Raffarin I cabinet

The Cabinet Raffarin I was from 6 May to 17 June 2002, the French government under Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin and President Jacques Chirac .

The cabinet only served for a transitional period between the presidential election and the 2002 parliamentary elections . The previous government, the Jospin cabinet , resigned on May 6, 2002, the day after the second round of the presidential election. The re-elected President Jacques Chirac then nominated a bourgeois prime minister, despite the left parliamentary majority. The day after the second round of parliamentary elections, on June 17, 2002, the Raffarin I government resigned as usual after parliamentary elections. Jean-Pierre Raffarin was immediately reassigned to form the government and formed the Raffarin II cabinet .

Most government members belonged to the Union pour la majorité présidentielle (UMP) , which was founded during the presidential election , at that time an alliance of parties including the Rassemblement pour la République (RPR), the Démocratie libérale (DL) and the Parti radical valoisien (PRV) . Many members of the Union pour la démocratie française (UDF) also switched to the UMP.

prime minister

Office	Surname	Political party
prime minister	Jean-Pierre Raffarin	UMP / DL

minister

Office	Surname	Political party
Minister of the Interior, Internal Security and Local Freedoms	Nicolas Sarkozy	UMP / RPR
Minister for Social Affairs, Labor and Solidarity	François Fillon	UMP / RPR
Minister of Justice	Dominique Perben	UMP / RPR
Minister for Foreign Affairs, Cooperation and Francophonie	Dominique de Villepin	UMP / RPR
Minister of Defense and Veterans	Michèle Alliot-Marie	UMP / RPR
Minister for Youth, Education and Research	Luc Ferry	independent
Minister of Economy, Finance and Industry	Francis Mer	independent
Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Housing, Tourism and the Sea	Gilles de Robien	UDF
Minister for Environment and Sustainable Development	Roselyne Bachelot	UMP / RPR
Minister for Health, Family and Disabled People	Jean-François Mattei	UMP / DL
Minister for Agriculture, Food, Fisheries and Rural Affairs	Hervé Gaymard	UMP / RPR
Minister for Culture and Communication	Jean-Jacques Aillagon	UMP / RPR
Minister for Administration, State Reform and Regional Planning	Jean-Paul Delevoye	UMP / RPR
Minister for Overseas	Brigitte Girardin	UMP
Minister of Sport	Jean-François Lamour	UMP

Associate Minister

Office	Surname	Political party	assigned ministry
Minister for Budget	Alain Lambert	UMP / ex- UDF	Ministry of Economy, Finance and Industry
Minister for Local Freedoms	Patrick Devedjian	UMP / RPR	Ministry of the Interior, Homeland Security and Local Freedoms
Minister for European Affairs	Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres	UMP / ex-UDF	Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Cooperation and Francophonie
Minister for School Education	Xavier Darcos	UMP / RPR	Ministry of Youth, Education and Research
Minister for Higher Education and Research	François Loos	UMP / PRV	Ministry of Youth, Education and Research
Minister for Cities	Jean-Louis Borloo	UMP / PRV	Minister for Social Affairs, Labor and Solidarity

State Secretaries

Office	Surname	Political party	assigned ministry
State Secretary for Relations with Parliament, Government Spokesman	Jean-François Copé	UMP / RPR	prime minister
State Secretary for Sustainable Development	Tokia Saïfi	UMP / GE	Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development
State Secretary for the fight against precarization and exclusion	Dominique Versini	UMP / RPR	Ministry of Social Affairs, Labor and Solidarity
Secretary of State for Small and Medium Enterprises, Commerce, Crafts, Liberal Professions and Consumption	Renaud Dutreil	UMP / PRV	Ministry of Economy, Finance and Industry
State Secretary for the Sea	Nicole Ameline	UMP / DL	Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Housing, Tourism and the Sea
State Secretary for Transport	Dominique Bussereau	UMP / DL	Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Housing, Tourism and the Sea

Web links

French Prime Minister's website