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Alain Juppé

Alain Juppé
Alain Juppé à Québec en 2015 (cropped 2).jpg
112th Prime Minister of France
In office
17 May 1995 – 2 June 1997
President Jacques Chirac
Preceded by Édouard Balladur
Succeeded by Lionel Jospin
Minister of Foreign and European Affairs
In office
27 February 2011 – 15 May 2012
Prime Minister François Fillon
Preceded by Michèle Alliot-Marie
Succeeded by Laurent Fabius
In office
29 March 1993 – 18 May 1995
Prime Minister Édouard Balladur
Preceded by Roland Dumas
Succeeded by Hervé de Charette
Minister of Defence and Veterans Affairs
In office
14 November 2010 – 27 February 2011
Prime Minister François Fillon
Preceded by Hervé Morin (Defence)
Succeeded by Gérard Longuet
Minister of Ecology and Sustainable Development
In office
18 May 2007 – 18 June 2007
Prime Minister François Fillon
Preceded by Nelly Olin (Environment)
Succeeded by Jean-Louis Borloo (Ecology, Energy, Sustainable Development and Sea)
Mayor of Bordeaux
Assumed office
8 October 2006
Preceded by Hugues Martin
In office
19 June 1995 – 13 December 2004
Preceded by Jacques Chaban-Delmas
Succeeded by Hugues Martin
Spokesperson of the Government
In office
20 March 1986 – 10 May 1988
Prime Minister Jacques Chirac
Preceded by Georgina Dufoix
Succeeded by Claude Évin
Minister of the Budget
In office
20 March 1986 – 10 May 1988
Prime Minister Jacques Chirac
Preceded by Henri Emmanuelli
Succeeded by Pierre Bérégovoy
Personal details
Born Alain Marie Juppé
(1945-08-15) 15 August 1945 (age 71)
Mont-de-Marsan, France
Political party Rally for the Republic (Before 2002)
Union for a Popular Movement (2002–2015)
Republicans (2015–present)
Spouse(s) Christine Leblond (1965–1993)
Isabelle Legrand-Bodin (1993–present)
Children 3
Alma mater École Normale Supérieure
Sciences Po
École nationale d'administration

Alain Marie Juppé (French: [alɛ̃ ʒype]; born 15 August 1945) is a French politician, and a member of The Republicans political party.

He was Prime Minister of France from 1995 to 1997 under President Jacques Chirac, during which period he faced major strikes that paralyzed the country, and became very unpopular. He left office after the victory of the left in the snap 1997 elections. He had previously served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1993 to 1995, and as Minister of the Budget and Spokesman for the Government from 1986 to 1988. He was President of the political party Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) from 2002 to 2004 and mayor of Bordeaux from 1995 to 2004.

After the ghost jobs affair in December 2004, Juppé suspended his political career until he was re-elected as Mayor of Bordeaux in October 2006, a position he retains as of 2016. He served briefly as Minister of State for Ecology and Sustainable Development in 2007, but resigned in June 2007 after failing in his bid to be re-elected in the 2007 legislative election. He was Minister of Defence and Veterans Affairs from 2010 to 2011 and Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2011 to 2012.

He announced in 2015 his intention to contest his party's primary election ahead of the 2017 presidential election. He came in second place in the first Republican presidential primary, and in the run-off, he lost to François Fillon.


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