Patrick Ollier
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Patrick Ollier is a French MP
for the UMP
party and the Mayor
of Rueil-Malmaison
. He was briefly the President of the National Assembly in 2007. He is the partner of Michèle Alliot-Marie
, Minister of Foreign and European Affairs in the government of François Fillon
.
He was elected on 16 June 2002, representing the Hauts-de-Seine
, near Paris. He is president of the French National Assembly
's committee on Economic Affairs, the Environment, and Territory. He is interested in renewable energies, and Africa, being head of the French-Libyan friendship group in the National Assembly.
On January 14, 2007 he announced that he would be candidate to the presidency of the National Assembly, replacing Jean-Louis Debré
, who would join the Constitutional Council. He ended up as the only candidate, as the opposition refused to take part in the vote, and was elected on 7 March 2007. However, and although he had expressed the wish to remain President of the Assembly, he was not chosen by the UMP group as its candidate for the presidency after the legislative election, and was succeeded by Bernard Accoyer
on June 26 of the same year.
, who was the French minister of Foreign and European Affairs in the Government of François Fillon
from November 14, 2010 to February 27, 2011.
Mr Ollier is an Honorary member of the Rotary Club of Rueil Malmaison and a public officer.
social positions, is the inventor of the "Work's dividend" who has been taken back in many Government decisions and parliamentary works.
petition (civilian agreement of common life for hetero- and homosexual), opposition to the ("IVG" - Voluntary Pregnancy Interruption) (abortion) reform in 2000. He refused to acknowledge the date of 19 march 1962 as "Journée nationale du souvenir et de recueillement à la mémoire des victimes civiles et militaires de la guerre d'Algérie et des combats du Maroc et de Tunisie". (National Remembrance Day in memory of civilian and military victims of the Algerian war and the combats in Morocco and Tunisia)
In June and July 2006, he worked actively for the privatization
of the French public company of gas Gaz de France
and its fusion with Suez to form GDF Suez
.
Minister for Relationships with Parliament : Since 2010.
Electoral mandates
National Assembly of France
President of the National Assembly of France : March–June 2007.
Vice-president of the National Assembly of France : 1998-2002.
Member of the National Assembly of France for Hauts-de-Seine
(7th constituency) : 2002-2010 (He became minister in 2010). Elected in 2002, reelected in 2007.
Member of the National Assembly of France for Hautes-Alpes
(2nd constituency) : 1988-2002. Elected in 1988, reelected in 1993, 1997.
President of the Economic Affairs Committee in the National Assembly : Since 2009-2010 (Became minister in 2010).
President of the Economic Affairs, Environment and Territory Committee in the National Assembly : 2002-2009.
General Council
General councillor of Hautes-Alpes
: 1992-2001 (Resignation). Reelected in 1998.
Municipal Council
Mayor of Rueil-Malmaison
: Since 2004. Reelected in 2008.
Deputy-mayor of Rueil-Malmaison
: 1983-1989 / 2001-2004 (Resignation).
Municipal councillor of Rueil-Malmaison
: 1983-1989 / Since 2001. Reelected in 2001, 2008.
Mayor of La Salle les Alpes
: 1989-2001. Reelected in 1995.
Municipal councillor of La Salle les Alpes
: 1989-2001. Reelected in 1995.
Member of Parliament
A Member of Parliament is a representative of the voters to a :parliament. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, the term applies specifically to members of the lower house, as upper houses often have a different title, such as senate, and thus also have different titles for its members,...
for the UMP
Union for a Popular Movement
The Union for a Popular Movement is a centre-right political party in France, and one of the two major contemporary political parties in the country along with the center-left Socialist Party...
party and the Mayor
Mayor
In many countries, a Mayor is the highest ranking officer in the municipal government of a town or a large urban city....
of Rueil-Malmaison
Rueil-Malmaison
Rueil-Malmaison is a commune in the western suburbs of Paris, in the Hauts-de-Seine department of France. It is located 12.6 kilometers from the center of Paris.-Name:...
. He was briefly the President of the National Assembly in 2007. He is the partner of Michèle Alliot-Marie
Michèle Alliot-Marie
Michèle Jeanne Honorine Alliot-Marie, born 10 September 1946 and nicknamed MAM, is a French politician of the Union for a Popular Movement . A member of all but one right-wing governments of the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s, she was the first woman in France to hold the portfolios of Defense , the...
, Minister of Foreign and European Affairs in the government of François Fillon
François Fillon
François Charles Armand Fillon is the Prime Minister of France. He was appointed to that office by President Nicolas Sarkozy on 17 May 2007. He served initially until 13 November 2010 when he resigned from being prime minister before a planned cabinet reshuffle.On 14 November 2010, Sarkozy...
.
He was elected on 16 June 2002, representing the Hauts-de-Seine
Hauts-de-Seine
Hauts-de-Seine is designated number 92 of the 101 départements in France. It is part of the Île-de-France region, and covers the western inner suburbs of Paris...
, near Paris. He is president of the French National Assembly
French National Assembly
The French National Assembly is the lower house of the bicameral Parliament of France under the Fifth Republic. The upper house is the Senate ....
's committee on Economic Affairs, the Environment, and Territory. He is interested in renewable energies, and Africa, being head of the French-Libyan friendship group in the National Assembly.
On January 14, 2007 he announced that he would be candidate to the presidency of the National Assembly, replacing Jean-Louis Debré
Jean-Louis Debré
Jean-Louis Debré is a conservative French political figure. He was President of the National Assembly of France from 2002 to 2007 and has been President of the Constitutional Council since 2007.-Biography:Debré was born in Toulouse...
, who would join the Constitutional Council. He ended up as the only candidate, as the opposition refused to take part in the vote, and was elected on 7 March 2007. However, and although he had expressed the wish to remain President of the Assembly, he was not chosen by the UMP group as its candidate for the presidency after the legislative election, and was succeeded by Bernard Accoyer
Bernard Accoyer
Bernard Accoyer is a French politician who is currently the President of the National Assembly of France, as well as the Mayor of Annecy-le-Vieux.-Biography:...
on June 26 of the same year.
Private life
He is also the partner of Michèle Alliot-MarieMichèle Alliot-Marie
Michèle Jeanne Honorine Alliot-Marie, born 10 September 1946 and nicknamed MAM, is a French politician of the Union for a Popular Movement . A member of all but one right-wing governments of the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s, she was the first woman in France to hold the portfolios of Defense , the...
, who was the French minister of Foreign and European Affairs in the Government of François Fillon
François Fillon
François Charles Armand Fillon is the Prime Minister of France. He was appointed to that office by President Nicolas Sarkozy on 17 May 2007. He served initially until 13 November 2010 when he resigned from being prime minister before a planned cabinet reshuffle.On 14 November 2010, Sarkozy...
from November 14, 2010 to February 27, 2011.
Mr Ollier is an Honorary member of the Rotary Club of Rueil Malmaison and a public officer.
Public life
In the same time Ollier is Mayor in the city of Rueil Malmaison. Rueil is a high-class suburb of Paris, and a municipality which does not respect the "SRU law" (see chapter hereunder), a French law forcing municipalities to build 20% of social apartments. He is also, since March 2007, the President of the Parliamentary Chamber in France.Parliamentary work
Ollier, following General de Gaulle'sCharles de Gaulle
Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle was a French general and statesman who led the Free French Forces during World War II. He later founded the French Fifth Republic in 1958 and served as its first President from 1959 to 1969....
social positions, is the inventor of the "Work's dividend" who has been taken back in many Government decisions and parliamentary works.
Renewables energies
In 2005, during a debate on energy law, Patrick Ollier presented an amendment on wind power known as the "Ollier Amendment." It aimed to raise the minimum electrical output of wind farms that qualify for automatic electricity repurchase by the EDF to those that produce more than 30MW (from the previous 12MW.) It also limited construction of wind farms to designated areas that were to be defined later. This caused an outcry from various environmental organizations. When faced with this opposition, the amendment was withdrawn.SRU Law
- M. Ollier constantly worked to amend the SRU law (solidarité et renouvellement urbains) (solidarity and urban renewal) of December 2000, and specially to amend and decrease the quota of 20 % of social apartments forced to the French municipalities.
- Ending January 2006, the SRU law was decreased by the National Assembly of the French Parliament by the adoption of a Patrick Ollier and Gérard Hamel's amendment, in first lecture (which means in the Parliamentary procedure that it has the governmental support) on a law project (loi ENL). This amendment Ollier-Hamel allowed to consider some real-estate operation to social accession to property as some social apartments. The French Senate suppressed these measures on April 2006.
- On May 30, 2006, in the National Assembly, on a second-lecture of the law project (ENL), Patrick Ollier deponed again one amendment against the 20% quota of social apartments (logements sociaux) forced to 740 French municipalities.
Africa
- Patrick Ollier is head of the France-LibyaLibyaLibya is an African country in the Maghreb region of North Africa bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to the east, Sudan to the southeast, Chad and Niger to the south, and Algeria and Tunisia to the west....
friendship group of the French Parliament. He made several visits in that country, sometimes for the Élysée or the Quai d'OrsayQuai d'OrsayThe Quai d'Orsay is a quai in the VIIe arrondissement of Paris, part of the left bank of the Seine, and the name of the street along it. The Quai becomes the Quai Anatole France east of the Palais Bourbon, and the Quai de Branly west of the Pont de l'Alma.The French Ministry of Foreign Affairs is...
. Patrick Ollier's relations with Arab regimes, particularly with General Muammar GaddafiMuammar GaddafiMuammar Muhammad Abu Minyar Gaddafi or "September 1942" 20 October 2011), commonly known as Muammar Gaddafi or Colonel Gaddafi, was the official ruler of the Libyan Arab Republic from 1969 to 1977 and then the "Brother Leader" of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya from 1977 to 2011.He seized power in a...
are denounced in February 2011 by the French press and foreign . In its February 24 edition of the newspaper LibérationLibérationLibération is a French daily newspaper founded in Paris by Jean-Paul Sartre and Serge July in 1973 in the wake of the protest movements of May 1968. Originally a leftist newspaper, it has undergone a number of shifts during the 1980s and 1990s...
assert that Patrick Ollier "served as an intermediary for the sale of arms" between the FranceFranceThe French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
and LibyaLibyaLibya is an African country in the Maghreb region of North Africa bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to the east, Sudan to the southeast, Chad and Niger to the south, and Algeria and Tunisia to the west....
.
- He has been officially visiting other Arab countries like TunisiaTunisiaTunisia , officially the Tunisian RepublicThe long name of Tunisia in other languages used in the country is: , is the northernmost country in Africa. It is a Maghreb country and is bordered by Algeria to the west, Libya to the southeast, and the Mediterranean Sea to the north and east. Its area...
. In February 2011, he and his partner Michele Alliot-Marie were accused by Le Canard enchaînéLe Canard enchaînéLe Canard enchaîné is a satirical newspaper published weekly in France. Founded in 1915, it features investigative journalism and leaks from sources inside the French government, the French political world and the French business world, as well as many jokes and humorous cartoons.-Early...
of having use a private jet belonging to friend of Tunisian dictator Ben Ali during the Tunisian Revolution
- Following Réseau Voltaire, he would have helped ElfElfAn elf is a being of Germanic mythology. The elves were originally thought of as a race of divine beings endowed with magical powers, which they use both for the benefit and the injury of mankind...
to plant in NigeriaNigeriaNigeria , officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a federal constitutional republic comprising 36 states and its Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. The country is located in West Africa and shares land borders with the Republic of Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, and Niger in...
.
- In the Clearstream affair 2ClearstreamClearstream Banking S.A. is the clearing and settlement division of Deutsche Börse, based in Luxembourg and Frankfurt. Clearstream was created in January 2000 through the merger of Cedel International and Deutsche Börse Clearing...
, his name has been cited in the meeting of the 9 janvier 2004 between Dominique de VillepinDominique de VillepinDominique Marie François René Galouzeau de Villepin is a French politician who served as the Prime Minister of France from 31 May 2005 to 17 May 2007....
, Philippe RondotPhilippe RondotPhilippe Rondot is a French retired general, formerly an important personality of the French intelligence. He worked for both the domestic intelligence DST and the foreign intelligence DGSE and was councilor to several Defence ministers .-Career:Philippe Rondot was born in 1936 in a family of...
and Jean-Louis GergorinJean-Louis GergorinJean-Louis Gergorin is a former French diplomat and former executive vice president of EADS – the giant European aerospace company that controls Airbus. He is also the whistleblower of the Clearstream Affair; a money laundering scandal that has garnered international attention and disturbed the...
in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Jean-Louis Gergorin cited then «excessives links» of Patrick Ollier with Arab countries. Le général Philippe Rondot aurait délibérément caché au ministre de la DéfenseMichèle Alliot-MarieMichèle Jeanne Honorine Alliot-Marie, born 10 September 1946 and nicknamed MAM, is a French politician of the Union for a Popular Movement . A member of all but one right-wing governments of the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s, she was the first woman in France to hold the portfolios of Defense , the...
que le nom de son conjoint avait été mentionné. Selon son témoignage, il avait reçu comme consigne de Dominique de Villepin de «ne rien communiquer au ministère de la Défense». Toutefois, il semble que son nom ne figurait pas dans les listings truqués de ClearstreamClearstreamClearstream Banking S.A. is the clearing and settlement division of Deutsche Börse, based in Luxembourg and Frankfurt. Clearstream was created in January 2000 through the merger of Cedel International and Deutsche Börse Clearing...
. Patrick Ollier s'est constitué partie civile dans ce dossier.
Official positions
Patrick Ollier took often clear position: signature of the anti-PACSPacte civil de solidarité
In France, a pacte civil de solidarité commonly known as a PACS /paks/ , is a form of civil union between two adults for organising their joint life. It brings rights and responsibilities, but less so than marriage...
petition (civilian agreement of common life for hetero- and homosexual), opposition to the ("IVG" - Voluntary Pregnancy Interruption) (abortion) reform in 2000. He refused to acknowledge the date of 19 march 1962 as "Journée nationale du souvenir et de recueillement à la mémoire des victimes civiles et militaires de la guerre d'Algérie et des combats du Maroc et de Tunisie". (National Remembrance Day in memory of civilian and military victims of the Algerian war and the combats in Morocco and Tunisia)
In June and July 2006, he worked actively for the privatization
Privatization
Privatization is the incidence or process of transferring ownership of a business, enterprise, agency or public service from the public sector to the private sector or to private non-profit organizations...
of the French public company of gas Gaz de France
Gaz de France
Gaz de France was a French company which produced, transported and sold natural gas around the world, especially in France, its main market. The company was also particularly active in Belgium, the United Kingdom, Germany, and other European countries. Through its part-owned Belgian subsidiary SPE...
and its fusion with Suez to form GDF Suez
GDF Suez
GDF Suez S.A. is a French multinational energy company which operates in the fields of electricity generation and distribution, natural gas and renewable energy. The world's largest utility after taking control of Britain's International Power, the company was initially formed by the merger of Gaz...
.
Political career
Governmental functionsMinister for Relationships with Parliament : Since 2010.
Electoral mandates
National Assembly of France
President of the National Assembly of France : March–June 2007.
Vice-president of the National Assembly of France : 1998-2002.
Member of the National Assembly of France for Hauts-de-Seine
Hauts-de-Seine
Hauts-de-Seine is designated number 92 of the 101 départements in France. It is part of the Île-de-France region, and covers the western inner suburbs of Paris...
(7th constituency) : 2002-2010 (He became minister in 2010). Elected in 2002, reelected in 2007.
Member of the National Assembly of France for Hautes-Alpes
Hautes-Alpes
Hautes-Alpes is a department in southeastern France named after the Alps mountain range.- History :Hautes-Alpes is one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on 4 March 1790...
(2nd constituency) : 1988-2002. Elected in 1988, reelected in 1993, 1997.
President of the Economic Affairs Committee in the National Assembly : Since 2009-2010 (Became minister in 2010).
President of the Economic Affairs, Environment and Territory Committee in the National Assembly : 2002-2009.
General Council
General councillor of Hautes-Alpes
Hautes-Alpes
Hautes-Alpes is a department in southeastern France named after the Alps mountain range.- History :Hautes-Alpes is one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on 4 March 1790...
: 1992-2001 (Resignation). Reelected in 1998.
Municipal Council
Mayor of Rueil-Malmaison
Rueil-Malmaison
Rueil-Malmaison is a commune in the western suburbs of Paris, in the Hauts-de-Seine department of France. It is located 12.6 kilometers from the center of Paris.-Name:...
: Since 2004. Reelected in 2008.
Deputy-mayor of Rueil-Malmaison
Rueil-Malmaison
Rueil-Malmaison is a commune in the western suburbs of Paris, in the Hauts-de-Seine department of France. It is located 12.6 kilometers from the center of Paris.-Name:...
: 1983-1989 / 2001-2004 (Resignation).
Municipal councillor of Rueil-Malmaison
Rueil-Malmaison
Rueil-Malmaison is a commune in the western suburbs of Paris, in the Hauts-de-Seine department of France. It is located 12.6 kilometers from the center of Paris.-Name:...
: 1983-1989 / Since 2001. Reelected in 2001, 2008.
Mayor of La Salle les Alpes
La Salle les Alpes
La Salle-les-Alpes is a commune in the Hautes-Alpes department in southeastern France.-Population:-References:*...
: 1989-2001. Reelected in 1995.
Municipal councillor of La Salle les Alpes
La Salle les Alpes
La Salle-les-Alpes is a commune in the Hautes-Alpes department in southeastern France.-Population:-References:*...
: 1989-2001. Reelected in 1995.