Jean-Louis Debré
| Jean-Louis Debré | |
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Jean-Louis Debré in 2012
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| President of the Constitutional Council | |
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In office 5 March 2007 – 5 March 2016 |
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| Appointed by | Jacques Chirac |
| President |
Jacques Chirac Nicolas Sarkozy François Hollande |
| Preceded by | Pierre Mazeaud |
| Succeeded by | Laurent Fabius |
| President of the National Assembly | |
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In office 25 June 2002 – 2 March 2007 |
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| President | Jacques Chirac |
| Preceded by | Raymond Forni |
| Succeeded by | Patrick Ollier |
| French Interior Minister | |
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In office 18 May 1995 – 4 June 1997 |
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| President | Jacques Chirac |
| Prime Minister | Alain Juppé |
| Preceded by | Charles Pasqua |
| Succeeded by | Jean-Pierre Chevènement |
| Member of the French National Assembly for Eure (1st constituency) |
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In office 1 June 1997 – 5 March 2007 |
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| Preceded by | Françoise Charpentier |
| Succeeded by | Françoise Charpentier |
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In office 2 April 1986 – 18 June 1995 |
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| Succeeded by | Françoise Charpentier |
| Mayor of Évreux | |
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In office 18 March 2001 – 12 March 2007 |
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| Preceded by | Roland Plaisance |
| Succeeded by | Jean-Pierre Nicolas |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
30 September 1944 Toulouse, France |
| Nationality | French |
| Political party | The Republicans |
| Spouse(s) | Anne-Marie Debré (d. 2007) |
| Children | Charles Guillaume Marie-Victoire |
| Alma mater |
École nationale de la magistrature Sciences Po |
| Website | Website |
Jean-Louis Debré (born 30 September 1944) is a conservative French political figure. He was President of the National Assembly of France from 2002 to 2007 and was President of the Constitutional Council from 2007 to 2016.
Debré was born in Toulouse. The son of former Prime Minister Michel Debré, grandson of medicine professor Robert Debré, and brother of politician Bernard Debré, he was member of the Neo-Gaullist party Rally for the Republic (RPR) then of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP).
Jean-Louis Debré, outside politics, is a career judge.
Debré was first elected to the National Assembly in the 1986 parliamentary election; he was re-elected in 1988, 1993, 1997, and 2002 as a deputy from the first constituency of Eure. He was Minister of the Interior in Alain Juppé's governments (1995–1997), and has been criticized for having allowed the armed Corsican clandestine press conference, and was responsible for the controversial evacuation of Saint-Bernard church in Paris, which was occupied by illegal immigrants (so called sans-papiers) on hunger strikes.
He was elected as Mayor of Évreux in 2001, serving in that post until 2007.
He was leader of the RPR group in the National Assembly from 1997 to 2002 and then President of the National Assembly from 2002 to 2007. Faithful to President Chirac, he frequently criticized UMP leader Nicolas Sarkozy. He resigned as President of the National Assembly three months before the end of his tenure after he was appointed as President of the Constitutional Council by Chirac on 22 February 2007. He replaced Pierre Mazeaud in the latter position, and was replaced by Laurent Fabius in 2016.
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