Olivier Faure

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Olivier Faure, February 2012

Olivier Faure (born August 18, 1968 in La Tronche ) is a French politician of the Parti Socialiste (PS). Since December 2016 he has been chairman of the Nouvelle Gauche parliamentary group (until June 2017 Socialiste, écologiste et républicain ) in the French National Assembly , which mainly includes the MPs of the PS. He has been First Secretary of the PS since April 7, 2018.

Life

Olivier Faure was born in the Isère department and grew up in La Réunion and later in Saran . He obtained his Abitur in Orléans . At the university there , he studied law and at the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne Political Science . He completed both studies with a diploma .

Faure initially worked for the President of the National Assembly's Constitutional, Legal and Administrative Committee, Gérard Gouzes. He then worked briefly in the private sector in Grenoble , as an employee in the management of a company with around 150 employees, which was owned by the employees themselves. His subsequent professional activities were all in a political context.

Political career

Olivier Faure joined the Parti Socialiste at the age of 16. In the early 1990s he was president of the jeunes rocardiens , which were organized around Michel Rocard . Manuel Valls moved in this environment at the time ; at the same time Faure lived in a shared apartment with Benoît Hamon during this time .

In 1997 Faure became a member of Martine Aubry's cabinet in her former role as Minister of Labor in the Jospin government . After Aubry moved to Lille as mayor , Faure became deputy office manager of the PS's then First Secretary, François Hollande . From 2007 he was general secretary of the Parti Socialiste group in the National Assembly under the chairmanship of Jean-Marc Ayrault . In 2012 he was his advisor for a short time as Prime Minister, but resigned this position after his election to the National Assembly.

In François Hollande's presidential campaign , Faure was responsible for communications both during the pre-election campaign and during the actual election campaign. After the 2012 election, Faure became a member of the party leadership of the Parti Socialiste, initially as secretary for communications, from 2014 as one of the three speakers ( porte-parole ; this function is comparable to that of general secretary in German parties).

Faure ran for a political mandate for the first time in 1994, as a candidate for the General Council of the Loiret Department , but failed. In 2007 he failed with his first candidacy for the National Assembly for the Seine-et-Marne department . From 2008 he was a member of the commune council of Champs-sur-Marne and the council of the Val Maubuée commune ; he resigned these functions after his election to the National Assembly.

In 2012 Faure was elected to the National Assembly in a newly created constituency of Seine-et-Marne. There he was one of the vice-presidents of the socialist group. Following the appointment of the previous parliamentary group leader, Bruno Le Roux, as interior minister in the Cazeneuve government in December 2016, Faure was elected as the new parliamentary group leader with a narrow majority against Guillaume Bachelay . He is a member of the Finance, Economic and Budgetary Control Committee of the National Assembly.

In the 2017 election , he was re-elected to the National Assembly despite the devastating defeat of the Parti Socialiste. After the election he was confirmed as parliamentary group leader of the Nouvelle Gauche parliamentary group.

As of July 2017, Faure was a member of the interim collegial leadership of the PS, which was supposed to organize the transition after the defeats in the 2017 elections.

In January 2018 Faure announced that he would apply to be chairman ( premier secrétaire ) of the Parti Socialiste. In the vote on the political programs in the run-up to the PS party congress, the text submitted by Faure as the first signatory received 48.6 percent of the vote. Since the first signer of the text in second place, Stéphane Le Foll , decided not to run for first secretary, Faure was the only candidate in the primary election on March 29, in which he was elected with 86 percent of the vote. He took office on April 7, 2018.

Political positioning

Faure has worked with three influential figures from the Parti Socialiste, all of whom belong to the left-centrist wing of the party: Martine Aubry , François Hollande and Jean-Marc Ayrault . He is primarily regarded as an Ayraultiste , but at the end of November 2016 he was the only member of the narrow party leadership to take part in a conference organized by Martine Aubry, which was also attended by numerous opponents of Hollande's policy and in particular von Valls. His election as parliamentary group chairman was seen as a defeat for Manuel Valls, who ousted Ayrault at the head of government in 2014.

In the National Assembly, Faure basically supported the course of the Ayrault and Valls governments, which was particularly controversial in economic policy. In the consultation on the reform of the labor legislation in spring 2016, for which there was no majority in the National Assembly, Faure tried to find a compromise, but this failed due to resistance from Valls; the law was finally put into effect through a special constitutional regulation without the consent of parliament.

At the end of December 2015, Faure spoke out against the Valls government's planned revocation of French citizenship for terrorists and in February 2016 voted in the National Assembly with 91 other socialist MPs against the law, which was finally withdrawn by the government.

Others

Faure is the author of a comic book, Ségo, François, Papa et moi . In the 2007 published book provides Faure the presidential election 2007 campaign of Segolene Royal is.

Web links

Commons : Olivier Faure  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Olivier Faure: Biography. In: Le blog d'Olivier Faure. Retrieved December 22, 2016 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e Aurore Malval: Olivier Faure a fait ses premières armes dans l'agglo. In: La République du Center (online). September 13, 2012, accessed December 22, 2016 (French).
  3. ↑ a b c d e Lilian Alemagna: Cinq choses à savoir sur Olivier Faure, nouveau patron des députés PS. In: Liberation (online). December 13, 2016, accessed December 22, 2016 (French).
  4. ^ A b Olivier Faure: Déclaration d'intérêts et d'activités. (PDF) (No longer available online.) La Haute Autorité pour la transparance de la vie publique, January 26, 2014, archived from the original on December 20, 2016 ; Retrieved December 22, 2016 (French). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hatvp.fr
  5. ↑ Matthieu Depriec: Le PS renouvelle ses équipes. In: L'Éxpress (online). July 19, 2012, accessed December 22, 2016 (French).
  6. ↑ Le député Olivier Faure devient porte-parole du Parti socialiste. In: Le Parisien (online). April 16, 2014, accessed December 22, 2016 (French).
  7. ↑ a b c Pierre Lepelletier: L'élection d'Olivier Faure à la tête des députés PS ne fait pas les affaires de Valls. In: Le Figaro (online). December 13, 2016, accessed December 22, 2016 (French).
  8. ↑ Résultats des élections législatives 2017: Seine-et-Marne (77) - 11ème circonscription. Ministère de l'Intérieur, 2017, accessed 10 January 2018 (French).
  9. ↑ Mathilde SIRAUD: Olivier Faure CONFORTE à la du groupe présidence PS à l'Assemblée. In: Le Figaro (online). June 22, 2017, accessed January 10, 2018 (French).
  10. ↑ Le Parti socialiste a désigné sa direction collégiale provisoire. In: Le Monde (online). July 8, 2017, accessed January 10, 2018 (French).
  11. ^ Marion Mourgue: Congrès PS: Olivier Faure entre dans la danse. In: Le Figaro (online). January 10, 2018, accessed January 10, 2018 (French).
  12. ↑ Astrid de Villaines: A Aubervilliers, les socialistes en congrès veulent "relever la tête". In: Le Figaro (online). April 7, 2018, accessed April 8, 2018 (French).
  13. ↑ Olivier Faure is the new leader of the Socialists. In: Spiegel online. April 7, 2018, accessed April 8, 2018 .
  14. ↑ Martine Aubry invite la gauche rose-rouge-verte à se regrouper samedi à Bondy. In: France3 Nord-Pas-de-Calais. November 25, 2016, accessed December 22, 2016 (French).
  15. ↑ L'argumentaire en cinq points d'Olivier Faure, porte-parole du PS, contre la déchéance de nationalité. In: Le Lab Europe December 1 , 2015, accessed December 22, 2016 (French).
  16. ^ Caroline Vigoureux: Le soir ou l'Assemblée a voté la déchéance de nationalité. In: L'Opinion. February 9, 2016, accessed December 22, 2016 (French).
personal data
SURNAME Faure, Olivier
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French politician
DATE OF BIRTH 18th August 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH La Tronche