Jean Tiberi
Jean Tiberi (born January 30, 1935 in Paris ) is a French politician ( UDR , RPR , UMP ). He was a member of the National Assembly from 1968 to 2012 and Mayor of Paris from 1995 to 2001 . From 1983 to 1995 and again from 2001 to 2014 he was district mayor of the 5th arrondissement in Paris .
Political career
Jean Tiberi's parents came from Corsica, but he was born and raised in Paris. As a 15-year-old student at the renowned Lycée Louis-le-Grand , he joined the Rassemblement du peuple français (RPF), the party of General de Gaulle . After studying law, he joined the judiciary as a magistrate , became a judge in Beauvais , before taking up a post in the Justice Department. He married Xavière Casanova, with whom he has two children.
Political career
Within the Gaullist movement, he was initially close to the left wing around René Capitant and was elected to the parish council of Paris for the first time in 1965. When Capitant was appointed Minister of Justice in May 1968, Tiberi - now a member of the Union des démocrates pour la République (UDR) - took up his seat in the National Assembly. He was confirmed as a member of parliament in the early elections in June 1968 and 1973. From January to August 1976 he was State Secretary for the Food Industry in the Chirac I cabinet . He then returned as a member of the National Assembly.
For a long time, Jean Tiberi was a follower of Jacques Chirac , who founded the neo-Gaulle party Rassemblement pour la République (RPR) in 1976 and became the first directly elected mayor of Paris the following year. Chirac named Tiberi his first deputy in March 1983. In the same year, the office of district mayor was introduced in the arrondissements (boroughs) of Paris and Tiberi was elected first mayor of the 5th arrondissement , in which the Latin Quarter with the Sorbonne University and the Paris Panthéon is located. In this office he was confirmed in all subsequent local elections until 2008. From 1983 he was also Deputy Mayor of Paris in charge of housing. In addition, he remained a member of the National Assembly, where he represented the second constituency of Paris (this includes the 5th arrondissement and parts of neighboring districts).
After Chirac's election as president in 1995, he proposed Tiberi as his successor as mayor of Paris, to the great indignation of some other RPR politicians , including the then Justice Minister Jacques Toubon , who was also the district mayor of the 13th arrondissement . Tiberi won the local elections in June 1995 with 47.9% in the second ballot against Bertrand Delanoë by the socialists and was elected mayor of Paris. Jacques Toubon resigned in 1998 with a group of his supporters from the RPR parliamentary group in the local council, but failed in the attempt to vote Tiberi out.
Due to various Tiberi affairs (see below) and internal party disputes, the RPR did not nominate him for the 2001 local elections, but Philippe Séguin as the top candidate. Tiberi then applied with its own list, which received 13.9% in the first and 12.3% in the second ballot. This led to the fact that the bourgeois camp - despite an arithmetical majority in the votes cast - won fewer seats than the left and Tiberi had to hand over the office of mayor to Bertrand Delanoë, which was the first time a socialist moved into the Paris City Hall.
However, Tiberi remained district mayor of the 5th arrondissement. He was also confirmed as a member of the National Assembly in 2002 and 2007. In the parliamentary elections in 2012 he decided against running again, his constituency was then taken over by François Fillon . In the 2014 local elections, he no longer ran for district mayor, but only as a simple member of the local council, of which he has been a permanent member since 1965.
Affairs and criminal proceedings
Tiberi has a dubious reputation for being involved in several financial and election affairs, including his wife Xavière Tiberi. In 1997, Tiberi came under suspicion of having manipulated the elections in the 5th arrondissement with "fake voters" (faux électeurs) . His socialist rival Lyne Cohen-Solal and the investigative newspaper Le Canard enchaîné accused him of having had people on the electoral roll since 1989 who did not even live in this district. The Conseil constitutionnel found manipulation in 1998, but ruled that this was not decisive for the election, as Tiberi had won the 1997 election by a clear margin.
The criminal proceedings in this matter dragged on for several years. The criminal court (tribunal correctionnel) of Paris found Tiberi guilty in 2009 in the first instance of complicity in electoral fraud and sentenced him to a 10-month suspended prison sentence, a fine of 10,000 euros and the loss of the right to stand for three years. On Tiberi's appeal, the Cour d'appel upheld the 2013 judgment; the appeal was rejected by the Cour de cassation in March 2015 , making the judgment final.
Another criminal case, dating from 1999 and relating to his role as president of the social housing association OPAC, was closed in 2005 by non-lieu .
Mandates
- Since 1965: Member of the Paris City Council
- August 13, 1968 February 12, 1976: Member of the National Assembly (4th and 5th electoral terms, resigning from office because of joining the government)
- January 12, 1976 to August 25, 1976: State Secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture and Ministry of Research, responsible for the food industry
- November 15, 1976 to May 2012: Member of the National Assembly (6th to 13th electoral term)
- March 14, 1983 to May 21, 1995: Deputy Mayor ( Adjoint au Maire ) of Paris
- Since March 14, 1983: Member of the City Council of the 5th arrondissement of Paris
- March 29, 1983 to May 21, 1995: Mayor of the 5th arrondissement of Paris
- May 22, 1995 to March 18, 2001: Mayor of Paris
- April 2, 2001 to April 13, 2014: Mayor of the 5th arrondissement of Paris
Web links
- Jean Tiberi on the website of the French National Assembly for the 13th legislative period (French)
- “Jean Tiberi - Mon projet pour Paris” ( Memento of August 11, 2006 in the Internet Archive ). Jean Tiberi's campaign blog (French)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jean-Philippe Immarigeon: Autopsy de la fraude électorale. Stock, Paris 2000.
- ^ Jean Tiberi, ex-maire de Paris, jugé inéligible pour trois ans. Reuters, May 27, 2009.
- ↑ Stéphane Durand-Souffland: Faux électeurs: la Cour de cassation rejette le pourvoi des époux Tiberi. In: Le Figaro , March 3, 2015.
| Predecessor Jacques Chirac |
Mayor of Paris
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Successor Bertrand Delanoë |
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| SURNAME | Tiberi, Jean |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French politician, member of the National Assembly |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 30, 1935 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |