Jean-Paul Delevoye

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Jean-Paul Delevoye (2013)

Jean-Paul Delevoye ( pronounced : [dələvwa] ; born January 22, 1946 in Bapaume , Pas-de-Calais ) is a French politician ( RPR , UMP , LREM ). From 1992 to 2002 he was a member of the French Senate ; from 2002 to 2004 Minister for Public Administration, State Reform and Regional Planning. From 2017 to 2019, Delevoye was High Commissioner for Pension Reform.

Life and political career

Delevoye studied at the Institut supérieur d'agriculture (ISA) in Lille until he was de-registered in 1968 for "disobedience". After completing his military service at the Saint-Cyr Military School , he worked in his family's business.

As a member of the Gaullist party Rassemblement pour la République , he was elected to the General Council of the Pas-de-Calais Department in 1980, to which he belonged until 2001. After the death of his mentor Henri Guidet , he was mayor of his home town of Bapaume in northern France from 1982 to 2002 . From 1986 to 1988 he was a member of the French National Assembly . From 1992 to 2002 he was a representative of the Pas-de-Calais department in the Senate . At the same time, he was chairman of the Association des maires de France , an association of French mayors.

In 2002, the RPR merged with the center-right rallying party Union pour un mouvement populaire (UMP), whose association headed the Pas-de-Calais Delevoye department. In May 2002 he was appointed Minister for Public Administration, State Reform and Regional Planning in the government of Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin and President Jacques Chirac . After two years in government, Chirac appointed Delevoye as ombudsman ( Médiateur de la République ) in April 2004 , a position he held until the post was terminated in June 2011. He was also Mayor of Bapaume again from 2004 to 2014.

From 2010 to 2015 he was chairman of the Conseil économique, social et environnemental , an assembly of interest groups (employees, employers, associations) that advises on French legislation. In 2013 he resigned from the UMP when he supported Jean-Jacques Cottel from the Parti socialiste as successor in the mayor's office of Bapaume. He replaced Delevoye as mayor in April 2014.

In the presidential election 2017 supported Delevoye Emmanuel Macron . In the run-up to the general election in June 2017 , Jean-Paul Delevoye was chairman of the appeal committee for the candidates from Macron's La République en Marche (LREM) party. In September 2017, President Macron appointed Delevoye High Commissioner for Pension Reform, which aims to unify the 42 different pension systems in France. In the course of the protests and strikes against the pension reforms Delevoye was criticized for his numerous sideline jobs. In his declaration to the Authority for Transparency in Political Life (HATVP), he failed to disclose his work for the private Institut de formation de la profession de l'assurance (IFPASS), which is related to the Association of the French Insurance Industry. On December 16, 2019, he resigned as High Commissioner for Pension Reform.

Web links

Commons : Jean-Paul Delevoye  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Marie Boëton: Jean-Paul Delevoye, vigie de la République. In: La Croix , May 2, 2010.
  2. ^ Municipales à Bapaume: Delevoye quitte l'UMP et soutient le PS. In: Le Parisien , November 1, 2013.
  3. ↑ Comment Macron recrute ses candidats aux législatives. In: Paris Match , March 9, 2017.
  4. ↑ Déclaration d'intérêts: Delevoye démissionne de ses fonctions au seine d'un institut de formation de l'assurance. In: Le Monde , December 9, 2019.
  5. ↑ Pension Commissioner of the French Government resigns. In: Zeit Online , December 16, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Delevoye, Jean-Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French politician
DATE OF BIRTH January 22, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Bapaume , France