Maurice Leroy

Maurice Leroy (2009)

Maurice Leroy (born February 2, 1959 in Paris ) is a French economist and politician ( PCF , UDF , NC , UDI ). He was Vice President of the National Assembly from 2005-06, 2009-10 and 2018-19, and from November 2010 to May 2012 Minister of Urban Development.

Life

Promotion to Mayor

After attending school, Leroy studied economics and worked as an economist after completing his studies. At the beginning of the 1980s he switched to the civil service and was first office manager of the mayor of Orly between 1982 and 1984 , before he was subsequently advisor for finances, social affairs and general secretary of the group of the Parti communiste français (PCF) in the Senate until 1990 .

In 1989 he was elected mayor of the municipality of Le Poislay in the Loir-et-Cher department and held this office until 2001. In addition, from 1990 to 1991 he was head of cabinet of the President of the General Council of the Val-de-Marne department and then head of cabinet of the mayor of Nanterre , who was also a senator. After a brief stint as Head of Cabinet of the Mayor of Colombes , he was project manager for Pact 92 (urban policy) between 1993 and 1997 in the office of Charles Pasqua , who was then Minister of State and President of the General Council of Hauts-de-Seine . In the mid-1990s he moved from the communists to the center-right camp and joined the bourgeois Union pour la démocratie française (UDF).

In 1994 he was elected a member of the General Council of Loir-et-Cher and has since represented the canton of Droué . In addition, from 1995 to 1997 he was project manager for the Minister for Cities and Integration, Éric Raoult .

MP and Minister

On June 1, 1997 he was elected for the first time as a candidate of the UDF as a member of the National Assembly and after his re-elections on June 9, 2002 and June 17, 2007 he represented constituency III in the Loir-et-Cher department. Between January 2003 and May 2007 he was also the UDF's National Executive Secretary for federations, before moving from the UDF in 2007 to the Nouveau Center (NC) that emerged from it .

During his membership in the National Assembly he was a member of the Committees for Culture, Families and Social Affairs, for Economy, Environment and Territories, for Finance, General Economy and Budgetary Control, for Constitutional Law, Legislation and General Administration of the Republic as well as the Study Commission for Development the local tax. In addition, he was Vice President of the National Assembly for the first time from October 2004 to November 2006 and held this position again between October 2009 and November 2010.

From April 1, 2004 to July 2017, Leroy was also President of the General Council of the Loir-et-Cher department . He was appointed on November 14, 2010 by Prime Minister François Fillon to succeed Brice Hortefeux as Minister for the Cities ( Ministre de la Ville ) in his third cabinet and held this until May 15, 2012. After leaving the government, he was re-elected to the National Assembly in June 2012 as a member of the 3rd constituency of Loir-et-Cher . Since 2012 he has been a member of the Union des démocrates et indépendants (UDI), to which several middle-class middle parties have come together. From July 2018 to January 2019 he was again Vice President of the National Assembly.

Web links

Commons : Maurice Leroy - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

personal data
SURNAME	Leroy, Maurice
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French politician (UDF, NC), member of the National Assembly
DATE OF BIRTH	2nd February 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH	Paris

[1] Press release from the Ministry for the Cities

[2] France: Ministries, political parties, etc. from 1870