Rachida Dati

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Rachida Dati (2016)

Rachida Dati (pronunciation: [ˈʁaʃida daˈti] ; born November 27, 1965 in Saint-Rémy , Saône-et-Loire department ) is a French politician of the Les Républicains party . In the 2007 presidential election campaign she was spokeswoman for the candidate Nicolas Sarkozy , who was Justice Minister in the government of François Fillon from 2007 to 2009 . From 2009 to 2019 she was a member of the European Parliament .

Life

Origin and education

Rachida Dati grew up as the second oldest of eleven children of a Moroccan bricklayer and an Algerian mother in a social housing estate in Chalon-sur-Saône , the largest city in the Saône-et-Loire department. There she went to a private Catholic school run by the Carmelite Order . To support the family, she accompanied her mother as a cleaner, then she worked as an auxiliary nurse at night while she prepared for the Baccalauréat (Abitur).

In 1987 she met Albin Chalandon, then Minister of Justice, at a reception in the Algerian embassy . To finance her economics studies, he got her a job as an accountant at Elf Aquitaine , a state-owned company at the time, which he had headed as general manager from 1977–1983. She received her master's degree in public law after studying for a year because she was able to assert her professional experience.

Professional career

After completing her studies, Rachida Dati first worked in auditing at the Matra Group from 1990, and in 1993 for a year in London at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), also in the auditing department there. From 1994 she worked in a business management position within the urban development department of the French water company Lyonnaise des Eaux and as an advisor to the legal department of the French Ministry of Education.

On the advice of Simone Veil , she trained at France's national college for judges ( École nationale de la magistrature ) from 1997 to 1999 and then worked for the public prosecutor in Évry .

Political career

In 2002, Rachida Dati became an employee in the office of then Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, who made her a consultant on immigration issues. In 2006 she joined his UMP party. When Sarkozy announced his presidential candidacy in January 2007, he named her spokeswoman for his election campaign. This appointment was made with the support of Sarkozy's wife at the time, Cécilia Ciganer-Albéniz , who was close friends with Dati.

Rachida Dati (2007)

After Sarkozy's election victory, Dati became Minister of Justice. At that time, she had only five years of legal professional experience as an examining magistrate and deputy public prosecutor. Dati was the first person of Arab origin in France to hold a ministerial post; and this in a right- wing government:

“La gauche en rêvait, mais c'est la droite qui l'a fait! - "The left dreamed of it, but the right did it!" "

- Frédéric Gerschel

On July 6, 2007, Dati's head of cabinet Michel Dobkine resigned after seven weeks in office for personal reasons, and four days later three other subordinates left their cabinet. In all, seven people left the cabinet during the first few months. Dati was dismissed from the government in June 2009 following a cabinet reshuffle.

After the 2009 European elections , Dati was a MEP in the Group of the European People's Party . She was a member of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs and a delegate for relations with the United States for the legislature until 2014 . From 2009 to 2011 she was a member of the special committee on the financial, economic and social crisis. After her re-election in 2014 , she sat on the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs until she left the European Parliament in 2019 , was a delegate for relations with the Mashreq countries and in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union for the Mediterranean .

Rachida Dati has been the mayor of the 7th arrondissement of Paris since 2008 . She applied for the candidacy of the civic camp for the office of Mayoress of Paris from 2014, but withdrew in April 2013 in favor of Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet . She had already been chosen as a candidate for the UMP "by the media and the system". In 2020 she is the LR candidate for the mayor of Paris.

Personal

On January 2, 2009, Dati gave birth to their daughter. The fact that she did not want to mention her father's name caused a particular stir. "My private life is complicated," said Dati, who has been divorced since 1992.

Because she, as a Moroccan citizen, has an illegitimate daughter, Adil Fathi, the deputy prosecutor of King Mohammed VI , opened the news . 2012 in Morocco a preliminary investigation against her. The Moroccan Criminal Code provides for imprisonment from one month to one year for "unlawful sexual intercourse between people of different sex who are not united by marriage".

From October 2012, the question of who the father was was again discussed in the media. In December 2012, the civil court of Versailles ordered a paternity test on the entrepreneur and casino owner Dominique Desseigne at the instigation of DATI . He refused the paternity test, whereupon the court sentenced him on October 7, 2014 to pay alimony for the child in the amount of 2500 euros per month.

literature

Works

Biographies

Movies

  • Taly Jaoui, Antoine Vitkine: Rachida Dati, the rise and fall of an icon. TV (45 '). 2009.

Web links

Commons : Rachida Dati  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Stefan Simons: Instrument of Power . In: Der Spiegel . No. 40 , 2007 ( online ).
  2. ↑ Cinderella from the Banlieue . In: Rheinischer Merkur , December 6, 2007.
  3. ↑ a b Frédéric Gerschel: Une beurette devient ministre de la Justice. Rachida Dati, une ministre très symbolique . Aujourd'hui en France, May 19, 2007.
  4. ↑ Setback for Sarkozy: Rachida Dati's head of cabinet leaves . In: Liechtensteiner Volksblatt , online edition on July 7, 2007. Accessed on November 6, 2012
  5. ↑ Rachida Dati, des réformes et des critiques . Liberation .fr, June 23, 2009.
  6. ↑ Final election results for the 2009 European elections in France (PDF; 395 kB).
  7. ↑ a b Entry on Rachida Dati in the European Parliament 's database of representatives , accessed on November 7, 2012
  8. ^ Website of the European Parliament
  9. ↑ Sophie de Ravinel: Hidalgo, Dati, Jouanno: des femmes à l'assaut de Paris. Le Figaro (online), September 4, 2012, accessed September 20, 2012 (French).
  10. ↑ Rachida Dati drops out of Paris mayor race. In: The Telegraph. April 23, 2013, accessed April 24, 2013 .
  11. ↑ Baby for Justice Minister Dati - father remains a secret . Spiegel Online , January 2, 2009.
  12. ^ Taz: Unlawful sexual intercourse from October 3, 2012, accessed on October 7, 2012
  13. ↑ WAZ: October 4, 2012
  14. ↑ Frankfurter Rundschau November 8, 2012: Sex, Lies and Politics
  15. ↑ Rachida Dati forces millionaire to take paternity test. Die Welt, December 4, 2012, accessed January 1, 2013 .
  16. ↑ https://www.bazonline.ch/panorama/haben/ex-ministerin-erstreit-sich-unterhaltslösungen/story/20140398 Ex-minister fights for maintenance payments
personal data
SURNAME Dati, Rachida
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French politician, MEP
DATE OF BIRTH November 27, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint-Rémy (Saône-et-Loire)