Monique Pelletier (politician)

Monique Denyse Pelletier (birth name Bédier) (born July 25, 1926 in Trouville-sur-Mer , Calvados department , France ) is a French politician .

biography

After attending the Lycée Racine in Paris , she studied law and was then from 1948 to 1960 as a public prosecutor in juvenile criminal matters in Nanterre . She then worked as a lawyer .

Monique Pelletier began her political career in the 1970s when she first became a member of the local council in 1971 and then Deputy Mayor of Neuilly-sur-Seine, the wealthiest suburb of Paris, in 1977 . Also a member of the Political Bureau of the Republican Party and in this capacity a supporter of Valéry Giscard d'Estaing in his candidacy for the French presidency in 1974. In 1977 she appointed President Giscard d'Estaing to lead a national investigation into drug addiction and substance abuse among young people . The conclusions of her report on drug abuse earned her the nickname "Madame Anti-Drogue".

In early 1978 it was of Prime Minister Raymond Barre to the Secretary of State for Justice Minister Alain Peyrefitte appointed.

On September 12, 1978 she appointed Barre as Minister Delegate for the Status of Women to the Prime Minister and thus for the first time a member of the government with responsibility for women was given the rank of minister , since the first "women minister" Françoise Giroud only the rank of State Secretary would have.

She welcomed the opportunity to speak with other ministers on an equal footing and stated that she saw herself as "the government's constant conscience on issues related to women". The mother of seven set one of her priorities in the preparation of a reform of marriage laws to make them more beneficial for women. She also began to work out questions about pensions with mothers of several children, but dismissed them as unrealistic proposals for a “housewife income ”, as she estimated the cost of such pay would exceed the income from income tax .

After the bourgeois electoral defeat, she resigned on March 4, 1981 and withdrew from political life to return to work as a lawyer.

In March 2000, President Jacques Chirac appointed her a member of the Conseil constitutionnel , the French constitutional court . She held this position until March 2004.

In 2007 she was named Commandeur de la Légion d'Honneur (C. LH) for her services . She is also the Commander of the Ordre national du Mérite .

Publications

• Droit dans ma vie. Guide iuridique pour tous et pour tous les jours . Stock, Paris 1975 (Laurence Pernoud Collection).
• Nous sommes toutes responsables . Stock, Paris 1981, ISBN 2-234-01395-X .
• La Ligne brisée . Flammarion, Paris 1995, ISBN 2-08-067163-4 .

Web links

• rulers.org