Michèle Alliot-Marie

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Michèle Alliot-Marie (2009)

Michèle Jeanne Honorine Alliot-Marie (born September 10, 1946 in Villeneuve-le-Roi , Seine-et-Oise , now Val-de-Marne ) is a French politician and was from November 14, 2010 to February 27, 2011 Foreign Minister in the government of François Fillon . She was the first woman in this office.

Political career

Michèle Alliot-Marie holds a doctorate in law and a diploma in ethnology . In 1986 she was elected to the French National Assembly and has since represented the 6th constituency of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department .

In the government of Jacques Chirac , she was Minister of Education from 1986 to 1988. From 1989 to 1992 she was a member of the European Parliament . In the government of Édouard Balladur (1993 to 1995), she headed the Ministry of Youth and Sport.

From 1999 to 2002 she was party president of the RPR . From 2002 to 2007 she headed the Ministry of Defense , first in the government of Jean-Pierre Raffarin and from 2005 under his successor Dominique de Villepin .

At the end of December 2006, Alliot-Marie announced that she did not want to run for the UMP as a candidate for the 2007 presidential election. At first it did not rule out an independent candidacy, but waived in favor of the later election winner Nicolas Sarkozy in order not to reduce the conservatives' chances of victory .

From May 18, 2007 until a cabinet reshuffle in June 2009, she served in the Fillon government as Minister for Internal Affairs, Overseas and Local Authorities, then as Minister of Justice. In November 2010, he moved to the Foreign Ministry.

Alliot-Marie came under fire for her offer, made in the National Assembly on January 11, 2011 during the unrest in Tunisia 2010/2011 , to send police aid from France to the Tunisian government in order to "regulate this type of security situation". She is said to have spent several vacations in Tunisia, where she stayed in the hotel of the Tunisian businessman Aziz Miled. He had the French foreign minister picked up in France in his private jet. Aziz Miled is said to have ties to the former First Lady's clan. Real estate deals that her elderly parents, who accompanied her on this trip, had concluded with business partners close to the Tunisian dictator caused additional criticism. Alliot-Marie commented on the opposition's demands for resignation and said she had been deceived. On February 27, 2011, she resigned from her ministerial office.

Web links

Commons : Michèle Alliot-Marie  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Christian Schubert: French-Tunisian relations: reinterpretations and self-criticism . Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , January 19, 2011, accessed on September 10, 2016.
  2. ↑ Les relations (très secrètes) de MAM avec la Tunisie . webdo.tn, February 2, 2011, accessed on September 10, 2016 (French: "MAM's (very secret) relations with Tunisia").
  3. ^ French Foreign Minister resigns - fateful vacation . Süddeutsche Zeitung , February 28, 2011, accessed on September 10, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Alliot-Marie, Michèle
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Alliot-Marie, Michèle Jeanne Honorine (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French politician, MEP
DATE OF BIRTH September 10, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Villeneuve-le-Roi