Renaud Dutreil

Renaud Dutreil (born June 12, 1960 in Chambéry ) is a former French politician ( UDF , UMP ). He was Minister for Public Service (2004–05) and for Entrepreneurship, Commerce, Crafts and Professions (2005–07).

Life and political career

Dutreil began studying at the École normal supérieure in 1981 and graduated with a maîtrise in linguistics and literature and a DEA in art sociology. He then received a diploma from the Institut d'études politiques de Paris (Sciences Po) and then graduated from the École nationale d'administration (ENA) until 1989 . From 1989 to 1993 he worked at the Conseil d'État (Council of State).

From 1994 to 2002 he was a member of the civil union pour la démocratie française (UDF) for the Aisne department in the National Assembly ; from 1994 to 2006 he was also a member of the General Council of the Aisne department. After the defeat of the center-right parties in the 1997 general election, Dutreil and the Mayor of Valence , Patrick Labaune of the Gaullist RPR , published a call for the UDF and RPR to unite. Dutreil belonged to the Démocratie Liberale party , which was initially part of the UDF, but separated from it in May 1998. In December 1998, however, he returned to the UDF. As a staunch opponent, he attracted public attention in 1998 during the debate about the adoption of the Civil Solidarity Pact (PACS) law . He described the registered partnership , which is open to both same-sex and opposite-sex couples, as “a kind of transgenic corn in the field of human relationships”.

On the occasion of the presidential election in 2002 , Dutreil moved from the UDF to the Union pour un mouvement populaire (UMP), which supported the re-election of Jacques Chirac . Dutreil was the first chairman of the UMP until he was replaced by Alain Juppé in November 2002 . From 2002 to 2004 he was State Secretary for Entrepreneurship, Trade, Crafts, Liberal Professions and Consumer Affairs in the Raffarin I and II cabinets . The law of August 6, 2003 to simplify the creation of a business became known as Loi Dutreil . From March 2004 to May 2005 he held the post of Minister for Public Service and State Reform in the Raffarin III cabinet . From June 2005 to May 2007 he was Minister for Entrepreneurship, Trade, Crafts and Liberal Professions in the de Villepin government .

In January 2006, Dutreil was elected general secretary of the Parti radical valoisien , a small party associated with the UMP. In the 2007 parliamentary elections, he won the mandate in the constituency of Reims ( Marne department ). He was then deputy chairman of the UMP parliamentary group in the National Assembly. In March 2008 he ran as the UMP candidate for mayoral election in Reims. However, he only came in third place with 23% of the vote, while his party rival Catherine Vautrin , who had not received the UMP nomination and ran as an Independent, received 25.2% in the first ballot. Ultimately, the split in the bourgeois camp led to the socialist Adeline Hazan being elected mayor.

In August 2008, Dutreil retired from politics. He then managed the North American subsidiary of the luxury goods company LVMH (Louis Vuitton - Moët Hennessy) until 2012 . He was also on the advisory boards of The New School and Parsons School of Design in New York. For the 2017 presidential election , he was the first former member of the Chirac government to declare his support for Emmanuel Macron . Since July 2017, Dutreil has headed a private equity fund of the Swiss private bank Mirabaud .

Individual evidence

1. ^ A Valence, le RPR et l'UDF publient leurs bans. In: Liberation , 23 August 1997.
2. ↑ Renaud Dutreil a quitté le groupe Democratie libérale pour retourner au groupe UDF. In: Le Monde , December 4, 1998.
3. ^ Caroline Fourest, Fiammetta Venner: Les anti-PaCS, ou, La dernière croisade homophobe. Prochoix, 1999, p. 64. Original quote: C'est une sorte de maïs transgénique en matière de relation humaine.
4. ^ Sophie Lécluse, Claire Bader: Exclusif: Renaud Dutreil quitte en catimini LVMH. In: Capital , September 28, 2012.
5. ↑ Mirabaud Asset Management enters the private equity sector. Mirabaud, July 4, 2017.