François Charles Amand Fillon is a Politician French, member of the Union for a popular movement (UMP) and Prime Minister of the France since the May 17th 2007.

Biography

Origins and family

Born the March 4th 1954, with the Mans, in the the Sarthe, Francois Fillon is the son of the Basque Historien Anne Soulet and of Michel Fillon, Notaire originating in the Vendée (the Essarts) and in the Two-Sevres (Secondigny).

Groin of their children, Francois Fillon grows, with her three brothers, Pierre, Arnaud and Dominique, in the small town of Cérans-Foulletourte, in the the Sarthe, where he attends the elementary school.

He studies then with the private college of Saint-Michel-of-Perrais with Parigné-le-Pôlin from where it is excluded temporarily to have thrown a lachrymatory bulb in full course. He is registered then with the Notre-Dame college of Holy-Cross to the Mans from where he is excluded during a few days for indiscipline (to have carried out a gathering of pupils asking for the resignation of an English professor that he considered inefficient) before being reinstated. He obtains in 1972 a baccalaureat of Philosophie.

He considers a time to become Journaliste and carries out during two years of the training courses to the AFP, in particular in Spain where he writes a biographical note of the Général Free and a note devoted to the derailment in July 1972 of the train El Cuervo which made 76 dead. He carries out also an interview with Madrid of Danielle Darrieux and covers the races of Tauromachie.

In 1974, admiror of the General de Gaulle, which represents for him the symbol of France strong and large, invited to play a part in the world, it starts to affirm his political convictions.

It continues higher learning with the Université of Maine in Mans, where he is the pupil of Christian Philip. It obtains a Maîtrise there public Droit in 1976. The following year it obtains a Diplôme of thorough studies (DEA) in public law of the Université Rene Descartes of Paris and a DEA in Political sciences of Sciences Po.

In 1976, it enters the political life as parliamentary assistant of Joel Theule, appointed the Sarthe. It successfully directs the election campaign of this last at the time of the legislative elections of 1978.

It Marie the June 28th 1980 with Penelope Kathryn Clarke, a Welsh . They have five children: Marie (1982), Charles (1984), Antoine (1985), Edouard (1989) and Arnaud (2001).

The December 14th 1980, Francois Fillon is present at the time of the death quasi in its arms of Joel Theule. This one, victim of an mild heart attack had required of Fillon, her collaborator nearest, to lead it to the hospital. Arrived at the urgencies, Theule is gotten out of the motor vehicle and loses consciousness almost in the arms of Francois Fillon, returning her last breath. The doctors try during 3 hours to reanimate Joel Theule at the insistent request of Francois Fillon who loses her mentor in policy then.

The April 17th 1981, in full weekend of Easter, Arnaud the Fillon, 18 years, youngest out of the brothers of Francois Fillon, is killed in car accident. The event which occurs less than 6 months after the death of Theule, is traumatisant for Francois Fillon, which will say more to remember nothing of this day.

Political career

Beginnings

Functions within political parties

  • 1997 : national secretary of the RPR, in charge of the Federations.
  • 1998 : spokesperson of the executive commission of the RPR.
  • national secretary of the RPR 1999; political adviser near the president of the RPR 1999 - 2001;
  • Since 2002: founding member of the Union moving, writer of the project of the Union moving (“Our vision for France”) and of the program of UMP for the legislative elections of 2007. It also founded a club gathering its partisans, the Association France.9 .
  • After “not” with the referendum on the European Constitutional treaty and the resignation of Jean-Pierre Raffarin which follows, it is not renewed within the government Villepin. Furious, he declares as of the following day in an article of the Monde of the June 3rd 2005: “Chirac one will not remember nothing, except my reforms”. Matter which it will moderate later: an access of anger and vanity . He announces his setting in shift in favor of Nicolas Sarkozy for the presidential election of 2007. He declares then: They made ego the campaign director of Sarkozy .
political adviser with the UMP (November 2004 - May 2007).

Local elective functions

Parliamentary functions

With the National Assembly
  • 1981 - 1986: elected official appointed of the 4 district of the the Sarthe as of the first turn with 50,14% of the voices. It thus succeeds Joel Theule whereas the “vague pink” breaks on the Parliament. It becomes thus, at 27 years, the youngest deputy of the National Assembly. He is a long time a close relation of Philippe Séguin.
  • 1986 - 1988: re-elected appointed of the 4 district of the the Sarthe
    • 1986: Member of the Commission of Defense
    • 1986 - 1988: President of the Commission of Defense
    • President of the Group of France-Thailand friendship.
  • 1988 - 1993: re-elected appointed of the 4 district of the the Sarthe
  • 1993 - 1997: re-elected appointed of the 4 district of the the Sarthe
  • 1997 - 2002: re-elected appointed of the 4 district of the the Sarthe
  • 2002: re-elected appointed of the 4 district of the the Sarthe (fine of the mandate the July 18th 2002, following its nomination with the government)
  • 2007: re-elected appointed of the 4 district of the the Sarthe (fine of the mandate the July 19th 2007, following its nomination with the government)

With the Senate

Governmental functions

Minister
  • April 1993 - 1995: Minister for Higher education and Research in the Government Edouard Balladur with Christian Philip as principal private secretary.
  • May 1995 - June 1997: Minister for Post office and information Technologies, then delegated minister in charge for the Post office, Telecommunications and Space in the first and second governments of Alain Juppe.
  • May 2002 - March 2004: Minister for the social Affairs, Work and Solidarity, in the first and second government of Jean-Pierre Raffarin and number 3 of the government. It carries out the principal reform of this government: that of the retirements, called law or reform Fillon, which it leads until the end, in spite of the dissatisfaction with part of French people. He also carries out a reform of the 35 hours. He gains “gallons of man of listening and dialog, a good knowledge of the files and the regard of the trade-union organizations”.
  • March 2004 - June 2005: named Minister for State education in March 2004 in the third government of Jean-Pierre Raffarin, it starts another reform which causes very important protest movements among the high-school pupils during spring 2005. Many colleges are blocked and/or occupied. It gives up the part of the reform concerning the baccalaureat and makes vote the remainder of the bill.

Prime Minister

May 17th, 2007: Nicolas Sarkozy, President of the republic, by the decree of May 17th, 2007 names it Prime Minister. This decision is announced by an official statement.

May 18th, 2007: Formation of its first government: on a proposal from the new Prime Minister, the President of the Republic, by the decree of May 18th, 2007 relating to the composition of the government fixes the perimeters of the ministries and appoints the new ministers.

Francois Fillon is Prime Minister of the French Republic since the May 17th 2007, during 2 successive governments:

Often qualified of “social gaullist”, Francois Fillon forms a first tightened government, composed of 15 ministers, who endeavors to respect the parity between ministers (8 men and 7 women), but not between Secretaries of State. It is a government placed under the sign of the opening, with the arrival, among the whole of the ministers and the Secretaries of State, of two socialist, a centrist and two personalities “of left”). This opening towards individualities of the opposition is not besides a first, since Michel Rocard, in 1988, had tried an similar operation, but only with centrists. The second government Fillon confirms these choices but with a widened team.

The first measurements of the Government seem to indicate a reduction in the role even of Prime Minister, Nicolas Sarkozy seeming to want to directly take in hand the files with the ministers.

The September 15th 2007, it attends the beatification of the father Basile-Antoine Moreau in Mans.

Francois Fillon was decorated with Large the cross of the national order of the merit by Nicolas Sarkozy, the November 21st 2007; respecting the tradition resulting from VGE.

Additional details

Quotations

  • France can support the truth (currency, resumption of Pierre Mendès France)
  • More there are taxes less there is employment
  • Chirac one will not remember nothing, except my reforms
  • Division is always harmful
  • It will be a free government, but which will implement the project scrupulously.
  • There are those which are made foam in front of the cameras every evening, and then there are those which make the reforms about which one will still speak in twenty years.

Extra-professional activities

  • Impassioned by the automobile race, Francois Fillon takes part, in 2003, with the 24 hours of Mans Classic with Henri Pescarolo, on Ferrari 250 GTO. He is even member of the 24 hour old steering committee of Mans and the Automobile Club of the West.
  • Reader of Chateaubriant, it appreciates, in addition, the race on foot, cycling, the Tauromachie and the Alpinisme.

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