Michel Crépeau

Michel Crépeau (born October 30, 1930 in Fontenay-le-Comte , Vendée , † March 30, 1999 in Paris ) was a French politician of the Parti radical de gauche . He was the long-time mayor of La Rochelle and a member of the National Assembly, as well as environment, trade and justice minister.

Life

Crépeau studied law at the University of Bordeaux . After graduating, he worked as a lawyer in La Rochelle .

He began his political career in 1958 as a member of the Parti radical . In 1967 he was elected to the General Council of the Département. From 1971 until his death in 1999 he was mayor of the port city of La Rochelle. In this position he was particularly committed to environmental protection. He prevented construction projects directly on the coast and had the green areas expanded. In 1973 he introduced a recycling system , in 1975 the first pedestrian zone in France and a year later a free bike rental system (Vélos Jaunes) .

In 1972 he was one of the co-founders of the Mouvement des radicaux de gauche (MRG), a left split from the Parti radical, from which the Parti radical de gauche (PRG) later emerged. From 1973 to 1981 he was a member of the National Assembly (with interruptions when he was in government). As Robert Fabre's successor , he was party chairman of the MRG from 1978 to 1981. He was the candidate of his party for the presidential election in 1981 ; he received around 640,000 votes (2.2%) in the first ballot. His successor at the party leadership was Roger-Gérard Schwartzenberg .

During François Mitterrand's presidency , Crépeau was Environment Minister in the Mauroy Cabinet from May 1981 to March 1983 , then Minister for Trade, Crafts and Tourism in the Mauroy III and Fabius Cabinets until February 1986 . Crépeau was Robert Badinter's successor from February to March 1986 Minister of Justice of France. Then there was a change of government to the center-right camp and the Gaullist Albin Chalandon took over the office. Crépeau was re-elected as a member of the National Assembly, where he represented the 1st constituency of Charente-Maritime until his death. Most recently, from 1997, he was parliamentary group chairman of the Groupe radical, citoyen et vert , a parliamentary group of PRG, Mouvement des citoyens and the Greens .

Web links

• Biography at the National Assembly

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Pascal Dauvin: Quand l'environnement et la participation deviennent des instruments de la communication événementielle. L'exemple de la première journée sans voiture à Le Rochelle. In: Jean-Michel Utard u. a .: Les mondes de la communication publique. Presses universitaires de Rennes, Rennes 2014, pp. 101–114, on p. 104.