Hervé de Charette

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Hervé Marie Joseph de Charette de la Contrie , known as Hervé de Charette (born July 30, 1938 in Paris ) is a French politician . He was Minister for Housing from 1993 to 1995, then Minister for Foreign Affairs of France until 1997.

Life

Origin, education and administrative career

Charette was born into an aristocratic family as the son of Hélion Marie Joseph Christian, Baron de Charette de La Contrie (1906-1983) and his first wife Jeanne Girauld de Nolhac (1908-1954) . He is the descendant of the royal military leader François Athanase de Charette de la Contrie , one of the royalist officers and leader of the peasant uprising in the Vendée , who was captured and shot by the supporters of the First Republic in 1796 .

Charette grew up in the Maine-et-Loire department . He attended the École des hautes études commerciales in Paris and the Institut d'études politiques de Paris (Sciences Po). From 1964 to 1966 he studied administration and law at the Paris elite university École nationale d'administration (ENA), where he was part of the “ Montesquieu ” class.

In June 1966, Charette entered the civil service as an official of the Conseil d'État . From 1969 to 1973 he was Deputy Secretary General of the Conseil d'État. From 1973 he was a lecturer at the Conseil d'État. In 1973 the then Minister of Social Affairs, Georges Gorse , appointed him his personal advisor. He then worked in a leading position for Immigration State Secretary Paul Dijoud (1974–76), Labor Minister Christian Beullac (1976–78), and Foreign Trade Minister Jean-François Deniau (1978–81). At the same time, from 1976 to 1981 he was legal advisor to the Établissement public pour l'aménagement de la région de la Défense (EPAD), the public corporation responsible for the development of the high-rise La Défense district near Paris.

Political party

De Charette joined the liberal-conservative Parti républicain (PR) in 1977 , which was part of the party alliance Union pour la démocratie française (UDF) of President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing . After the change of government in 1981, he unsuccessfully ran for parliamentary elections in Menton and for mayoral election in 1983 in Nevers . In the UDF, Charette was considered a close confidante of chairman Valéry Giscard d'Estaing; In 1991 he took over the management of the clubs Perspectives et Réalités , associations of entrepreneurs and the self-employed who supported Giscard's politics.

Like Giscard, and in contrast to most of the UDF politicians, he supported the candidacy of Jacques Chirac in the 1995 presidential election and not the candidacy of Édouard Balladur . On July 1, 1995, the Perspectives et Réalités clubs, led by de Charette, became the Parti populaire pour la démocratie française (PPDF), with the aim of gathering Giscard's supporters within the UDF.

In 2002, Charette joined the center-right collecting party Union pour un mouvement populaire (UMP) of President Jacques Chirac. Under the name Convention démocrate, the PPDF transformed into an internal party flow of the UMP. In March 2006 he supported the suspension of the draft law on the Contrat première embauche (CPE) in the face of protests from student unions and youth organizations; At the same time he disavowed the policy of Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin by welcoming the establishment of a dialogue between the government, youth representatives, the social partners and social groups. Since 2007, Charette has actively supported Nicolas Sarkozy's policies .

In December 2009 Charette resigned from the UMP, which he described as "too right". He joined the Nouveau Center , a successor to the UDF, and initially brought the name UDF, which he personally patented, into the party. Since 2011, the Convention démocrate has been a separate party again, which in 2011 united with other middle-class middle parties to form the Alliance républicaine, écologiste et sociale (ARES) and in 2012 to form the Union des démocrates et indépendants .

MP and Minister

Then in March 1986 he was elected for the first time as a representative of the Nièvre department in the French National Assembly. However, he resigned his parliamentary mandate after a few days, as he was Deputy Minister for the Public Service ( Ministre délégué auprès du premier ministre, chargé de la fonction publique et du plan ) during the first cohabitation under Prime Minister Jacques Chirac from March 1986 to May 1988 . In June 1988 he was re-elected to the National Assembly, this time as a representative of the 6th constituency in the Maine-et-Loire department. His party was now in the opposition.

During the second cohabitation (1993-1995) he was under Prime Minister Édouard Balladur from March 1993 to May 1995 Minister for Housing ( Ministre du logement ). Under the government of Prime Minister Alain Juppé , de Charette was French Foreign Minister from May 1995 to June 1997 . In 1997, 2002 and 2007 he was re-elected as MP for the 6th constituency of the Maine-et-Loire department.

Local and regional level

From 1989 to 2014, Charette was mayor ( Maire ) of the small community of Saint-Florent-le-Vieil (Maine-et-Loire); from 1989 to 2008 also member of the municipal council . From 1992 to 2010 he was also a member of the regional council of the Pays de la Loire and was temporarily its vice-president.

According to politics

Since 2001, Charette is at the Paris Bar Association as an attorney admitted. He has been President of the Chambre de Commerce franco-arabe since June 2008 .

He is currently (as of July 2010) President of the Institut Français de Finance Islamique .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hervé Marie Joseph de Charette de la Contrie in: DER SPIEGEL of August 12, 1996
  2. ↑ Le giscardien Hervé de Charette quitte l'UMP in: Le Figaro of 7 December 2009
  3. ↑ Hervé de Charette, transfuge de l'UMP attendu au Nouveau Center in: Le Monde of December 8, 2009
  4. ↑ a b Herve de Charette in: DER SPIEGEL of December 4, 1995
  5. ^ M. Hervé de Charette, nouveau Président de la Chambre de Commerce Franco - Arabe Chambre De Commerce Franco Arabe of June 10, 2008
personal data
SURNAME Charette, Hervé de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Charette de la Contrie, Hervé Marie Joseph de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French politician (UMP, NC, PPDF), member of the National Assembly
DATE OF BIRTH July 30, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris