Alain Carignon

Alain Carignon , born the February 23rd 1949 with Vizille, is a Politician French. Former minister and former mayor of Grenoble. He was condemned to five years of Prison and to five years of Inéligibilité in a business of bribe in 1996.

He is president of the UMP for the Isere since 2003.

Career

Beginnings in policy

Graduate of the Institute of administration of the companies of Grenoble, it begins his career with the cabinet of the mediator, then at the commission industry of the Economic and Social Council. He enters to the General advice of the Isere and becomes operations manager near Jerome Monod, general secretary of the RPR.
Il is made known by carrying the town hall of Grenoble in 1983, bastion socialist of long time vis-a-vis Hubert Dubedout. It becomes then appointed European in 1984 and chair general advice of the Isere in 1985. It belongs to the twelve young renovating deputies “ ” RPR and UDF (with in particular François Léotard, Michel Noir and Philippe Seguin), which wishes évincer Valery Giscard d'Estaing and Jacques Chirac.
Anecdotiquement, one will remember the meticulousness with which Alain Carignon always looked after his public image. For example, in 1979, at the time of an autumnal voyage at sea whose account in at the time has surprised more than one. In order to reinforce this communication, it engages in 1983 Philippe Langenieux-Villard, joint author in 1985 of a theory on art and the manner of using the rumor as regards policy.

Ministerial career

In 1986, it gains the legislative in the district of its city and is then called by Jacques Chirac in the first government of cohabitation, at the post of minister delegated to the Environment.
Réélu appointed in 1988, it resigns of this mandate due to office plurality of mandates. At the time of the second government of Cohabitation, in 1993, the new Prime Minister Edouard Balladur appoints it Minister of Transport, posts of which it must resign the following year because of a business of bribe, for which it was condemned to five years of Prison, including four farms, and to five years of Inéligibilité in 1996.

Dauphine business News

February 9th, 1994 the judge Philippe Courroye opens information against X for Abuse of corporate asset and Recel. The business in question relates to the newspapers News and Dauphiné News of Grenoble, newspapers launched a few weeks before the municipal elections of 1989 and which are in favor of the Municipal council in place. In March 1989 Alain Carignon is re-elected mayor of Grenoble and the newspapers disappear leaving a liability from 10 franc million. The Lyons of water, which has just gained, via one of its subsidiary companies, the management of water of Grenoble lately privatized, enters then the capital of the press company, and although this one does not have any more an activity, it sponges the debts of them.

July 19th, 1994 Alain Carignon announces his resignation of its post of minister of the Communication of the government to be able to be put in examination. He is condemned on July 9th, 1996 by a final adoption of the Criminal Court of the Court of Appeal of Lyon at 5 years of prison (including 1 year with deferment), 5 years of ineligibility, and 400 000 frank of fine for Corruption, Abuse of corporate asset (to have diverted with its 19 personal use; 073 150 francs, is 2 907 683 Euro S), and Subornation of witness S. It was released in May 1998.

In April 2007, neither the Web site of Alain Carignon nor his blog comprised reference to these judgments.

Political comeback

After having purged the integrality of its sorrow, it returns in policy 4 years later, as from 2002. In spite of the opposition of Alain Juppe, then in responsibility of found UMP, it finds initially its place in its political family at the time of the constitution of the UMP. While affirming not to have " no electoral ambition " and not to be " candidate for nothing " , it assumes the chairmanship of the UMP in Isere in 2003. The big number of UMP members on this district traditionally positioned on the right and who all the more are for the majority of them favorable to Alain Carignon will make that this last will be finally indicated candidate. The National Commission of nomination can only yield with the decisions of the militants and decides to invest in November Alain Carignon to represent UMP at the time of the legislative elections of 2007.

A long campaign opens then, marked on a side by sendings of mails, emails and the holding many public meetings per Alain Carignon with the presence of political personalities (Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres, Valerie Pécresse, Pierre Méhaignerie, etc) and other by a savage opposition to the return of Carignon in policy. Such an amount of in UMP, with for example Richard Cazenave, Mathieu Chamussy (city council man UMP of Grenoble) and even Herve Gerbi and his " group 35" , like Philippe de Longevialle, President of the Isere Modem and Stephan Gemmani, President d' Autrement, temporary of Philippe de Longevialle, MoDem candidate on the first district of Isere, that on the remainder of the political chessboard, the opposition to Alain Carignon will be set up. All the political parties present in Grenoble will condemn the return of Alain Carignon. Socialist party, UDF, MPF, ADES all are opposed to the “return old methods”. A www.alaincarignon.info site will open even whose objective is to recall to Isèrois the various corruption affairs in which Alain Carignon in the past was implied. One will also see appearing the day before the elections in the streets of Grenoble a massive posting campaign of anonymous stickers introducing Alain Carignon like the corrupted, the condamné.
During the program, Alain Carignon received publicly the support of Nicolas Sarkozy in April 2007 and that of Francois Fillon in May 2007. However this support is to be moderated by the absence of official declarations of Nicolas Sarkozy in favor of Alain Carignon other than the letters formatted and sent to all the UMP candidates for the legislative elections, with for only change between them the name of the candidate in entête.

Finally, at the end of this long countryside which seems to have exacerbated the voters of the 1st district, Alain Carignon finds itself in second position with resulting from the first turn of the legislative elections with 21,45% of the bulletins expressed, right in front of Richard Cazenave which thus loses his seat of deputy with 19,62% of the expressed bulletins, but largely behind Genevieve Fioraso, the candidate of the Socialist party, which obtains 32,02% of the expressed bulletins. Without much surprise, Alain Carignon is beaten with the second round by his adverse Socialist Genevieve Fioraso who obtains 63,03% of the votes compared with only 36,97% for the UMP candidate. It is a broad defeat which raises the question of the candidature of Alain Carignon for the municipal elections of 2008 in Grenoble. This last had indeed declared, a few days after the election of Nicolas Sarkozy, thus benefitting from the victory of this one with presidential, being candidate with the local elections for Grenoble in 2008. Only this defeat with legislative strongly mortgages an UMP victory in Grenoble at the time of the next electoral deadlines of 2008 if Alain Carignon is that which leads the UMP.

list Although having accepted the defeat, Alain Carignon refuses to be the person in charge about it. He indeed shows through his blog the libelous countryside in his connection which was carried out by the whole of the political community during the program. One can wonder whether the defeat comes from anti-Carignon propaganda, quite real, who was carried out during this program or then of the weight of the memory among voters? Because Alain Carignon already well before the countryside was a name which in the public opinion rimait with corruption. And in spite of the effect of the broad victory of Nicolas Sarkozy to the presidential election, in spite of the anchoring traditionally on the right of this district, that some estimated that it had been cut " on mesure" for Alain Carignon, this last did not succeed in being elected there, being made even largely beat by the socialist candidate.

This failure with legislative will encourage it to give up arising to the local elections of Grenoble on October 3rd, 2007, announces made on the Dauphiné Libéré but revealed as of the Blue on October 2nd by France Isere.

Catastrophe of Tchernobyl

May 11th, 1986, shortly after the Catastrophe of Tchernobyl, and whereas he was minister of environment, he declared with the Tv news Antenne 2 that The highest rates of France radioactivity are in lower part them thresholds from which there is danger, and largely in lower part: 5,10 or 100 times in lower part. , which was a lie, and which was the subject of a very sharp controversy, in particular because of the Conséquences of the catastrophe of Tchernobyl in France.

Mandates

Mayor of Grenoble between 1983 and 1995
Appointed of the Isere of 1986 with 1993
President of the Board of director of the Isere of 1985 to 1997 European
Appointed of 1984 with 1986
Acting minister near the Minister for the Equipment, Housing, Town and country planning and Transport, responsible for the Environment of the Government Jacques Chirac (2) (from March 20th, 1986 to May 12th, 1988)
Minister of Transport of the Government Edouard Balladur (from March 30th, 1993 to July 19th, 1994)

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