Laurence Parisot

Laurence Parisot (born the August 31st 1959 with Luxeuil-the-Baths in Haute-Saône), is a woman head of undertaking, chairman of the French Institut of public opinion (IFOP) and president of the Mouvement of the companies of France (MEDEF) since July 5th, 2005.

Heiress of the group Parisot (1st industrialist of the piece of furniture in France), her heritage the place 276e larger French fortune.

Biography

His/her father and his grandfather Jacques Parisot (founder of the company and graduate of the school Swell) directed the Parisot Group, company of pieces of furniture, company not - quoted on the stock exchange, established with Saint-Wolf-on-Semouse (Haute-Saône) and currently directed by his uncle, Jean-Claude.

After studies of right to faculty of Nancy it integrates the Institut of political studies of Paris. In 1985, it enters to the institute of surveys Louis Harris, of which it becomes director the following year, under the protection of Pierre Weil, chairman of Sofres. Since 1990, it directs the institute of surveys IFOP, of which it holds 75% of the capital. It is also chairman of SME of Optimum furnishing, of which it has in fact deputy management and of various tourist companies with St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre.

Single person and without children, it is impassioned by surrealist art .

It is decorated with the rank with Knight in the National order with the Merit.

In MEDEF

In 2002, it enters to the executive council of the MEDEF.

At the end of the presidency of Ernest-Antoine Seilliere, it left favorite like candidate to her succession, for which it had the support of several professional federations of the MEDEF as the bank, the insurances, health and the building. It also had the support of Ernest-Antoine Seilliere.

chairman of the survey institute and market research, IFOP, it is elected the July 5th 2005 as of the first ballot in the majority absolute with 271 votes, at the time of the extraordinary general assembly of MEDEF. She was opposed to Yvon Jacob (150 votes) and Hugues-Arnaud Mayer (85 votes); there were 2 abstentions.

After its very liberal declaration (" freedom to think stops where the labor regulation " starts;), she wanted to alleviate the spirits by declaring that she wanted " to prove that liberal does not want to say antisocial ". She also declared that she wanted that her presidency is under the sign of the fight against unemployment and to place " the company in the middle of the French company " to make " of it; the engine of the social rise ".

For that, she declared that she would put all works about it to push the parliamentary to modify the Labor regulation, which must according to her be modernized. She also wants that the Loi S on the taxation of the companies are re-examined.

Quotations

Freedom to undertake stops where the labor regulation starts , at the General meeting of the MEDEF in January 2005.
Would the life, health, the love are precarious, why work escape this law? , Le Figaro , August 30th 2005.
Precariousness is a law of the human condition. , France Inter, September 3rd 2005.
The word precariousness is a buzzword which aims to prevent us from reflecting. , France Inter, September 3rd 2005.
Because to say themselves or let accept everyone today in France which we can enter a trade, take an employment and keep it almost with life, it is Utopia. Or then it is officialization, it is close to the communist Utopia and it was seen how it finished. , France Inter, September 3rd 2005.
The state of young person, it is a passage, a disease which one cures , the Platform , January 16th 2006. (milked humorous to say that passes - inspired by the quotation of Cervantès “youth is a mental disease which one cures sometimes”)
I am smoked. , in connection with the goldens delicious parachutes of EADS
One will engage more if it is less complicated to lay off.

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