Nicole Questiaux

Nicole Questiaux ( maiden name: Nicola Valayer ; born December 19, 1930 in Nantes , Loire-Atlantique ) is a French administrative scientist and politician of the Parti socialiste (PS), who was briefly a member of the National Assembly and temporarily a minister.

Life

Nicole Valeyer, the daughter of an engineer , completed her school education with a Baccalauréat in Casablanca and then studied at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris (IEP de Paris). She then completed further studies at the École nationale d'administration between 1953 and 1955 and, after graduating, worked at the Conseil d'État , which is both the highest administrative court and advisory body to the government. Her last position was there in 1962 as a rapporteur in a litigation department. Subsequently, between 1963 and 1974 she was government commissioner for affairs of the Conseil d'État at the National Assembly.

Through the influence of the MP and later Senator Georges Dayan , she came into contact with François Mitterrand in the 1960s and was won over for his party Convention des institutions républicains (CIR). In addition to her professional activity, in 1970 she became head of the National Delegation for the Unity of Socialists, which took care of party-organized and non-organized socialists . She was one of the first speakers at the Parti Socialiste congress in Épinay-sur-Seine and became a member of the board of directors at the 1975 party congress in Pau .

In 1980 she became a member of the Conseil d'État as Conseiller d'État.

On May 22, 1981, Nicole Questiaux was appointed Minister for National Solidarity (Ministre de la Solidarité nationale) in his cabinet by Prime Minister Pierre Mauroy . However, she only held the ministerial office until March 22, 1982 and was then replaced by Pierre Bérégovoy . In the elections of June 21, 1981, as a candidate for the PS in the Paris XIII constituency , she also became a member of the National Assembly, but resigned her mandate on July 24, 1981 after being appointed to the second cabinet that was then formed on June 22, 1981.

After her resignation, she returned to the Conseil d'État as a State Councilor and was President of the National Advisory Commission on Human Rights CNCDH (Commission nationale consultative des droits de l'homme) between 1984 and 1988 . From 1988 until she was succeeded by Dominique Le Vert, she served as Chair of the Public Works Department at the Council of State (Section des travaux publics du Conseil d'État français) .

Web links

• Entry on the homepage of the National Assembly
• Entry in the Munzinger archive (online version)