Jean-Pierre Soisson

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Jean-Pierre Soisson (front) at the celebrations for the 62nd anniversary of the liberation of Auxerre (2006)

Jean-Pierre Soisson (born November 9, 1934 in Auxerre , Yonne department ) is a former French politician of the Républicains indépendants (RI), the Union pour la démocratie française (UDF) and most recently the Union pour un mouvement populaire (UMP). Among other things, he was a member of the National Assembly , Mayor of Auxerre, President of the Regional Council of Burgundy and several times a minister in various departments (youth, labor, agriculture).

As a writer , he has written numerous books on historical and political topics as well as biographical works on personalities such as Charles the Bold , Charles V , Margaret of Burgundy , Philibert de Chalon and Paul Bert .

Life

Origin and studies

Jean-Pierre Soisson, son of Jacques Soisson and Denise Silve, completed his school education at the Lycée Jacques-Amyot in Auxerre, which Jean Vautrin and Guy Roux also attended. He took part in the Concours général and began studying law at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris (Sciences Po). During the Algerian War he served as a second lieutenant in the 3e régiment de chasseurs d'Afrique , which was under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Antoine Argoud between 1956 and 1958 . He then attended the École nationale d'administration (ENA), which he graduated in 1961 as a graduate of the "Lazare Carnot" class. He then took up a position at the Court of Auditors ( Cour des Comptes ) and was then employed by Edgar Faure and then by Yvon Bourges .

Political party

Soisson joined the liberal-conservative Républicains indépendants in 1967 . From 1977 to 1978 he was the first general secretary of the Parti républicain (PR), which emerged from the Républicains indépendants . Until 1992 he remained a member of this party and thus indirectly in the bourgeois party alliance Union pour la démocratie française (UDF), to which the PR belonged.

In March 1990, Soisson founded the small France unie party , which brought together bourgeois politicians who supported the center-left governments under François Mitterrand . She went in October 1992 together with Michel Durafours grouping Association of démocrates the Mouvement des réformateurs on (MDR), which united the bourgeois forces in Mitterrand's government.

After his expulsion from the UDF in 1998, Soisson did not join the Démocratie Libérale as a member, but was apparently close to it. In the 2002 presidential election , however, he did not support DL chairman Alain Madelin , but the incumbent Jacques Chirac from the Gaullist RPR . In the course of this election, Soisson joined Chirac's new center-right collecting party Union pour un mouvement populaire (UMP), in which both the RPR and the DL were absorbed.

MP

From July 11, 1968 to July 8, 1974, from April 3 to May 5, 1978, from July 2, 1981 to July 28, 1988, and from April 2, 1993 to June 19, 2012 Soisson was part of the French National Assembly (Assemblée national) , in which he represented the 1st constituency of the Yonne department . He resigned his mandate whenever he held a government office.

In the period from 1968 to 1974 he belonged to the faction of the Républicains indépendants . At the beginning of his membership in parliament he was a member of the Committee on Production and Trade (Commission de la production et des échanges) , on April 5, 1973, he became a member of the Committee on Culture, Families and Social Affairs (Commission des affaires culturelles, familiales et sociales) and finally Member of the Finance, General Economy and Planning Committee on April 2, 1974 (Commission des finances, de l'économie générale et du plan) .

From 1981 to 1988 he was again a member of the Committee on Finance, General Economics and Planning. He sat in the UDF parliamentary group and most recently in June and July 1988 in the Union du center , which positioned itself between the left government and the conservative opposition.

In the legislative period from 1993 to 1997 he was a non-attached member, in the following until 2002 he sat in the parliamentary group of the Démocratie Libérale , then in the UMP group. From 1993 to the end of September 2000 he was again a member of the Committee on Finance, General Economics and Planning, then until June 2007 a member of the Committee on Constitutional Law, Legislation, General Suffrage, Legal Systems and General Administration (Commission des lois constitutionnelles, de législation, du suffrage universel, du Règlement et d'administration générale) . Subsequently, he was a member of the Committee on Defense and Armed Forces (Commission de la défense nationale et des forces armées) until he left the National Assembly .

Local and regional policy

Soisson was elected Mayor of Auxerre on March 14, 1971 to succeed Jean Moreau . He was re-elected four times and held that office for 27 years. On April 5, 1998, Jean Garnault succeeded him.

He was also between January 1, 1983 and June 27, 1988 Vice President of the General Council of the Yonne Department. For the local elections in 1983 Soisson advocated collusion between the bourgeois parties and the right-wing extremist Front National in order to prevent the left parties from winning.

From March 17, 1986 to March 22, 1992 he was Vice-President of the Regional Council of Burgundy . As the successor to Raymond Janot , Jean-Pierre Soisson became President of the Regional Council of Burgundy for the first time on March 27, 1992 . He sat down as a candidate for the "presidential majority", i. H. PS and its allies, in the third ballot with a majority by one vote and apparently also received votes from the right-wing extremist Front National . On April 17, 1993, he resigned as President of the Regional Council, whereupon Jean-François Bazin of the Gaullist RPR became his successor.

On March 18, 1998, he took over from Jean-François Bazin again as President of the Regional Council of Burgundy, this time as a candidate for the civil alliance of the RPR and UDF. This election was controversial within the UDF, as the bourgeois alliance had only 24 of the 57 seats in the regional council (as many as the left-wing parties) and Soisson prevailed again only thanks to the votes of the Front National. Soisson held the office of regional president until the regional election on March 28, 2004. The UMP list cited by him fell to 21.8% in the first and 32.1% in the second ballot and received only 14 seats, while the left-wing alliance under François Patriat von Parti socialiste (PS) received a comfortable majority. Then he was from March 28, 2004 to March 28, 2010 only a simple member of the regional council.

Government offices at the national level

After the election of his party colleague Valéry Giscard d'Estaing as President and his resignation from the National Assembly, Soisson first became State Secretary for Universities (Secrétaire d'Etat aux universités) in the Chirac I cabinet on May 27, 1974 and held this office until January 12 1976 inside. In the course of a restructuring of the cabinet, he then acted from then to August 25, 1976 as State Secretary for Vocational Training at the Prime Minister (Secrétaire d'Etat auprès du premier ministre, chargé de la formation professionnelle) . In the Barre I cabinet that followed , he took over the post of State Secretary for Youth and Sport at the Minister for Quality of Life on August 27, 1976 (Secrétaire d'Etat auprès du ministre de la qualité de la vie, chargé de la jeunesse et des sports) .

On April 7, 1978, Soisson became Minister for Youth, Sport and Leisure (Ministre de la jeunesse, des sports et des loisirs) in the Barre III cabinet and held this ministerial office until May 13, 1981.

In the socialist-dominated Rocard II cabinet , Soisson took over the office of Minister for Labor, Employment and Vocational Education (Ministre du travail, de l'emploi et de la formation professionnelle) on June 29, 1988 and held this office until May 16, 1991. He thus represented the overture , i.e. H. the opening of the actually left-wing government to bourgeois forces in order to broaden their majority. He then served in the likewise largely left-wing cabinet of Cresson between May 17, 1991 and March 29, 1992 Minister of State and Minister of Public Administration and Administrative Modernization (Ministre d'Etat, Ministre de la fonction publique et de la modernization administrative) .

In the course of a restructuring of the Bérégovoy cabinet , Soisson replaced the Minister of Agriculture and Forestry Louis Mermaz on October 2, 1992 and took over the renamed ministerial position as Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development (Ministre de l'agriculture et du développement rural) . His appointment provoked criticism from the Parti socialiste because of his collaboration with the National Front at the regional level. He headed the Ministry of Agriculture until March 29, 1993.

Publications

As a writer, Soisson wrote biographical works on historical figures such as Philibert de Chalon

Jean-Pierre Soisson is also active as a writer and has written numerous books on historical and political topics as well as biographical works on personalities such as Charles the Bold , Charles V , Margaret of Burgundy , Philibert de Chalon and Paul Bert . His publications include:

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Klaus H. Fischer: Citizens and parties. Procedures of German and European politics . Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 1993, p. 86.
  2. ↑ a b Chronologie de Démocratie Libérale DL
  3. ^ Martina Lizarazo López: France's political response to demographic development. Tradition and realignment in the 1970s and 1980s. Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2018, p. 497.
  4. ^ German-French Institute (ed.): France Yearbook 1992. Politics, economy, society, history, culture. Leske + Budrich, Opladen 1992, chronicle August 1991 to July 1992 , p. 230.
  5. ↑ a b France: Regions (rulers.org)
  6. ^ Andrew Knapp: Parties and the Party System in France. A disconnected democracy? Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke (Hants) / New York 2004, p. 228.
  7. ↑ France: March 21, 2004 (rulers.org)
  8. ↑ Chirac I cabinet
  9. ^ Cabinet Barre I.
  10. ↑ Barre III cabinet
  11. ↑ Cabinet Barre III (kolumbus.fi)
  12. ↑ a b c d France: Ministries, political parties, etc. from 1870 (rulers.org)
  13. ^ Cabinet Rocard II
  14. ↑ Cabinet Rocard II (kolumbus.fi)
  15. ^ Cresson's cabinet
  16. ↑ Cresson's cabinet (kolumbus.fi)
  17. ^ Ina Stephan: Rise and Change of the Parti socialiste in the Mitterand era (1971–1995). Leske + Budrich, Opladen 2001, p. 135.
  18. ^ Bérégovoy cabinet
  19. ↑ Bérégovoy cabinet (kolumbus.fi)
personal data
SURNAME Soisson, Jean-Pierre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French politician (RI, UDF, UMP), member of the National Assembly
DATE OF BIRTH November 9, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Auxerre , Yonne department