Pierre-René Lemas

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Pierre-René Lemas

Pierre-René Lemas (born February 23, 1951 in Algiers , then the French department of Alger, now Algeria ) is a high-ranking French civil servant and, until April 2014, as Secretary General ( secrétaire général ), head of the Élysée Palace , the authority of the French President . With the government reshuffle he was succeeded by Jean-Pierre Jouyet .

Life

Pierre-René Lemas, son of a pied noir , studied at the Institut d'études politiques in Paris and at the École nationale d'administration (ENA). At the ENA he belonged to the same final year as François Hollande ( Voltaire 1980). Lemas was first sub-prefect in the Dordogne department , then in the Val-de-Marne department . In 1983 he joined the cabinet of the then Interior Minister Gaston Defferre , where, as later in the cabinet of Pierre Joxe , he was primarily concerned with decentralization . From 1986 Lemas then worked in a variety of functions in different ministries, interrupted by a two-year activity as prefect in the Aisne department (1992-1994). Lemas gradually rose in the hierarchy.

From 2000 he was Director General for Administration in the Ministry of the Interior. He was then appointed prefect of Corsica by the then Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy , where he was supposed to calm the heated political mood between separatists and republicans after a rejected referendum on extended autonomy rights in the region. However, he only succeeded to a limited extent, which led to his transfer to Lorraine in the same position . There he was recalled in 2007, a few days after the rights had lost two seats in the region's parliamentary elections.

Lemas briefly took over the management of the government newspapers. He then moved to Paris Local Government as General Director of the Paris Habitat social housing association .

In November 2011, at the request of François Hollande, Lemas became head of cabinet of the new President of the French Senate , Jean-Pierre Bel . On May 15, 2012 he was appointed Secretary General of the Cabinet of the French President by François Hollande. This function is similar to that of the head of the Federal Chancellery in Germany.

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Individual evidence

  1. Article on lepoint.fr from May 15, 2012 (French, with photo) , accessed on May 17, 2012