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Éric Woerth | |
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 Woerth in 2008 | |
| Minister for Territorial Development, Decentralization and Housing | |
| In office 5 October 2025 – 12 October 2025 | |
| Prime Minister | Sébastien Lecornu |
| Preceded by | François Rebsamen(Territorial Development and Decentralization) Valérie Létard(Housing) |
| Succeeded by | Françoise Gatel(Regional Planning and Decentralization) Vincent Jeanbrun(Housing) |
| Member of theNational Assembly | |
| Assumed office 14 December 2010 | |
| Preceded by | Christian Patria |
| Parliamentary group | UMP(2010-2022) LREM(since 2022) |
| Constituency | Oise's4th constituency |
| In office 19 December 2005 – 19 July 2007 | |
| Preceded by | Christian Patria |
| Succeeded by | Christian Patria |
| Parliamentary group | UMP |
| Constituency | Oise's4th constituency |
| In office 19 June 2002 – 30 April 2004 | |
| Preceded by | Christian Patria |
| Succeeded by | Christian Patria |
| Parliamentary group | UMP |
| Constituency | Oise's4th constituency |
| Quaestor of theNational Assembly | |
| In office 29 June 2022 – 19 July 2024 | |
| President | Yaël Braun-Pivet |
| Preceded by | Laurianne Rossi |
| Succeeded by | Christine Pirès-Beaune |
| Chairman of theFinance Committee of the National Assembly | |
| In office 29 June 2017 – 21 June 2022 | |
| Preceded by | Giles Carrez |
| Succeeded by | Éric Coquerel |
| Mayor ofChantilly | |
| In office 23 June 1995 – 6 July 2017 | |
| Preceded by | Philippe Courboin |
| Succeeded by | Isabelle Wojtowiez |
| Minister for Labor, Solidarity and the civil service | |
| In office 22 March 2010 – 13 November 2010 | |
| President | Nicolas Sarkozy |
| Prime Minister | François Fillon |
| Preceded by | Xavier Darcos(Labor) Himself(civil service) |
| Succeeded by | Xavier Bertrand(Labor) Roselyne Bachelot(Solidarity) François Baroin(civil service) |
| Minister for Budget, Public Accounts, the civil service, and State Reform[a] | |
| In office 18 May 2007 – 22 March 2010 | |
| President | Nicolas Sarkozy |
| Prime Minister | François Fillon |
| Preceded by | Jean-François Copé |
| Succeeded by | François Baroin |
| Secretary of State for State Reform | |
| In office 31 March 2004 – 31 May 2005 | |
| President | Jacques Chirac |
| Prime Minister | Jean-Pierre Raffarin |
| Preceded by | Henri Plagnol |
| Succeeded by | Jean-François Copé(indirectly) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1956-01-29)29 January 1956 (age 69) |
| Political party | Renaissance |
| Spouse | Florence Henry |
| Children | 2 |
| Alma mater | Panthéon-Assas University Sciences Po,HEC Paris |
Éric Woerth (French pronunciation:[eʁikwœʁt]; born 29 January 1956) is a French politician ofRenaissance who served in several positions in thegovernment ofPrime MinisterFrançois Fillon, including as Secretary of State for State Reform (2004–2005), as Minister for budget and public accounts (2007–2010) and briefly as Minister for Labor. In October 2025, he briefly served as Minister for territorial development, decentralization and housing inPrime MinisterSébastien Lecornu's government.[1]
Woerth was born inCreil,Oise. He studied atParis 2 Panthéon-Assas University,HEC Paris andSciences Po.
Municipal Council
Mayor ofChantilly : 1995-2004 (Resignation) / And since 2005. Reelected in 2001, 2005, 2008.
Deputy-mayor of Chantilly : 2004–2005.
Municipal councillor of Chantilly : Since 1995. Reelected in 2001, 2008.
Community of communes Council
President of theCommunauté de communes of the aire cantilenne[check spelling] : Since 1995. Reelected in 2001, 2008.
Member of theCommunauté de communes of the aire cantilienne : Since 1995. Reelected in 2001, 2008.
Vice-president of the Regional Council of Picardy : 1992–1998.
Regional councillor ofPicardy : 1986-2002 (Resignation). Reelected in 1992, 1998.
Woerth was electedDeputy forOise in2002. In parliament, he served on theFinance Committee from 2002 until 2004.[2]
In addition to his parliamentary work, Woerth was the treasurer of theUMP until he resigned in July 2010.[3]
Woerth wasstate secretary for state reform in the government[4] ofPrime MinisterJean-Pierre Raffarin from 2004 to 2005.
Woerth founded the "club de la boussole", a group of UMPdéputés, and is a member of theRéformateurs, a liberal trend within the UMP.
Woerth was the Minister for the Budget, Public Accounts and the Civil Service from 2007 until 2010, in the government ofPrime MinisterFrançois Fillon.[5] In this capacity, he oversaw French authorities obtaining Swiss bank account data amid a push to catch tax cheats.[6]
Woerth later served asMinister of Labor, Solidarity and Civil Service from March until November 2010.[7]
In parliament, Woerth served on theCommittee on Foreign Affairs from 2010 until 2012 before moving to theFinance Committee in 2012.[8] In addition to his committee assignments, he has been a member of theFranco-German Parliamentary Assembly since 2019.[9]
In the Republicans'2016 presidential primaries, Woerth endorsedFrançois Fillon as the party's candidate for the office ofPresident of France.[10] In the Republicans'2017 leadership election, he endorsedLaurent Wauquiez.[11]
In July 2019, Woerth was one of the few LR members who abstained from a vote on the French ratification of theEuropean Union'sComprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) withCanada.[12]
Together withBenjamin Dirx, Woerth published a non-legally binding report in 2019 which garnered international attention for its recommendations on preventingshort-sellers and activists from unfairly destabilising French corporates. These included widening the disclosures of short positions toderivatives instruments, pushing for more transparency around the borrowing and lending of stock, and investigating whether market functions are jeopardised once short selling reaches a certain volume of shares.[13][14]
Ahead of the2022 presidential elections, Woerth publicly declared his support for incumbentEmmanuel Macron and criticized the Republicans’ candidateValérie Pécresse.[15][16]
Following the2022 legislative election, Woerth stood as a candidate for theNational Assembly's presidency;[17] in an internal vote, he lost againstYaël Braun-Pivet.[18]
On 5 July 2010, following its investigations on theLiliane Bettencourt and Éric Woerth political controversy, the online newspaperMediapart revealed a report where Claire Thibout, an ex-accountant working forLiliane Bettencourt, accused Nicolas Sarkozy and Woerth of receiving illegal campaign donations in 2007, in cash.[19][20] TheCanard enchaîné andMarianne weeklies later revealed that Woerth authorized the sale of theCompiegne racetrack to a group with close connections to theUMP, for a very low price and through an improper procedure.[21] He was placed under formal investigation by theCour de Justice de la République for that sale. All charges against him were dismissed in 2015.[22][circular reference]
He has been put under investigation in 2018 in thealleged Libyan financing in the 2007 French presidential election and in 2021 in theBernard Tapie case.
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