Jean-Marie Bockel

Jean-Marie Bockel , born the June 22nd 1950 with Strasbourg, is a lawyer and a Politician French. Former member of the socialist party, it was Secretary of State near the commercial Minister between 1984 and 1986 in the government of Laurent Fabius, then was elected Maire of Mulhouse in 1989, and senator of Haut-Rhin in 2004. He is currently Secretary of State charged with the Coopération and the Francophonie near the Foreign Minister of the government Fillon since his nomination the June 19th 2007.

Biography

He follows studies of right and obtains a control of right then the training certificate to the occupation of lawyer. In 1976, it opens its cabinet with Mulhouse. In parallel it starts a political career and takes its chart with the Socialist party in 1973. In 1974 he becomes secretary of socialist Youths of Haut-Rhin. He is then close to CERES of Jean-Pierre Chevènement, with the left wing of the PS. He is elected appointed of Haut-Rhin at 30 years in June 1981. He is re-elected in 1986 and 1988. Beaten at the time of blue vagueness of 1993, it finds its station in 1997.

Secretary of State near the commercial Minister in 1984, he becomes briefly commercial Minister in 1986. After its departure of the government he becomes spokesperson of Jean-Pierre Chevènement within the current Socialisme and République in 1987. He is also general adviser of Haut-Rhin during 10 years and mayor of Mulhouse since 1989.

Since the end of the year 1990 it is made the apostle of a restoration blairist of the Socialist party, denouncing them archaism of part of the Socialist party . In 2001, it founds the club " thus; Left moderne" and a report/ratio returns on the means of simplifying the creation of companies. It presents a motion in this direction to the Congrès of Mans in 2005; its motion collects 0,65% of the voices. He is then member of the National office of the Socialist party. He had already deposited a general contribution For a modern socialism with the congress of Dijon in 2003.

May 23rd, 2001 he is elected with the presidency of the Association of the Mayors of Big cities of France, presidency which he leaves at the beginning of July 2007.

With the legislative elections of June 2002, it is beaten by the candidate UMP Arlette Grosskost. The September 21st 2004, it is elected Senator of Haut-Rhin. It continues during same time its calls to the restoration of the PS: In December 2005, he announces the creation of the current Réformisme and Rénovation to continue the reflection resulting from his motion presented to the Congress of Mans. September 14th, 2006, it signs a call of support for the socialist investiture of Dominique Strauss-Kahn for the presidential election of 2007, in company of 15 other senators, 8 deputies and 2 European deputies. It has maintained then the relations with Francois Bayrou for several years.

Named Secretary of State charged with the Co-operation and the Francophonie near the Foreign Minister of the government Fillon (2) on June 19th, 2007, it is excluded from the PS. He declares then:

Ca makes ten years that I work, that I militate without much success for the modernization of the PS, to in any case preach there more social-liberal ideas, blairists, ideas which perhaps would have enabled to us besides to gain the presidential one if one had more known to defend them

September 26th, 2007, it creates the party modern Gauche, movement liberal of center left. Gauche Moderne will be combined with the presidential majority at the time of the municipal elections of 2008.

Catholic practitioner, Jean-Marie Bockel is married in Marie-Odile Mayer and has 5 children. He is member of the High council to integration and colonel of reserve of the air force.

Political convictions

Jean-Marie Bockel was perceived like incarnating the right wing or social-liberal socialist party. It does not hide its sympathy to the pragmatic methods of the member of the Labor Party Tony Blair and declares itself Social-liberal. It estimates that socialism and liberalism can be melted for being better achieved. It defines its political doctrines thus:

Yes, we are liberal Socialists. Socialists, because we must oppose to the power struggles and the injustice, the need for a shared emancipation. Because we give each other for end justice and social protection, the reduction of the inequalities and the promotion of solidarity. Because we work with the division of the goods and the rights on a world and continent scale. Socialists, because we defend the public spirit, which makes company. Because we support the principle of a class action suit and voluntarist.

Liberals, because we include/understand the emancipation like access to freedom. We defend freedom and the individual responsibility, the autonomy of the civil society, delimitation of sovereignty of the State. The emancipation must be the fruit of shared freedoms: joined together by the debate and the contractual negotiation, regulated by the standards of the right and the exercise of justice.

Enthusiastic defender of the Blairisme, it declares “Blairiste, more than ever” in 2006. He translated the expression the Third Way (The Third Way)/the New Center (Die neue Mitte) of the Blair/Schröder proclamation into “Third Left”, reference to cleavage between French Première and Second Lefts established by Michel Rocard.

Regarded as a mayor sedentary of left for the stress which it laid on the fight against the delinquency in Mulhouse, Jean-Marie Bockel is in favor for a long time, at the same time in the speech and the acts, of a necessary balance between the prevention and safety. He is a defender convinced of the reinforcement of the role of the mayor in the policies of animation of the local contracts of safety. He had approved several measures of the Minister of Interior Department Sarkozy

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