Alain Juppe
Alain Juppé (born August 15, 1945) is a French politician, and was Prime Minister of France from 1995 to 1997.
Early life
Alain Juppé was born in Mont-de-Marsan (Landes).
Education
Political career
Alain Juppé was a minister under Jacques Chirac's government in the 1980s, and was made Édouard Balladur's Foreign Minister in 1993. He succeded him as Prime Minister in 1995, also becoming president of the Rassemblement pour la République (RPR) political party. The RPR lost elections in 1997, and he was succeeded by Lionel Jospin.
Member of the National Assembly (as representative of Paris from 1986 to 1997, then representative of Gironde), he was electef Mayor of Bordeaux in 1995, succeding former Primer Minister Jacques Chaban-Delmas.
In 2004, Alain Juppé was tried for the felony of abuse of public funds, when he was head of the RPR and the RPR illegally used personnel provided by the City of Paris for running its operations. He was convicted and sentenced to a 18-month suspended jail sentence, the deprivation of civic rights for 5 years, and the deprivation of the right to run for political office for 10 years. He has appealed against the decision. (See Corruption scandals in the Paris region)
See also: List of Foreign Ministers of France, List of Prime Ministers of France
- Alain Juppé - Prime Minister
- Hervé de Charette - Minister of Foreign Affairs
- Charles Millon - Minister of Defense
- Jean-Louis Debré - Minister of the Interior
- Alain Madelin - Minister of Economy and Finance
- Jacques Toubon - Minister of Justice
- Yves Galland - Minister of Industry
- François Bayrou - Minister of National Education, Vocational Training, Higher Education, and Research
- Jacquet Barrot - Minister of Labour, Social Dialogue, and Participation
- Pierre Pasquini - Minister of Veterans and War Victims
- Philippe Douste-Blazy - Minister of Culture
- Philippe Vasseur - Minister of Agriculture, Fish, and Food
- Corinne Lepage - Minister of Environment
- Jean-Jacques de Peretti - Minister of Overseas
- Bernard Pons - Minister of Transport, Regional Planning, and Equipment
- Roger Romani - Minister of Relations with Parliament
- Elisabeth Hubert - Minister of Public Health and Sickness Insurance
- Pierre-André Périssol - Minister of Housing
- François de Panafieu - Minister of Tourism
- François Fillon - Minister of Information Technologies and Post
- Jean Puech - Minister of Civil Service
- Jean-Pierre Raffarin - Minister of Small and Medium-sized Companies, Commerce, and Craft Industry
- Claude Goasguen - Minister of Reform of the State, Decentralization, and Citizenship
- Colette Codaccioni - Minister of Solidarity between Generations
- Eric Raoult - Minister of Integration and Fight against Exclusion
- Jean Arthuis - Minister of Planning
Changes
- 25 August 1995 - Jean Arthuis succeeds Madelin as Minister of Economy and Finance, remaining also Minister of Planning.
- Alain Juppé - Prime Minister
- Hervé de Charette - Minister of Foreign Affairs
- Charles Millon - Minister of Defense
- Jean-Louis Debré - Minister of the Interior
- Jean Arthuis - Minister of Economy and Finance
- Jacques Toubon - Minister of Justice
- Franck Borotra - Minister of Industry, Posts, and Telecommunications
- François Bayrou - Minister of National Education, Vocational Training, Higher Education, and Research
- Jacques Barrot - Minister of Labour and Social Affairs
- Philippe Douste-Blazy - Minister of Culture
- Philippe Vasseur - Minister of Agriculture, Fish, and Food
- Guy Drut - Minister of Youth and Sport
- Corinne Lepage - Minister of Environment
- Bernard Pons - Minister of Transport, Housing, Tourism, and Equipment
- Roger Romani - Minister of Relations with Parliament
- Dominique Perben - Minister of Civil Service, Reform of the State, and Decentralization
- Jean-Claude Gaudin - Minister of City and Regional Planning
- Jean-Pierre Raffarin - Minister of Small and Medium-sized Companies, Commerce, and Craft Industry
