Édouard Balladur
| Édouard Balladur | |
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| 111th Prime Minister of France | |
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In office 29 March 1993 – 10 May 1995 |
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| President | François Mitterrand |
| Preceded by | Pierre Bérégovoy |
| Succeeded by | Alain Juppé |
| Minister of Finance | |
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In office 20 March 1986 – 12 May 1988 |
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| President | François Mitterrand |
| Prime Minister | Jacques Chirac |
| Preceded by | Pierre Bérégovoy |
| Succeeded by | Pierre Bérégovoy |
| Secretary General of the Presidency | |
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In office 5 April 1973 – 2 April 1974 |
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| President | Georges Pompidou |
| Preceded by | Michel Jobert |
| Succeeded by | Bernard Beck |
| Personal details | |
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2 May 1929 Izmir, Turkey |
| Political party | Union for a Popular Movement |
| Spouse(s) | Marie-Josèphe Delacour |
| Children | 4 |
| Occupation | Senior official |
| Religion | Roman Catholic (Armenian Rite) |
Édouard Balladur (French: [e.dwaʁ ba.la.dyʁ]; born 2 May 1929) is a French politician who served as Prime Minister of France under François Mitterrand from 29 March 1993 to 10 May 1995. He unsuccessfully ran for president in the 1995 French presidential election, coming in third place.
Balladur was born in Izmir, Turkey, to an ethnic Armenian family with five children and longstanding ties to France. His family emigrated to Marseille in the mid to late 1930s.
In 1957, Balladur married Marie-Josèphe Delacour, with whom he had four sons.
Balladur started his political career in 1964 as an advisor to Prime Minister Georges Pompidou. After Pompidou's election as President of France in 1969, Balladur was appointed under-secretary general of the presidency then secretary general from 1973 to Pompidou's death in 1974.
He returned to politics in the 1980s as a supporter of Jacques Chirac. A member of the Neo-Gaullist Rally for the Republic (RPR) party, he was the theoretician behind the "cohabitation government" from 1986 to 1988, explaining that if the right won the legislative election, it could govern with Chirac as prime minister without Socialist Party President François Mitterrand's resignation. As Minister of Economy and Finance, he sold off a large number of public companies and abolished the wealth tax.
He appeared as an unofficial deputy Prime Minister in the cabinet led by Chirac. He took a major part in the adoption of liberal and pro-European policies by Chirac and the RPR. After Chirac's defeat at the 1988 presidential election, part of the RPR held him responsible of the abandonment of Gaullist doctrine, but he kept the confidence of Chirac.
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