Bruno Mégret

Biography

Origin

Bruno André Alexandre Mégret , born the April 4th 1949 with Paris, is the son of a senior official, Jacques Mégret, and of Colette Constantinides. It is the elder one of a family of 4 children of which he is the only boy.

In Brussels, where his/her father is in station at the European Communities, Bruno Mégret is provided education for at the European school. Of return to Paris, he is boarder at the institute catholic Bossuet and registered in second with the Louis-the-Large college before being allowed there in preparatory class. Received to the Polytechnic school in 1969, it leaves in the “boot” and integrates there the body of the Bridges and Chaussées.

Graduate of the Institute of the High studies of the National defense, captain of reserve of the armor-plated Weapon of Cavalry, it was raises School of cavalry of Saumur (training course commando with Quellern, two months in garrison in Germany with Offenburg). He then spent eight month to Laon as second lieutenant to the 6th regiment of cuirassiers.

In 1974, its studies in France finished, it leaves, provided with a purse, for the the United States where it spends one year to the university of Berkeley, in California. It returns from there with a diploma of Master off Science.

Operations manager with the General police station in the Plan in 1975 and 1976, it is affected with town and country planning during the preparation of the Life plan.

Named with the departmental management of the equipment of the the Essonne in 1977, it is then adviser technical with the cabinet of the Ministre for the Co-operation of 1979 with 1981, then assistant editor of the infrastructures and transport to the prefecture of the area Île-de-France until in 1986. Put of availability, it joined its body of origin two years later, after its defeat with the legislative elections. Until June 1989, where he is elected European Député, he is operations manager at the general advice of the Highways Departments.

Political course

As of 1975, it adheres to the Club of the Clock, a think tank created by senior officials where the intellectual response with socialism is worked out, then enters to the RPR via the networks of Charles Pasqua and becomes almost immediately member of the central committee. In 1981, when François Mitterrand is elected, it is presented to the legislative elections in Yvelines against Michel Rocard which it puts in ballot. Pressed to act more effectively for its ideas, it leaves the party and founds in January 1982 the Comités of republican action, a club of which there remains the president until in 1988. With the BUS and many clubs and associations, it created the CODAR, on the initiative which the first will be held and second General states of the opposition in 1984 and 1985.

National right-hand side

In 1986, benefitting from the poll to proportional, Jean-Marie Le Pen, president of the National front, decides to create the national Rassemblement in order to open its party with other movements. Bruno Mégret and the Committees of republican action are combined on this occasion with the National front. He is then elected appointed of Isere and will become European Député in 1989.

In 1987, it adheres to the National front and Jean-Marie Le Pen names it directing its presidential campaign. In 1988, it is presented in the 10th district of the Rhone delta (Gardanne), where it obtains 26% of the votes to the first turn and 44% with the second. Its influence does not cease growing within the FN where it reveals its talents of organizer and strategist, becoming thus a rival for Jean-Pierre Stirbois, the general secretary. This last dies in an car accident and will be replaced by Carl Lang, then by Bruno Gollnisch.

In October 1988, it is named Acting general of the National front by Jean-Marie Le Pen. It is in charge with the formation, the communication, propaganda, the studies, and the manifestations of the National movement. In June 1989, he is elected with the the European Parliament where he is Member of the political Commission and the Commission economy. Since October 1990, it is, in addition, the leader of the National front in the area Provence-Alp-Coast of Azure. It is him which leads the list to the regional elections in the Rhone delta and, in March 1992, it is elected regional adviser of the area Provence-Alp-Coast of Azure.

Bruno Mégret asserts itself like number two of the National front and forging mill his image. Thus, it founds in 1989 the review Identité which will organize and format the ideological national line corpus. It also attacks the question taboos immigration and proposes " Fifty Measurements to regulate the problem of the immigration" who will cause much agitation in the media and within the political community.

Candidate with the legislative elections of March 1993 in the district of Marignane, it comes very close to election with 49,5% of the voices to the second turn. It is in December 1993 that it chooses Vitrolles as not fall. For the European elections of June 1994, it is placed in second position on the list led by Jean-Marie Le Pen and is re-elected at the Parliament of Strasbourg.

In June 1995, candidate with the municipal election of Vitrolles in the Rhone delta, it obtains 43% of the votes to the first turn, the score record of the National front in the cities of more than 30.000 inhabitants and fails of accuracy the second turn in front of the list led by Jean-Jacques Anglade.

He marries Catherine Rascovsky, of Russian origin and Jewish, which replaces it as candidate with the town hall of Vitrolles because he is struck of Inéligibilité for one year for non-observance of the provisions of financing of the countryside. She is elected with 46,70% of the voices to the 1st turn and 52,48% with the second.

In 1995, Bruno Mégret creates a daily newspaper entitled the French published by the Carnix company. He was shouldered, in the creation of this company by Alef Bank (ready of 1,9 franc million without guarantee), subsidiary of Alef Saudi Bank, whose French establishments are directed by a Syrian: Jamal Radwan . Alef Bank manages the financial interests of part of the Saoudi royal family like those of the emir of the Qatar. Bruno Mégret is related to Alef Bank by his brother-in-law, Paul Loiseau.

In 1996, it publishes the national Alternative , work in which it tries to show that a political real alternative is possibe in France where, according to him, the national feeling does not cease gaining ground. The following year, it makes appear the Third way , a work in which it defines the principles of another economic policy and social combining the requirements of freedom and the regulation for redynamiser our economy while controlling universalization within the framework of a European economic patriotism.

February 17th, 1997, Bruno Mégret declares, during a television program on France 2, “that there are differences between the races”. He for that is condemned, on November 25th, 1998, to pour 10.000 F of damages to the Union of the Jewish students of France (UEJF), which had gone civil part.

In 1998, it makes appear a sixth work, New Europe . Hostile with construction of Brussels but favorable to independent and powerful Europe, he pleads for Europe of the nations which would allow the States which compose it, and France in particular, to return on the scene of the history.

Scission with the National front

Regarded from now on as a rival embarrassing by the direction of the National front, Bruno Mégret will be the subject of attacks more and more sharp. The crisis which bursts the December 5th 1998 within the party and in which it is implied quickly will cause its revocation of the general delegation of the party then her exclusion. These events make lose with the National front a majority of frameworks and elected officials, who, secessionist by force or reason, create, at the time of a Congress with Marignane, the 23 and January 24th 1999, the “Face national national-Movement”, and carry Bruno Mégret to the presidency. The party is renamed “National movement”, in May, following an legal action of Jean-Marie Le Pen then is transformed formally into National republican movement (MNR) in September.

National republican movement

With the European elections which take place the same year, the list led by Bruno Mégret under the label “National movement” obtains a little more than 3% of the voices and thus does not have any deputy since its score is lower than the bar of the 5% required to have elected officials. On its side, the list led by Jean-Marie Le Pen crosses this bar with 5,69% painfully, obtaining 5 seats.

The April 21st 2002, Bruno Mégret, who is candidate with the presidential election, collects 2,34% of the votes. With the second turn, it invites to vote for Jean-Marie Le Pen. Its account of countryside will be invalidated and its party will have serious problems.

Bruno Mégret appears before September 2006 at the sides of his wife before the Magistrates' court of Marseilles. Indeed, Catherine Mégret had sent as a mayor of Vitrolles a mail to her colleagues mayors of France to sponsor the candidature of her husband for the presidential election of 2002. According to Bruno Mégret, the financing of this sending was taken charges some by error by the town hall and spontaneously refunded by the interested party. The judges did not see it thus and condemned it in first authority and call.

A new work of Bruno Mégret is published in the autumn 2006 pennies the title the Other Scenario . Noting that Europe of Brussels does not bring anything to Europeans, if not an addition of regulations meddle and deads, he preaches Europe power which would place the European people at the first rank in the world competition and which France could play an important role.

The December 20th 2006, Mégret announced that it would not present to the presidential 2007, but would support Jean-Marie Le Pen at the time of a common press conference with this one. This support lay within the scope of the patriotic Union suggested by the president of the National front.

With the first turn of the legislative elections of 2007, Bruno Mégret obtains 2,03% of the voices in the twelfth district of the Rhone delta. The MNR makes a very weak score with the national plan and does not cross the threshold giving access public finance parties. The MNR does not have any more national elected officials. It still has however city council men and mayors.

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