Roger Karoutchi
Roger Karoutchi (born August 26, 1951 in Casablanca , Morocco ) is a French politician ( RPR , UMP , LR ). He was a member of the French Senate from 1999 to 2007 and has been a member of the French Senate again since 2011. From 1997 to 1999 he was a member of the European Parliament ; from 2007 to 2009 Karoutchi was State Secretary to the Prime Minister for Relations with Parliament.
Life
Karoutchi was born in Casablanca in what was then the French protectorate of Morocco . He comes from a Sephardic family. After finishing school, Karoutchi studied history and education at the Institut d'études politiques d'Aix-en-Provence . He then worked as a history teacher from 1975, first in Goussainville and then in Paris .
In January 2009, Karoutchi made his homosexuality public in a television interview in anticipation of his autobiography Mes quatre Vérités , which appeared a few days later . In the 1970s, homosexuals in the French right-wing parties had a hard time, which is why he entered into a "marriage of convenience" with a good friend.
Political party
He has been politically active since he was sixteen. He became a member of the Gaullist Union des démocrates pour la République (UDR), from which the Rassemblement pour la République (RPR) emerged in 1976 . From 1981 to 1985 he was the national delegate of the RPR for youth issues. From 1998 he was a member of the national secretariat (party presidency) of the RPR. This merged into the Union pour un mouvement populaire (UMP) in 2002 , whose general delegate for the Île-de-France and secretary in the department of Hauts-de-Seine was Karoutchi. From January 2013 to June 2014 Karoutchi was Vice Chairman of the UMP. The party Les Républicains emerged from this in 2015 . Since November 2016, Karoutchi has been deputy chairman of the candidate selection committee of the Républicains.
National politics
From 1986 he was on the staff of the Minister of Labor, Philippe Séguin . When Séguin was President of the National Assembly from 1993 to 1997, Karoutchi worked as its office manager. In succession to Charles Pasqua , he was Senator for the Hauts-de-Seine department from 1999 to 2007 .
Karoutchi was heavily involved in Nicolas Sarkozy's 2007 presidential campaign ; he has a close personal friendship with Sarkozy. After his election victory, Karoutchi was State Secretary for Relations with Parliament in the Fillon I and Fillon II Cabinets from May 2007 to June 2009 . In September 2011 he was re-elected to the French Senate. Since 2014 he has been chairman of the Senate delegation for prospective (future research).
Regional and local politics
From 1989 to 1995 and again from 2001 to 2008 Karoutchi was a member of the municipal council of the city of Nanterre near Paris, in between the municipal council of Boulogne-Billancourt . From 1992 to 2015 he was a member of the regional council of Île-de-France , from 1994 to 1998 he was its vice-president. From 1998 to 2002 he was chairman of the RPR parliamentary group, then until 2010 chairman of the Majorité presidential parliamentary group (UMP and allies) in the regional council of Île-de-France. From 2008 to 2012 Karoutchi was Deputy Mayor of Villeneuve-la-Garenne , a western suburb of Paris.
European Parliament and OECD
In October 1997 Karoutchi moved up to the European Parliament , where he belonged to the Union for Europe group. In the European elections of 1999 he was re-elected and the closed EPP-ED Group on but put in December 1999, resigned his seat to take to his seat in the French Senate.
From July 2009 to August 2011 he was Permanent Representative of France to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
Works
- Jean Zay: 1904-1944; Ministre de l'Instruction du Front Populaire; resistant, martyr . Ramsay, Paris 2006. ISBN 978-2-84114-825-7
- Le Parlement, a quoi ça sert? Ellipses, Paris 2007. ISBN 978-2-7298-3764-8
- Mes quatre Vérités . Flammarion, Paris 2009. ISBN 978-2-08-122412-4
Web links
- Roger Karoutchi's website
- French Senate: Roger Karoutchi
- Entry on Roger Karoutchi in the Members' database of the European Parliament
Individual evidence
- ↑ Le ministre Roger Karoutchi révèle son homosexualité. Le Parisien , accessed March 6, 2009 .
- ↑ Roger Karoutchi évoque la difficulté d'être un responsable politique à droite homosexuel. In: e-llico.com , August 26, 2015.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Karoutchi, Roger |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French politician (RPR, UMP, LR), member of the Senate, MEP |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 26, 1951 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Casablanca , Morocco |