Marielle de Sarnez

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Marielle de Sarnez (2014)

Marielle Lebel de Sarnez (born March 27, 1951 in the 7th arrondissement of Paris ) is a French politician of the Mouvement démocrate . From 1999 to 2017 she was a member of the European Parliament and temporarily deputy chair of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe .

Life

Youth and private life

Marielle de Sarnez 'father was the Resistance fighter and Gaullist politician Olivier de Sarnez (1927-2013). She began her political involvement to support Valéry Giscard d'Estaing's candidacy in the 1974 presidential election . In 1973 she joined the Jeunes Républicains (youth organization of the Républicains indépendants ), which later became the Mouvement des jeunes giscardiens ("Movement of young Giscard supporters"), of which de Sarnez was vice-president. She was also Vice President of the European Democrat Students , a Europe-wide association of conservative student associations. In 1977 she became a full-time employee of the Parti républicain , the successor party of the Républicains indépendants. In the following year she helped found the Union pour la démocratie française (UDF), an alliance of the bourgeois parties that supported Giscard's presidency.

In 1978 she married Philippe Augier , who was also involved with the Giscard youth. The two have two children, but divorced in 1988 and de Sarnez returned to her maiden name.

Party and election campaign manager

In the 1970s and 1980s she worked for the UDF Chairman Jean Lecanuet and the EU Parliament President Simone Veil . In 1980 and 1981 she was the chief organizer of the fêtes de la Liberté , major UDF events, to which the rock band The Police was hired for the second year . In 1988 she was campaign assistant for UDF presidential candidate Raymond Barre . The following year, François Bayrou became general secretary of the UDF and Marielle de Sarnez his deputy. In addition, she took over the position of general secretary of the opposition alliance made up of the UDF and the Gaullist RPR against the government of François Mitterrand .

From 1993 to 1997 she was advisor to François Bayrous in his role as Minister of Education. Since then she has remained politically close to him. In 1999 she became a member of the European Parliament . She also became a city councilor in Paris in 2001. When most of the members of the UDF, including the founder Giscard, converted to the UMP in 2002, de Sarnez remained in the centrist party led by Bayrou. This strengthened the friendship between the two politicians and confirmed de Sarnez 'role as Bayrou's “right-hand man”. The UDF left the Christian Democratic European People's Party in 2004 and founded the European Democratic Party (EDP) with other pro-European center parties , of which de Sarnez became General Secretary. In the same year she was re-elected as an EU parliamentarian. In 2006 she was elected President of the Paris UDF Association.

Sarnez with François Bayrou (2008)

For the presidential election in 2007 she led the election campaign François Bayrous, who received 18.6% of the vote in the first ballot (comparatively high for a UDF candidate). After this election, the UDF split again and transformed into the Mouvement démocrate (MoDem), of which de Sarnez was deputy chairman. In the parliamentary elections in June 2007 she ran for the UDF / MoDem, which now positioned itself right in the middle and no longer made agreements with the UMP, who was further to the right. In the 11th constituency of Paris she received 11.9 percent of the vote. In the Paris local elections in March 2008, she was the top candidate for MoDem, which received 9.1 percent of the vote. In the 2009 European elections , she ran as the top candidate for MoDem in the constituency of Île-de-France and headed the election campaign of the Mouvement démocrate.

Activity as a member of the European Union

From 1999 to 2004 de Sarnez was a board member of the Christian Democratic EPP Group in the European Parliament. After the UDF left the EPP in 2004 and formed the Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) with the previous Liberal Group , de Sarnez was deputy group chairwoman until she left the EU Parliament in 2017. She was a member of the Committee on Culture and Education from 2001 to 2009 and the Committee on International Trade from 2009 to 2017 . She was also a delegate in the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly . She resigned her mandate on May 17, 2017 after being appointed Minister in the Philippe Cabinet .

Minister and Member of Parliament

Following the election of Emmanuel Macron as French President, on May 15, 2017, de Sarnez was appointed Assistant Minister for European Affairs in the new government under Édouard Philippe . Just over a month later, after the suspicion of illegal employment of employees of the MoDem MEPs for party purposes, she announced that she was giving up the ministerial office in the course of the reorganization of the government after the parliamentary elections. Shortly before her, the two other MoDem ministers, François Bayrou and Sylvie Goulard , had already announced their withdrawal.

In the 2017 parliamentary elections , de Sarnez was elected to the National Assembly for Paris . When she retired as minister, she announced that she would now take over the chairmanship of the parliamentary group of MoDem, but withdrew shortly before the election. Successor as minister was the previous director of the ENA administration college , Nathalie Loiseau .

Web links

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  1. ^ Bernard Lecomte, Christian Sauvage: Les Giscardiens. Albin Michel, Paris 1978, entry Marielle Augier .
  2. ^ Marielle de Sarnez , Gala.
  3. ↑ Anita Hausser, Olivier Biscaye: Ennemis de trente ans. Éditions du moment, Paris 2016. Chapter L'éléphant et le léopard.
  4. ^ Marie-Laure Delorme: Parce ce que c'était lui - Parce ce que c'était moi. De l'amitié en politique. Grasset, 2019.
  5. ^ Website of the European Parliament
  6. ^ A b François Bayrou et Marielle de Sarnez quittent le gouvernement. In: Le Monde (online). June 21, 2017, accessed June 21, 2017 (French).
  7. ↑ Marc Fesneau élu du président groupe MoDem à l'Assemblée nationale. In: Le Figaro (online). June 25, 2017, accessed August 4, 2017 (French).
  8. ↑ Government restructuring : Macron appoints three new ministers. ORF , June 21, 2017, accessed on the same day.
personal data
SURNAME Sarnez, Marielle de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lebel de Sarnez, Marielle (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French politician (UDF, MoDem), MEP
DATE OF BIRTH March 27, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris