Michèle Alliot-Marie
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Michèle Yvette Marie-Thérèse Jeanne Honorine Alliot-Marie (French: [miʃɛl aljomaʁi]; born 10 September 1946), known in France as MAM, is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from France. She is a member of the Republicans, part of the European People's Party. A member of all right-wing governments formed in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s, she was the first woman in France to hold the portfolios of Defense (2002–2007), the Interior (2007–2009) and Foreign Affairs (2010–2011);[1] she has also been in charge of Youth and Sports (1993–1995) and Justice (2009–2010), and was granted the honorary rank of Minister of State in her last two offices.
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Michèle Alliot-Marie | |
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Member of the European Parliament | |
In office 1 July 2014 – 1 July 2019 | |
In office 1 July 1989 – 22 May 1992 | |
Constituency | East France |
Minister of Foreign and European Affairs | |
In office 14 November 2010 – 27 February 2011 | |
Prime Minister | François Fillon |
Preceded by | Bernard Kouchner |
Succeeded by | Alain Juppé |
Minister of Justice | |
In office 23 June 2009 – 13 November 2010 | |
Prime Minister | François Fillon |
Preceded by | Rachida Dati |
Succeeded by | Michel Mercier |
Minister of the Interior | |
In office 18 May 2007 – 23 June 2009 | |
Prime Minister | François Fillon |
Preceded by | François Baroin |
Succeeded by | Brice Hortefeux |
Minister of Defence | |
In office 7 May 2002 – 18 May 2007 | |
Prime Minister | |
Preceded by | Alain Richard |
Succeeded by | Hervé Morin |
Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports | |
In office 29 March 1993 – 18 May 1995 | |
Prime Minister | Édouard Balladur |
Preceded by | Frédérique Bredin |
Succeeded by | Guy Drut |
Member of the National Assembly for Pyrénées-Atlantiques's 6th constituency | |
In office 16 March 1986 – 1 May 1993 | |
Succeeded by | Daniel Poulou |
In office 17 September 1995 – 18 June 2002 | |
Preceded by | Daniel Poulou |
Succeeded by | Daniel Poulou |
Personal details | |
Born | Michèle Jeanne Honorine Marie (1946-09-10) 10 September 1946 (age 77) Villeneuve-le-Roi, France |
Political party | European People's Party (1989-1992, 2014-present) The Republicans (2015–present) |
Other political affiliations | Rally for the Republic (before 2002) Union for a Popular Movement (2002–2015) |
Spouse |
Michel Alliot
(m. 1971; div. 1984) |
Domestic partner | Patrick Ollier |
Children | 3 |
Education | |
She resigned from government in 2011 due to her position during the Tunisian Revolution; one year later, in the 2012 French legislative elections, she lost her seat as Deputy (MP) for the 6th Constituency of Pyrénées-Atlantiques. She became a member of the European Parliament in 2014. She remains Deputy Mayor of Saint-Jean-de-Luz as well as Vice President of the National Council of The Republicans.
Alliot-Marie was the last President of the Rally for the Republic (1999–2002), an incarnation of the Gaullist party, and was the first woman to chair a major French political party. She has remained a leading Gaullist after the RPR merged into the UMP and was seen as a rival to Nicolas Sarkozy before and after his election as president in 2007, although direct confrontation was always avoided.
Alliot-Marie is a law and political science scholar. Her companion is Patrick Ollier, Minister in charge of Relations with Parliament in the Fillon II government; both were ministers simultaneously for a few months in 2010–2011, the first time a couple ever sat in a French government.