester (2019)

Franck Riester (born January 3, 1974 in Paris ) is a French politician . He has been chairman of the Agir party since 2018 and assistant minister for foreign trade since July 2020 . From October 2018 to July 2020 he was France's Minister of Culture .

Life

Riester graduated from the Institut supérieur de gestion commercial school (ISG Paris) and obtained a master's degree in urban management from ESSEC . He worked as a management consultant and then took over from his father a group of Peugeot - car dealerships . Riester lives openly homosexual.

Riester began his political engagement in the youth organization of the neo-Gaulistic RPR . At the age of 21 he was elected to the municipal council of the small town of Coulommiers near Paris ( Seine-et-Marne department ) in 1995 . From 2001 he was assistant for finance and economic development under the mayor Guy Drut . As Drut's successor, Riester was elected to the French National Assembly in 2007 for the 5th constituency of Seine-et-Marne . At 33 he was the youngest member of the conservative UMP parliamentary group (successor to the RPR). A year later he replaced Drut as mayor of Coulommiers, he was elected with 54.8%. In the 2014 local elections, he was re-elected with 67% of the votes in the first ballot. In addition, he has been President of the Communauté de communes Pays de Coulommiers since 2013 .

Riester was the UMP rapporteur for the Hadopi law of 2009 to create an authority against copyright infringement on the Internet. In the 2012 presidential election campaign , he acted as a spokesman for Nicolas Sarkozy . He was one of two members of the UMP (alongside Benoist Apparu ) who voted to open marriage to same-sex couples in 2013 . Riester also dealt with public broadcasting and advocates a “French BBC”. Riester was Assistant Secretary General of the UMP from 2013 to 2015. The party was renamed Les Républicains in 2015 . In the run-up to the 2017 presidential election , Riester initially supported Bruno Le Maire in the party primaries and Alain Juppé in the runoff election , who was defeated by François Fillon . In view of the affair involving Fillon and his wife, Riester did not support this in the general election.

In the parliamentary elections in June 2017 , the La République en Marche (LREM) party of the new President Emmanuel Macron decided not to run its own candidate against Riester and he was re-elected with 68.9% of the votes in the second ballot. He then moved from the Républicains faction to the Les Constructifs faction , which described itself as part of the opposition, but collaborated selectively with the Macron government and his LREM. Riester headed this group together with Jean-Christophe Lagarde from the UDI until November 2018 . At the end of October 2017, he was expelled from the Les Républicains party due to his collaboration with the Macron camp. This is what happened to Prime Minister Édouard Philippe , Budget Minister Gérald Darmanin , State Secretary for the Environment Sébastien Lecornu and MP Thierry Solère .

On November 26, 2017, Riester founded the Agir party (la droite constructive) , together with other members of parliament and senators such as Fabienne Keller and Claude Malhuret , which, in contrast to the right-wing Les Républicains, works with the Macron / Philippe government. In October 2018, Riester was appointed Minister of Culture in the Philippe II cabinet to succeed Françoise Nyssen . After a government reshuffle , Riester took over the post of Minister for Foreign Trade and (Economic) Attractiveness in the Castex cabinet on July 6, 2020 . In this position he reports to the Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian .

Web links

Commons : Franck Riester  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Franck Riester fait ses classes at Palais Bourbon. In: Le Figaro , July 25, 2007.
  2. ↑ Luc Le Vaillant: Franck Riester: Sexus non politicus. In: Liberation , April 15, 2012.
  3. ^ Coming-out du député Franck Riester. In: Le Figaro , December 6, 2011, accessed November 1, 2017 (French)
  4. ↑ remaniement: Franck Riester, un expert de l'Audiovisuel nommé à la Culture. France Inter, October 16, 2018.
  5. ^ Camille Anger: Legislatives: Copé, "Macron compatibles", poussée du FN ... Les enjeux en Seine-et-Marne
  6. ↑ France's conservatives throw premier out of the party. ORF , October 31, 2017, accessed the following day.
  7. ↑ Olivier Faye: Franck Riester, un "constructif" au ministère de la culture. In: Le Monde , October 16, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Riester, Franck
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French politician (UMP, Agir), member of the National Assembly, Minister of Culture
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd January 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris