Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Juppe France will seek to unite the Arab leaders opposed

The highest levels of French politics, mostly reserved for a select group of technocrats, is unusual in retaining its leadership in the forefront of decision of the country, despite the passing years. It is common to see mayors become ministers and leaders who have taken up positions with a certain prime minister back into the public arena with the passage of time, other jobs or even the same but under different bosses orders.

It's what you just happen to Alain Juppe after changes in government approved Sunday by surprise by the president, Nicolas Sarkozy. Juppe is the new Minister of Foreign Affairs, the French foreign minister, replacing Michele Alliot-Marie, who submitted his resignation by Christmas trip he made last year to visit the Tunisian dictator Ben Ali.

However, Juppe is not new in politics, but an "old" conservative Gaullist party known to have been able to work with two great heavyweights of French politics and political enemies faced as former President Jacques Chirac and current President Sarkozy . Juppe served as foreign minister when Chirac was president between 1993 and 1995.

Now go back to the same position with Sarkozy. Juppe has earned the support of the president to negotiate with Arab countries out of the crisis in the Maghreb and the Middle East as the first political front that has France in order to lead the international prosecution of the Gaddafi regime ahead even of States U.S.

and UK. Juppe's policy discretion has been his best weapon to take advantage of the passage of time, remove the prohibition policy that was condemned in the past and tanned back into the public domain in Bordeaux achieving success as one of the most popular and highly regarded Mayors of France.

Until last year, Juppe had career as mayor of Bordeaux and kept discreet in his local feud. Then in November, Sarkozy called him to enter the conservative government of Prime Minister François Fillon to assume the defense portfolio. Yesterday, Sarkozy turned to award him the important position of Foreign Minister to direct the foreign policy of France in the world.

Alain Juppe, a former prime minister Jacques Chirac from 1995 to 1997 he was the Dauphin of Chirac who never hid his desire to stand for election. "He is a man who works hard, quietly and behind the scenes. The race likely to stand for presidential elections were aborted by Chirac and now most likely is that Sarkozy is so if re-election in 2012.

But you never know, even Juppe could be a candidate next year if Sarkozy in the polls plummets, "said La Vanguardia.'s Sources close to the French Government in Paris. Prime Minister of France between 1995 and 1997, seven years later was convicted of embezzlement of public funds, which disqualified him for a year for the exercise of active politics.

Alain Juppe has received in recent months, special attention by Nicolas Sarkozy. convicted of embezzlement of public funds Juppe, born 1945 in the French town of Mont-de-Marsan (Landes in the southwest), left the mayor of Bordeaux in December 2004 after a court to sentence him for embezzlement of funds from the City of Paris in the late eighties and early nineties.

The plot involved the creation of fake jobs with salaries that were paid by the Consistory, the benefit of the late neo-Gaullist party bringing together for the Republic (RPR), led by Chirac, then mayor of the capital. Juppé , who was his chief financial officer, was sentenced to 14 months imprisonment and a free performance year disqualification from public office.

The former French prime minister between 1995 and 1997 was presented to the elections with the same list which won in 2001. During this time, Juppe was spent teaching at a university in Montreal (Canada). He returned to Bordeaux after the year he turned to his disqualification for public office and won as mayor of the city.

Before his conviction, Juppe was regarded as the dolphin Chirac, who spoke to him once as "the most brilliant among us." Dubbed by some as "walking computer" for his mathematical brain and its cold efficiency, Juppe began his political career as a speechwriter for the current president in 1976.

Alain Juppe is one of the most elite class of the French politicians that is characterized by being well prepared. Is a graduate of the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris and in classical literature, a student at the prestigious Ecole Nationale d'Administration (ENA), Air Force lieutenant colonel in the reserves and citizen of the Air Force, as contained in the biography consulted by this day in the documentation of the French Government.

He was director of finance at the City of Paris between 1980 and 1983, Minister of Jacques Chirac in 1976. He has been Minister of Defense (2010), Ecology and Land (2007), prime minister (1995-1997), Minister of Foreign Affairs (1993-1995) under the leadership of President Chirac and Minister for the Budget between 1986 and 1988 .

He was secretary general of the neo-Gaullist party Rally for the Republic (RPR), Chirac presided over, then came to the Foreign Office, and in 1995, when Chirac was elected head of state for the first time, chose him as prime minister. Her last political work has been chairing the UMP conservative ruling party, with which Chirac wanted to unify his former party and other formations on the right, who were in crisis before the political ascension of the young Sarkozy became president after taking mayor, as the case of Neuilly-sur-Seine (the richest city in western France, Paris).

Email Juppé resigned as president of the UMP with a gentle call to "cease fire" among his people. Sentenced to 10 years of ineligibility in January, rather than resign immediately, Chirac was persuaded to throw a few months, pending an appeal against the verdict. However, successive election defeats have left the UMP in 16% of the popular vote and Juppe has exhausted his last chance to serve as a shield for president.

Technocratic, educated at the elite Ecole Nationale d'Administration, your opponents will also consider the "most intelligent" politicians who gave the French right. Without the political patronage of Jacques Chirac, probably would not have come to exercise power for some time, attempted a policy of social reforms and their hard efforts were consumed in two short years.

Electorally defeated by former Socialist Prime Minister Lionel Jospin in 1997, lost the executive branch. The recovery of the right in 2002 could have meant another chance for him, but always in the shadow of Chirac and subordinate to his mentor. Nicolas Sarkozy Alain Juppe now expected to strengthen the position of France to the changes experienced by the Arab world and in a country where more than five million Arabs, who mostly profess the Muslim religion.

But also be on the table management Juppé release of a group of French journalists still being held by Al Qaeda and another group of French nuclear company employees to be detained somewhere in Mali by Al Qaeda Islamic Maghreb (AQIM). In the case of French hostages in the past two years in sub-Saharan Africa, Sarkozy has reiterated that it will not negotiate with terrorists even though last year's murder of the hostage Michel Germaneau.

Juppe to be seen whether this policy remains non-trading or if France gives up and just negotiating to allow the release of their compatriots. Another aim to be the head of French diplomacy will be to find a balance with the new transitional Arab governments that are being built in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya to avoid the imposition of the theses of the United States and United Kingdom to try protect their interests in the oil sector, but do not have in their countries problems of social integration with the Arab population.

France still has not resolved the integration of French Muslims sometimes stigmatized and associated with violence and insecurity in major cities bedrooms of banlieues (suburbs) - and Juppe will have to negotiate a democratic way with the leaders of the popular new wave emerged in the Arab countries who have rebelled against tyranny and who once were former French colonies, as the case of Tunisia and Algeria.

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