| Patrick Ollier | |
|---|---|
| Minister for Relationships with Parliament | |
| Incumbent | |
| Assumed office 14 November 2010 |
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| Prime Minister | François Fillon |
| Preceded by | Henri de Raincourt |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 17 December 1944 Périgueux, France |
| Political party | Union for a Popular Movement (2002–present) |
| Domestic partner | Michèle Alliot-Marie |
Patrick Ollier (born 17 December 1944 in Périgueux, Dordogne) 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.
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He is also the partner of Michèle Alliot-Marie, 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.
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.
Ollier, following General de Gaulle's social positions, is the inventor of the "Work's dividend" who has been taken back in many Government decisions and parliamentary works.
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.
Patrick Ollier took often clear position: signature of the anti-PACS 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.
| Political offices | ||
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| Preceded by Jean-Louis Debré |
President of the National Assembly 2007 |
Succeeded by Bernard Accoyer |
Governmental functions
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.