Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet

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Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet (2014)

Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet (often called NKM in France ; born May 14, 1973 in Paris , France ) is a French politician . She was a member of the French National Assembly from 2002–2007 and 2012–2017 . From 2010 to 2012 she was Minister for the Environment , Sustainable Development, Transport and Housing. She was the UMP candidate for mayor in the 2014 Paris municipal elections. From 2014 to 2015 she was deputy chairman of the UMP and its successor party Les Républicains .

Family, education and work

She comes from an old French family of politicians with Polish origins. Her great-grandfather André Morizet (1876–1942) was a socialist senator, mayor of Boulogne-Billancourt and co-founder of the French Communist Party . Her grandfather Jacques Kosciusko-Morizet (1913-1994) was the French ambassador (including in the United States) and mayor of Saint-Nom-la-Bretèche . Her father François Kosciusko-Morizet (1940-2015) was mayor of Sèvres until his death . Her mother Bénédicte Treuille was a physics professor at the University of Paris-South . Her younger brother is the entrepreneur Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet (* 1977), founder of the PriceMinister online purchases site .

Kosciusko-Morizet attended the Lycée Louis-le-Grand and then studied at the École polytechnique (graduated in 1992). She did her military service in the Navy and served as the first officer (chef de quart) of a ship stationed in Djibouti . She then graduated from the École nationale du génie rural, des eaux et des forêts (land, water and forest engineering) in AgroParisTech . In 1997 she did her MBA at the Collège des Ingénieurs . Then she was employed in the Ministry of Economy and Finance ; from 1999 she worked at the State Secretariat for Foreign Trade. From May to July 2002 she was a technical advisor on the environment and sustainable development on the staff of Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin .

In 2003 Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet married the strategy advisor and former mayor of Villefontaine , Jean-Pierre Philippe, with whom she has two children. The couple divorced in 2016. After retiring from politics, she became a digital economy specialist at the management consultancy Capgemini in 2018 .

Political career

Kosciusko-Morizet in 2006

From 2002 until she joined the government in 2007, she was a member of the National Assembly for the Essonne department . From 2004 to 2010 she was also regional councilor of Île-de-France and from 2008 mayor of Longjumeau.

After the parliamentary elections in 2007 , she was appointed State Secretary in the Ministry of the Environment in the government of François Fillon ( Fillon II cabinet ). In January 2009, her responsibility changed to State Secretary for Future Research and the IT Industry, and she was then directly subordinate to the Prime Minister. When the Fillon III government was formed in November 2010, she was appointed to succeed Jean-Louis Borloo in the French Ministry of the Environment. She resigned from this position in February 2012 when she was appointed campaign spokeswoman for incumbent President Nicolas Sarkozy for the 2012 presidential election .

After Sarkozy's defeat, she was re-elected MP for Essonne in the subsequent parliamentary elections. She announced her candidacy for the chairmanship of the UMP, but did not reach the number of supporters required for the application. In this context she founded La France droite , a political movement within the UMP.

On February 14, 2013, Kosciusko-Morizet announced her application to run for the UMP as mayor of Paris, for which she resigned as mayor of Longjumeau shortly afterwards . In the open area code of the UMP in Paris, she clearly prevailed against her three competitors with almost 60 percent in the first ballot. Polls predicted a close decision between the UMP list she kept and the election alliance led by the Parti Socialiste around Anne Hidalgo for the election at the end of March 2014 . In the first ballot, the UMP was the strongest force; in the second ballot, however, Kosciusko-Morizet lost with 43.7% against 53.3% for Hidalgo.

In December 2014, Kosciusko-Morizet was elected Vice-Chair of the UMP, which renamed itself Les Républicains in 2015 . Before the second round of regional elections in France in 2015 , she criticized party leader Nicolas Sarkozy for his refusal to cooperate with the Socialists (PS) against the Front National (FN); this then dismissed them from the party leadership. Kosciusko-Morizet criticized this approach as "Stalinist".

In autumn 2016, she was the only woman among seven candidates in the Republican Party's primary elections for the 2017 presidential election , but dropped out in the first round on November 20, 2016 in fourth place with 2.6% of the vote. She then spoke out in favor of Alain Juppé , the second of the primary elections, for the runoff election on November 27, 2016.

In the parliamentary elections in June 2017, she decided to run in downtown Paris instead of her previous constituency in Essonne. However, she suffered a defeat in the second ballot against the candidate of the liberal party La République en Marche and since then has only been active as a local politician in the city ​​of Paris . In August 2018, she also gave up her seat on the Paris municipal council and thus withdrew completely from politics.

Works (selection)

  • Les Petits matins, essai sur la pensée politique. In collaboration with Jérôme Peyrat, Ramsay, April 2002, ISBN 2-84114-613-8 .
  • Relatif report à la Charte de l'environnement. Edition La Documentation Française, Collection "Documents législatifs", May 1, 2004, ISBN 2-11-118375-X .
  • Le changement climatique: aubaine ou désastre? jointly with Adret, François Bayrou, Sylvie Faucheux, Nicolas Hulot, Alain Juppé, Jean-Yves Le Déaut, Hervé Le Treut, Gilles Pennequin, Michel Rocard, Loup Verlet, Hubert Védrine et Dominique Voynet, Edition Cerf, Collection «L'histoire à vif », February 1, 2007, ISBN 978-2-204-08360-7 .
  • L'homme saura-t-il réparer ce qu'il détruit? with Dominique Voynet, Forum Liberation de Grenoble, CD Frémeaux et Associés , 2008.
  • Tu viens? Gallimard, coll. "Hors série Connaissance", 2009, ISBN 978-2-07-012777-1 .
  • Le front antinational. Éditions du Moment, 2011, ISBN 978-2-35417-134-6 .

Web links

Commons : Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Sarkozy's campaign spokeswoman leaves government. In: ORF . February 22, 2012. Retrieved February 23, 2012 .
  2. ↑ Laure Noualhat: Plante grimpante. In: Liberation , July 18, 2007.
  3. ↑ Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, secrétaire d'Etat à l'Ecologie. In: LaDepeche.fr , June 19, 2007.
  4. ^ NKM quitte la politique pour rejoindre Capgemini à New York. In: L'Express , February 7, 2018.
  5. ↑ Spokesperson appointed: Nicolas Sarkozy opens campaign headquarters. In: Handelsblatt.com , February 16, 2012, accessed on February 18, 2012.
  6. ↑ Sarkozy throws his deputy out. welt.de, December 14, 2015, accessed December 14, 2015
  7. ↑ Sarkozy dismisses his deputy In: faz.net , December 14, 2015, accessed on December 19, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Kosciusko-Morizet, Nathalie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French engineer and politician (UMP), member of the National Assembly
DATE OF BIRTH May 14, 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris