Rama Yade

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Rama Yade (2010)

Rama Yade (actually Ramatoulaye Yade-Zimet ; * December 13, 1976 in Dakar , Senegal as Mame Ramatoulaye Yade ) is a French politician . From 2007 to 2010 she was in the government, initially as State Secretary responsible for foreign affairs and human rights, after a cabinet reshuffle in June 2009 she became State Secretary for Sport. An announced candidacy for the French presidential elections in 2017 failed in the preliminary stages.

Life

Rama Yade was born in 1976 in Dakar as the daughter of a senior advisor to Senegalese President Léopold Sédar Senghor and a professor. The family moved to Colombes in France because of his father's activity in the diplomatic service when Yade was eleven years old. After her parents separated and her father returned to Senegal, she stayed with her mother and three sisters in the suburb where she grew up. Although she was a Muslim, she went to a Catholic school, where she received her Baccalauréat in 1994(Abitur) passed. She received French citizenship in 1997 and gave up Senegalese. She then studied at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris (Sciences Po), from which she received her diploma in 2000.

In 2002 she successfully passed the selection process for employment in the administration of the French Senate . Her work for the Senate Administration was interrupted from 2005 to 2006 by a position as deputy program director, later communication director of the Senate television station "Public Sénat".

Rama Yade in 2007

Her political career began while she was working in the Senate administration: in 2005 she joined the conservative Union pour un mouvement populaire (UMP). According to Yade, the reason for this was solely the charisma and positions of Nicolas Sarkozy ; otherwise she would not have identified with the values ​​of the political right and would have voted for Christiane Taubira from the left-liberal PRG in the 2002 presidential election . Her husband, however, the historian Joseph Zimet, was a member of the Parti socialiste . In the UMP she was promoted and rose in March 2006 to national party secretary for the Francophonie . On January 14, 2007, she gave a speech at a party congress in Versailles, which impressed the then party leader Nicolas Sarkozy, who later named her as one of the spokespersons for the UMP in his presidential campaign .

After Sarkozy's election victory, Yade was appointed State Secretary to Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner on June 19, 2007, with special responsibility for human rights. With clear statements on human rights violations, she repeatedly embarrassed Kouchner and Sarkozy to state guests, such as the Libyan head of state Muammar al-Gaddafi . This is seen as the reason for her transfer to the post of State Secretary for Sport in the course of a cabinet reshuffle in June 2009. Then she was assigned to Roselyne Bachelot , Minister for Health, Youth and Sport. In the regional election in March 2010, Yade was also elected to the regional council of the capital region Île-de-France for the UMP .

In the course of another cabinet reshuffle, Rama Yade lost her post as State Secretary in the government of the new Prime Minister François Fillon in November 2010 . A month later she joined the Parti radical valoisien , a small party that had previously been associated with the UMP, but after the dismissal of its chairman Jean-Louis Borloo as environment minister, distanced itself from the mother party and finally separated from the UMP entirely in 2011. From January to June 2011, Yade was France's representative at UNESCO . In October 2011 she was elected deputy chairman of the Parti radical. From 2012, this was part of the party alliance Union des démocrates et indépendants (UDI). In June 2014, she applied to succeed Borloo as chairman of the Parti radical, but was defeated by Laurent Hénart .

Because of her public deliberations about running for the presidential election, she was expelled from the Parti radical in September 2015. On April 21, 2016, she announced her candidacy for the 2017 presidential election . She did not want to participate in the primary elections of the Republicans (successor party of the UMP), but called for an independent alliance under the title La France qui ose (in German: "France that dares to do something"). Her candidacy failed because she was only able to raise 353 of the 500 signatures required by public officials (parrainages) . For the parliamentary election in June 2017, she ran under the label Divers droite in the 1st constituency of the Loir-et-Cher department and was eliminated with 5.65% of the vote.

Web links

Commons : Rama Yade  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b cf. Gerd Kröncke in Süddeutsche Zeitung No. 140, June 21, 2007; page 4
  2. ↑ Rama Yade l'insaisissable. In: Le Point , July 25, 2007, archive January 31, 2008
  3. ^ So Spiegel-Online , June 23, 2009
  4. ↑ focus.de: New cabinet should pave the way for Sarkozy's re-election
  5. ↑ [1]
  6. ↑ Rama Yade est candidate à l'élection présidentielle . In: Le Monde.fr . ISSN  1950-6244 ( lemonde.fr [accessed April 21, 2016]).
  7. ↑ Fiona Zublin: She Will not Be President, But She's On A Mission To Change France. In: Ozy.com . April 18, 2017, accessed August 1, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Yade, Rama
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Yade cinnamon, ramatoulaye; Yade, Mame Ramatoulaye (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French politician
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Dakar , Senegal