Arnaud Montebourg

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Arnaud Montebourg
Minister of Productive Recovery
Incumbent
Assumed office 16 May 2012
President	François Hollande
Prime Minister	Jean-Marc Ayrault
Preceded by	Eric Besson
Personal details
Born	(1962-10-30) 30 October 1962 (age 49) Clamecy
Political party	Socialist Party
Spouse(s)	Audrey Pulvar
Alma mater	Pantheon-Sorbonne University Institute of Political Studies, Paris

Arnaud Montebourg (born October 30, 1962, in Clamecy, Nièvre) is a French politician, and a deputy of the fifth district of Saône-et-Loire to the French National Assembly for the Socialist Party. He has also been elected president of the local assembly of Saône et Loire after local elections in 2008. Montebourg was also candidate to the socialist presidential primary of 2011.

He has been named France's Minister of Industrial Renewal in the New French government appointed under Prime Minister of France Jean-Marc Ayrault in May 16, 2012.^[1]

Biography

He is the son of Michel Montebourg, a civil servant employed in the Ministry of Economy and Finances, and Leïla Ould Cadi, a professor of Algerian descent, who was born to a family of Wālis from Hachem, northern Algeria.^[2]

Arnaud Montebourg became an attorney following university. Together with the notable attorney Thierry Levy, he defended Christian Didier, charged in the 1994 slaying of René Bousquet.^[3] 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.^[4]

Politics

Together with Bastien François, a Professor of Political Science at the Sorbonne University, in 2001 Montebourg was the cofounder of the Convention pour la Vie 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.^[5]

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 January 18, 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."^[6] He was referring to the contradictory statements with regard to tax policy made by Royal's partner, François Hollande, who is also 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 apologize for embarrassing the Socialist Party^[7].

He 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).

Marriage and family

In 2010, celebrity magazines revealed that he was in a relationship with Audrey Pulvar, a French television journalist.

Political career

Governmental function

Minister of 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 (Became minister in may 2012). Elected in 1997, reelected in 2002, 2007.

General Council

President of the General Council of Saône-et-Loire : Since 2008.

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

References

External links

• (French) Personal website
• (French) Webpage from the National Assembly site
• Michael C. Behrent, "Stop the World": Arnaud Montebourg and "Deglobalization"(blog post)

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