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'''Arnaud Montebourg''' ({{IPA-fr|aʁ.no mɔ̃t.buʁ}}; born 30 October 1962) is a French politician who served in the government of France as Minister of Industrial Renewal from May 2012 till the government's dissolution on 25 August 2014.<ref name=ligneeco>[http://www.lemonde.fr/les-decodeurs/article/2014/07/11/arnaud-montebourg-des-paroles-pour-quels-actes_4455655_4355770.html « Comment Arnaud Montebourg a cultivé sa propre ligne économique »], ''Le Monde.fr'', 11 juillet 2014, mis à jour le 25 août 2014</ref> Between April 2014 and August 2014, as a member of the short-lived first [[Valls Cabinet|Valls government]], Montebourg enjoyed additional ministerial responsibilities whereby his overall brief encompassed the Economy, Industrial Renewal and Information Technology.<ref name=ligneeco/>
'''Arnaud Montebourg''' ({{IPA-fr|aʁ.no mɔ̃t.buʁ}}; born 30 October 1962) is a French politician who served in the government of France as Minister of Industrial Renewal from May 2012 till the government's dissolution on 25 August 2014.<ref name=ligneeco>[http://www.lemonde.fr/les-decodeurs/article/2014/07/11/arnaud-montebourg-des-paroles-pour-quels-actes_4455655_4355770.html « Comment Arnaud Montebourg a cultivé sa propre ligne économique »], ''Le Monde.fr'', 11 juillet 2014, mis à jour le 25 août 2014</ref> Between April 2014 and August 2014, as a member of the short-lived first [[Valls Cabinet|Valls government]], Montebourg enjoyed additional ministerial responsibilities whereby his overall brief encompassed the Economy, Industrial Renewal and Information Technology.<ref name=ligneeco/> He was succeed by former [investment banking|investment banker] Emmanuel Macron.<ref>https://news.yahoo.com/french-govt-reshuffle-expels-dissident-ministers-171140970.html</ref>


Previously he served as Deputy for the sixth district of [[Saône-et-Loire]] in the [[National Assembly of France]] from 1997 to 2012, and he was President of the General Council of Saône et Loire from 2008 to 2012. A member of the [[Socialist Party (France)|Socialist Party]], Montebourg was a candidate in the [[French Socialist Party presidential primary, 2011|Socialist presidential primary of 2011]].
Previously he served as Deputy for the sixth district of [[Saône-et-Loire]] in the [[National Assembly of France]] from 1997 to 2012, and he was President of the General Council of Saône et Loire from 2008 to 2012. A member of the [[Socialist Party (France)|Socialist Party]], Montebourg was a candidate in the [[French Socialist Party presidential primary, 2011|Socialist presidential primary of 2011]].

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Arnaud Montebourg
Minister of Industrial Renewal
In office
16 May 2012 – 25 August 2014
PresidentFrançois Hollande
Prime MinisterJean-Marc Ayrault
Manuel Valls
Preceded byÉric Besson
Succeeded byEmmanuel Macron
Personal details
Born (1962-10-30) 30 October 1962 (age 62)
Clamecy, France
Political partySocialist Party
Domestic partnerAudrey Pulvar (2010–2012)
Alma materPantheon-Sorbonne University
Institute of Political Studies, Paris

Arnaud Montebourg (French pronunciation: [aʁ.no mɔ̃t.buʁ]; born 30 October 1962) is a French politician who served in the government of France as Minister of Industrial Renewal from May 2012 till the government's dissolution on 25 August 2014.[1] Between April 2014 and August 2014, as a member of the short-lived first Valls government, Montebourg enjoyed additional ministerial responsibilities whereby his overall brief encompassed the Economy, Industrial Renewal and Information Technology.[1] He was succeed by former [investment banking|investment banker] Emmanuel Macron.[2]

Previously he served as Deputy for the sixth district of Saône-et-Loire in the National Assembly of France from 1997 to 2012, and he was President of the General Council of Saône et Loire from 2008 to 2012. A member of the Socialist Party, Montebourg was a candidate in the Socialist presidential primary of 2011.

Biography

Born at Clamecy in Nièvre, he is the son of Michel Montebourg, born in 1933, a civil servant employed in the Ministry of Economy and Finances, and Leïla Ould Cadi, born in 1939 in Oran, a professor of Algerian descent, who was born to a family of Wālis from Hachem, northern Algeria.[3] His 4th great-grand father, Ahmed Ould Cadi, agha of Frendah (Oran) was appointed Grand-Croix de la Légion d'honneur in 1867.[4][5][6]

Arnaud Montebourg became an attorney following university. Together with the notable attorney fr [Thierry Levy], he defended fr [Christian Didier], charged in the 1993 slaying of René Bousquet.[7] The former Vichy official had been indicted for war crimes and was soon to be tried. Didier was convicted in 1995 and received a 10-year sentence.[8]

Politics

Arnaud Montebourg during Ségolène Royal and José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero's meeting in Toulouse for the 2007 presidential election.

Together with fr [Bastien François], a Professor of Political Science at the Sorbonne University, in 2001 Montebourg was the cofounder of the Convention pour la VI-ème République (C6R). This convention called for significant constitutional changes, leading to the founding of a "Sixth Republic".

Montebourg was one of the founding members of the political movement known as the Nouveau Parti Socialiste (New Socialist Party). He left to create a new movement within the socialist party called Rénover, Maintenant (Renewal Now). He was one of the leading opponents of President Jacques Chirac's immunity from prosecution, especially concerning the corruption scandals in the Paris region. Montebourg also supported reporter Denis Robert for his role in revealing the illegal system of double-accounts maintained by Clearstream, a clearing-house based in Luxembourg.

He has been engaged in a campaign against the rules governing taxation of foreign nationals and banking secrecy of Switzerland.[9]

Montebourg was appointed as spokesman for Ségolène Royal's presidential campaign following his endorsement of her candidacy during the Socialist Party primary election of November 2006. On 18 January 2007, Royal suspended Montebourg from her campaign for one month the day after he said on a Canal+ talk show, "Ségolène Royal has only one fault, her partner."[10] He was referring to the contradictory statements on tax policy made by Royal's partner, François Hollande, a leader of the Socialist Party. Montebourg had offered his resignation, which Royal refused to accept.

In 2011, when Dominique Strauss-Kahn was released from jail and flew back to France, Montebourg urged him to apologise for embarrassing the Socialist Party.[11]

Montebourg ranked third in the Parti Socialiste's primary election for the 2012 French presidential election, receiving about 17% of the votes. (François Hollande was first and Martine Aubry was second).

He was appointed as Minister of Industrial Renewal in the government of Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault on 16 May 2012.[12]

He made a controversial statement that nuclear energy is "an industry of the future" despite the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. Interior Minister Manuel Valls backed up Montebourg while the alliance of the Socialist Party with the Green Party might worsen if this statement confirms in practice a backtracking of the nuclear commitment of François Hollande and the Ayrault Cabinet. In November 2012, Arnaud Montebourg made further controversial statements about Lakshmi Mittal by declaring that "Mittal's lies since 2006 are overwhelming … he's never kept his word", urging him to leave the country: "We no longer want Mittal in France because they don't respect France".

In 2014, contemporary with the proposed General Electric takeover of Alstom, Montebourg introduced a decree, nicknamed the "décret Alstom", or the "décret Montebourg", extending the French state's right of veto of foreign takeovers to assets in the fields of energy supply, water, transport, telecoms and public health.[13][14][15][16] Mountebourg was quoted as saying the decree protected France's strategic interests and represented the end of laissez-faire economic policy.[17]

On 28 May 2014, Montebourg said that if the United kingdom "were to vote to leave the EU, France will roll out the red carpet to British investors who will flee their country. They will all come to France because companies need Europe."[18]

Personal life

In 2010, celebrity magazines revealed that he was in a relationship with Audrey Pulvar, a French television journalist. They announced the end of their relationship on 18 November 2012.

Political career

Governmental function

Minister for Industrial Renewal : Since May 2012.

Electoral mandates

National Assembly of France

Member of the National Assembly of France for Saône-et-Loire (6th constituency) : 1997–2012. Elected in 1997, re-elected in 2002, 2007.

General Council

President of the General Council of Saône-et-Loire : 2008–2012 (Resignation).

General councillor of Saône-et-Loire : Since 2008.

References

  1. ^ a b « Comment Arnaud Montebourg a cultivé sa propre ligne économique », Le Monde.fr, 11 juillet 2014, mis à jour le 25 août 2014
  2. ^ https://news.yahoo.com/french-govt-reshuffle-expels-dissident-ministers-171140970.html
  3. ^ In an interview to an Algerian electronic newspaper in February 2010, Montebourg said, "My grandfather is Algerian. His name was Khermiche Ould Cadi. He is from a family of the Mascara plain, from Dombasle to be precise. "Mon grand père est Algérien. Il s'appelait Khermiche Ould Cadi. Il est issu d'une famille de la plaine de Mascara, de Dombasle, exactement. ", in: Guemache, Lounes (25 February 2010). "La France n'a aucune raison de ne pas regarder en face ce qu'elle a été". Tout sur l'Algérie (TSA) (in French). Retrieved 18 August 2010.; the town named Dombasle during the colonization bears now the name of Hachem
  4. ^ Guy Benhamou, Arnaud Montebourg, l'ambition à tout prix, Stock, 2004, p.12
  5. ^ Biography of Ahmed Ould Cadi in Le livre d'or de l'Algérie, A. Challamel, 1890, pp. 499–507
  6. ^ Décret impérial 10499, 1860
  7. ^ MARY DEJEVSKY, "Killer's tale stirs ghosts of Vichy", The Independent (UK), 7 November 1995, 28 May 2012
  8. ^ Gary Borg, "Writer Sentenced In Vichy Slaying", Chicago Tribune, 14 November 1995. Retrieved 28 May 2012
  9. ^ "Swiss and French squabble over tax", Al Jazeera, 6 January 2007
  10. ^ "Royal rétablit l’ordre juste en suspendant Montebourg", Le Figaro, 18 January 2007
  11. ^ "Strauss-Kahn regrets 'moral failing'", Hindustan Times, 19 September 2011
  12. ^ Profile: Hollande's government for France, BBC News, 16 May 2012
  13. ^ "Décret n° 2014-479 du 14 mai 2014 relatif aux investissements étrangers soumis à autorisation préalable", www.legifrance.gouv.fr (in French), 16 May 2014
  14. ^ "Décret Alstom : une "mauvaise idée" pour Gattaz, la Commission européenne attentive", www.boursier.com (in French), 15 May 2014
  15. ^ "France grabs for power over Alstom future with new takeover law (update 5)", www.reuters.com, 15 May 2014
  16. ^ "Au fait, c'est quoi ce décret sur les « investissements stratégiques » ?", www.lemonde.fr (in French), 16 May 2014
  17. ^ d'Allonnes, David Revault; Pietralunga, Cedric (15 May 2014), "Montebourg : « Le décret sur les entreprises, c'est la fin du laisser-faire »", www.lemonde.fr (in French), Le choix que nous avons fait, avec le premier ministre, est un choix de patriotisme économique. Ces mesures de protection des intérêts stratégiques de la France sont une reconquête de notre puissance. C'est la fin du laisser-faire
  18. ^ "France to 'roll out red carpet' to British investors", The Telegraph, 27 May 2014.
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