Dominique de Villepin

Dominique - Marie-François-Rene Galouzeau de Villepin , born the November 14th 1953 with Reduction (Morocco), is a diplomatic writer, and Politician French, French Prime Minister of the May 31st 2005 with the May 15th 2007. He is member of the Union for a popular movement (UMP).

Biography

Origins, studies and family

Born in Morocco, then French protectorate, Dominique Galouzeau de Villepin are wire of Xavier Galouzeau de Villepin, centrist senator then UMP, and of Yvonne Hétier, first adviser of administrative court. It passes the major part of its childhood abroad: in Africa, with the the United States, in Latin America and especially with the Venezuela. Galouzeau de Villepin are a family of middle-class, but are not members of the nobility, if it is not the " nobility of apparence". Honore Galouzeau, notary, married Marie de Villepin at the 18th century. Their back grandson François-Xavier, lawyer, will be made call Galouzeau de Villepin at the 19th century, and it had a many posterity.

In May 68, at fifteen years, Dominique de Villepin is the only striker of her school with Caracas. It returns to France, and continues its studies with Toulouse, initially with the private college Jesuit Caousou where it will obtain its vat (with the mention rather well) at the 16 years age, then with the faculty of Letters.

It enters then to the Institut of Political Studies of Paris, then with the National school of administration, from where it will leave in the promotion Voltaire, at the sides of Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres, François Holland and Ségolène Royal. It will finish 25e, its political adversaries of today finishing respectively 11th and 95e. It adheres in 1977 to the Rassemblement for the Republic.

It carries out its Military service in the Marine as officer on the aircraft carrier Clemenceau, before occupying its first station at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs.

At its exit of ENA, it starts in 1980 its career of diplomat as a secretary of the Foreign affairs. Of 1984 with 1992, he is successively first embassy secretary of France to the the United States, director of the press service of this same embassy, then first adviser of the embassy of France in India.

Married to Marie-Laure Guay, girl of the baron Roger Guay, stockbroker in Paris, this impassioned Sport, of History and Littérature is also a writer who published a work on the epopee Napoleon ienne, several tests, and two collections of poems in 1986 and 1988. In those it describes, with the wire of pages in the honor of the large poets, his childhood out of France. It dedicates of other pages to his mother, and also to her brother whose premature disappearance seems it to have durably affected.

Dominique de Villepin had three children with Marie-Laure Guay:

  • Marie born in 1986, Mannequin, to see the article Marie Steiss
  • Arthur also started a career in the mannequinat. but finally in 2006, it enters in Hypokhâgne
  • Victoire , born in 1989 and coed in prépa HEC with the Institution Midsummer's Day of Douai.

Civil career

Political career

Beginnings

In 1993, it is named principal private secretary of Alain Juppe, Foreign Minister of the Gouvernement Edouard Balladur.

Jacques Chirac, elected President of the Republic, names it in May 1995 general secretary of the presidency of the Republic. With the lawyer Francis Szpiner, it animates with the Elys3ee palace a legal cell, improperly called “the black cabinet” (cf black Cabinet), charged with following the politico-financial Affaires in progress.

In 1997, it is one of the principal instigators of the dissolution of the National Assembly by the president. The legislative elections lead to a defeat, and the militants of the RPR hold rigor of it to him, since then. The president refused his resignation however.

The Ministry for Foreign Affairs

In 2002, Jacques Chirac, re-elected, names it Foreign Minister. Imposing a character sometimes qualified, in the portraits of the press, of aristocrat and poet, it is the incarnation of the opposition of the French president to the war in Iraq wanted by the United States of America. He makes with the Safety advice of the United Nations a speech which is worth to him to be applauded, rare thing in this enclosure. At the same moment, Chirac sets up Alliance Bases in Paris, who gather DGSE, the CIA and other information agencies in operations of counter-terrorism.

Villepin travels to the Chile in February 2004. He refutes any charge carried against France about a co-operation with the military dictatorships of the Southern Cône in the years 1970, and this in spite of the evidence brought by the journalist Marie-Monique Robin in his documentary, the death squads, the French school , which causes the creation of a French parliamentary board of inquiry, at the request of green deputies. Directed by the deputy UMP Roland Blum, this one does not conclude nevertheless with any co-operation between Paris, Santiago and Buenos Aires - while refusing to listen to Marie-Monique Robin, who discovered with the files a document proving the existence of a secret agreement binding Paris and Buenos Aires of 1959 to 1981.

It gathers the 2 camps in presence in Ivory Coast, that of the president legally elected Gbagbo, and that of the missed putschists, to which the French forces delivered the northern half of the country, in January 2003. It then succeeds in making them sign the Accords Kléber, in order to find a solution " pacifique" with the Civil war of Ivory Coast; This agreement obtained under the pressure of the French armed forces, however pains to apply.

When Nicolas Sarkozy leaves the ministry for the Interior in 2004, Jacques Chirac names Dominique de Villepin at this station.

Prime Minister

He is named Prime Minister the May 31st 2005, to replace Jean-Pierre Raffarin. Presented by the commentators like his rival, as well by the character as by political positioning, Nicolas Sarkozy becomes however her Minister of Interior Department, remaining president of the UMP. Thus, Jean-Pierre Raffarin, elected official of ground since many years, succeeds Dominique de Villepin, resulting from the French diplomacy, and which forever be candidate for a political election.

He is given “hundred days” to give again confidence with the French, starting a duel organized with Nicolas Sarkozy. Whereas this period is completed, he exerts the interim with the report heading when he chairs the Council of Ministers the September 7th 2005 to replace Jacques Chirac, allowed with the Valley of Thanks to cause of an cerebral vascular accident. He always replaces Jacques Chirac at the time of the 60e session of the General meeting of the United Nations to New York.

In September 2005, a strike with SNCM bursts: the government wishes privatiser the company at the edge of voluntary liquidation. Confrontations take place with Marseilles and a ship “is diverted” by the strikers. Dominique de Villepin utilizes GIGN, holds up the threat of imminent voluntary liquidation and proposes a share of the State and employees more important in the company. The strikers (in particular the Trade union of the Corsican workers and the CGT) yield.

In October, burst of the incidents in suburbs. 5.000 cars are burned in less than two weeks. Nicolas Sarkozy and Dominique de Villepin issues three months the state of emergency, prolonged a few days later by a vote at the Parliament, in order to make it possible to the prefects to issue the curfew.

Whereas it up to that point surprises (the surveys give him an important capital of sympathy even on the left), and that the Contrat news engages (CNE) did not cause a massive movement of opposition, Dominique de Villepin decides to launch an almost equivalent contract for the young people, the Contrat first engages (CPE). Presented by the trade unionists as being a threat against the labor regulation and the TDCI, this project meets the frank opposition of the left, and causes big demonstrations and strikes of students. Following a Battle of amendments and with the adoption of the amendment in question, the Prime Minister decides to use article 49.3 of the Constitution on the final vote of the law, thus stopping the first (and single, urgency having been declared) reading of the text to the National Assembly and allowing a fast adoption of the text. After weeks of demonstrations and blocking of university by the trade unions, Jacques Chirac is forced to intervene and claim to it not application of the legal text. The press (in particular Release ) and the whole of the left, the UDF and part of UMP are shown very critical, in particular on the method (especially the absence of dialog with the various actors during the preparation of measurement). April 10th, after multiple attempts to calm the protest (whose promulgation of the law by the President), Dominique de Villepin announces the fast replacement of the CPE by another measurement, which returns to its abrogation.

In April and May 2006, Dominique de Villepin was implied in the Affaire Clearstream 2. Informed by his friend Jean-Louis Gergorin, vice-president of EADS, a supposed plot aiming EADS, it entrusted a mission of information to the general Philippe Rondot in January 2004, then with the director of DST, Pierre de Bousquet de Florian. (Source). In these circumstances a faked document given to the Rondot general, by Jean-Louis Gergorin, includes Nicolas Sarkozy, in a compromising list of personalities. Jacques Chirac did however not plan to alter the government and reiterated, the May 6th 2006, “her full and whole confidence with the Prime Minister”.

Many deputies of UMP then start to criticize the Prime Minister openly. Whereas Dominique de Villepin is obliged to excuse itself to have caused an outcry as a full National Assembly, the June 22nd 2006, while speaking about “the cowardice” of the chief of the opposition, François Holland, some of them state to want the departure of Dominique de Villepin.

He resigns the May 15th 2007, the day before the transfer of power between Jacques Chirac and Nicolas Sarkozy.

Since May 15th, 2007

Two judges and of the police officers searched on July 5th, 2007 in the Parisian residence of Dominique de Villepin in the investigation into a possible plot carried out in 2004 against Nicolas Sarkozy (see the Affaire Clearstream 2). Continued searching the following day at its office, placed at its disposal by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, which occurred Kléber.

July 10th, 2007, he announces itself his next setting in examination in this file. July 27th, following its convocation in front of the magistrates in charge of the instruction, it is actually put in examination for " complicity of libelous denunciation, concealment of flight, concealment of breach of trust and complicity of use of faux". It to him is consequently intimated prohibition to contact the other protagonists quoted in the file, the first of which the former president Jacques Chirac.

In September, it multiplies the interventions in the media to more or less openly criticize the policy of Nicolas Sarkozy. Concerning the Clearstream business, the former Prime Minister considers that as a president of the Republic, Nicolas Sarkozy can be civil part in an legal affair with difficulty. It fears a pressure on the judges.

Syntheses of the political offices

Functions within political parties

  • 1977 - 2002: member of the RPR
  • since 2002: member of the UMP

Governmental functions

  • 1993-1995 : principal private secretary of the Foreign Minister Alain Juppe
  • May 1995 in May 2002: general secretary of the presidency of the Republic. With Alain Juppe and Jerome Monod, it constituted since 1997 the basic triangle of revenge chiraquienne, after having been at the origin of the decision of dissolution of the Assemblée, taken in 1997 by Jacques Chirac, and which gave again the majority with the left.
  • May 2002 - March 2004: Foreign Minister in the Government Jean-Pierre Raffarin 1 and Government Jean-Pierre Raffarin 2
  • March 31st 2004 - May 31st 2005: local Freedom and Internal security, Minister of Interior Department in the Government Jean-Pierre Raffarin 3
  • May 31st 2005 - May 15th 2007: named Prime Minister by Jacques Chirac following the failure of the referendum of the May 29th on the ratification of the European constitutional treaty.

Additional details

  • In 1997, it is one of the instigators of the dissolution of the National Assembly in order to put an end to the internal conflicts line. Whereas voices rise to claim its head, Chirac refuses her resignation. It is then called " Néron " by Bernadette Chirac.
  • About the same time, one lends the to him witty remark according to: “ I manage the brain of the president ”.
  • In Le Monde of the 30.04.05, this ticket:
" Dominique de Villepin come with Lorient, on the aircraft of the government, wants to kill two birds with one stone: to hold a meeting as Minister of Interior Department and a meeting for “yes the”. In the apparatus, he explained the etymology of his name, Galouzeau de Villepin. “ Gall wants to say cock, and ouzeau, bird. They is quite French, not? ”. The minister has also his theory on the electoral campaigns: “ At the beginning, says it, Dalton always gain. Then Rantanplan arrives, chamboule all, and Lucky Luke ends up carrying it. ” But which thus would agree to play the part of Rantanplan? "
  • Dominique de Villepin maintains the privileged relations with good number of Lebanese personalities, in particular in the field of arts, the literature and poetry; it thus gave distinguished and decorations with a certain number of them enters 2004 and 2005, thus showing an interest very particular to the Lebanon. It had inaugurated, as a Foreign Minister, the embassy of France with Beirut in July 2002.
  • Marathonian of good level (2h57' 06" March 16th, 1980 with the marathon of the Essonne).
  • It measures 1,93 Mr.

Quotations

  • “the option of the war can appear a priori fastest. But let us not forget that for having gained the war, it is necessary to build peace. ” (At the Safety advice of the United Nations on February 14th, 2003, before the war in Iraq)
  • “It is an old country, France, of an old continent like mine, Europe, which says it today to you, which knew the wars, occupation, cruelty. A country which does not forget and which knows all that it owes to the combatants of freedom from America and besides. And which however did not cease being held upright vis-a-vis the History and in front of the men. ” (COp cit.)
  • “the expression of war against terrorism is unsuitable. A war relates to two entities internationally recognized and represented, which is held according to rules whose each fighting section will have to answer at the end of the war. We do not have any of these three points here. ” (September 2004)
  • “Still and always France celebrates Lebanon, in these painful hours of its history. Lebanon, this so familiar ground, if fraternal. Still and always France celebrates the talent, that of the spirit and the feather. ” (during the handing-over of the badges of the National order of the Merit with Venus Khoury-Ghatta, in April 2005) (see also).
  • “They will realize that I am enough idiot to go until the end. ” with the one of its ministers, in full crisis of CPE in March 2006.
  • “At each day is enough its hedge, according to the proverb of our friend Guy Drut. ” on May 26th, 2006, in connection with the Amnesty of Guy Drut

Distinctions

As a Prime Minister, after the first six months of her government, Dominique de Villepin was made Grand-Croix of the National order of the Merit. The badges were given to him by the President of the Republic, Jacques Chirac, Large-Master of the Order, at the conclusion of the Council of Ministers of December 6th, 2005.

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