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| Minister of State,Minister of Ecology, Energy, Sustainable Development and the Sea[a] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| In office 19 June 2007 – 13 November 2010 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Prime Minister | François Fillon | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Alain Juppé | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Minister of the Economy, Finance and Employment | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| In office 18 May 2007 – 19 June 2007 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Prime Minister | François Fillon | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Thierry Breton(Economy and Finance) Himself(Employment) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Christine Lagarde | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Minister of Employment, Social Cohesion and Housing[b] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| In office 31 March 2004 – 15 May 2007 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Prime Minister | Jean-Pierre Raffarin Dominique de Villepin | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | François Fillon | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Himself(Employment) Xavier Bertrand(Social Relations) Christine Boutin(Housing) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Minister Delegate for the City and Urban Renovation[c] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| In office 7 May 2002 – 30 March 2004 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Prime Minister | Jean-Pierre Raffarin | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Claude Bartolone | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Marc-Philippe Daubresse | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Mayor ofValenciennes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| In office 24 March 1989 – 7 May 2002 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Olivier Marlière | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Dominique Riquet | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | Jean-Louis Marie Borloo (1951-04-07)7 April 1951 (age 74) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Political party | UDI (2012–present) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Other political affiliations | GÉ (1990–1991) UDF (1998–2002) UMP (2002–2011) PRV (2002–2017) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Education | Lycée Janson-de-Sailly | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Alma mater | Panthéon-Sorbonne University HEC Paris | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Occupation | Lawyer •Politician | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Jean-Louis Marie Borloo (French pronunciation:[ʒɑ̃lwimaʁibɔʁlo]; born 7 April 1951) is a French politician and lawyer who served as the inaugural president of theUnion of Democrats and Independents (UDI) from 2012 to 2014. In government, he wasMinister Delegate for the City and Urban Renewal from 2002 to 2004 andMinister of Employment, Social Cohesion and Housing from 2004 to 2007 under PresidentJacques Chirac, andMinister of the Economy, Finance and Employment in 2007 andMinister of Ecology, Energy, Sustainable Development and the Sea from 2007 until 2010 under PresidentNicolas Sarkozy.[1]
Jean-Louis Marie Borloo was born in Paris. His parents were Lucien Borloo, born inGuémené-sur-Scorff,Morbihan, of Breton and Belgian origin, and Mauricette Acquaviva from Marseille, of Corsican origin. Borloo gained hisbaccalauréat in 1969, in the philosophy stream.
In 1972 he took a first degree in Law and Philosophy atPanthéon-Sorbonne University, in 1974 a further degree in History and Economics atParis X Nanterre, and in 1976 anMBA atHEC Paris.[2] While a student, he worked at afilling station to pay his studies.[3]
Borloo began his career as a lawyer in the 1980s. He became president of theValenciennes Football Club in 1986. In 1989, he was elected mayor ofValenciennes as anIndependent, winning over 76% of the second-round vote.[4]
In the June 1989European Parliament election, Borloo was elected to theEuropean Parliament as the second candidate onSimone Veil's list. He held this seat until his election as regional councillor inNord-Pas-de-Calais in 1992.
Borloo was elected to theNational Assembly as amiscellaneous right candidate representing the21st constituency ofNord in1993. Joining the caucus of theUDF, he was re-elected in1997, two years after his re-election as Mayor of Valenciennes.
He was a founding member ofEcology Generation in 1990, but he later joined theUnion for French Democracy led byFrançois Bayrou. However, in 2002 he joined theRadical Party, associated with the newUnion for a Popular Movement (UMP). He was co-president of the Radical Party alongsideAndré Rossinot between 2005 and 2007, when he became sole president of the party.
It was on the Radical-UMP ticket that Borloo was re-elected as adeputy in2002 and2007. He wasMinister Delegate for the City and Urban Renovation in theJean-Pierre Raffarin governments between 2002 and 2004, Minister of Labour, Employment and Social Cohesion under Raffarin between 2004 and 2005, and finally Minister of Employment, Social Cohesion and Housing in theDominique de Villepin government between 2005 and 2007. In that role, he introduced a five-year plan ofsocial cohesion, which was centered around three axes:equal opportunity, housing and employment.
On 21 July 2005 Borloo married news anchorwomanBéatrice Schönberg atRueil-Malmaison, Hauts-de-Seine.
From 18 May to 19 June 2007, he wasMinister of the Economy and Finance in theFrançois Fillon cabinet. Between 19 June 2007 and November 2010, he was the Frenchminister of State for Energy, Ecology and Sustainable Development. In this capacity, he was a major player in the 2007–2008Grenelle de l'environnement. He quit the government allegedly after being passed over for premiership in a cabinet reshuffle.[5]
In April 2011, Borloo left the UMP in protest at Sarkozy's rightward swing. He announced plans to set up a "republican, ecologist, and social alliance", with a view to becoming a candidate in the2012 presidential election.[6] However, he decided not to run for President of France.
In September 2012, he created theUnion of Democrats and Independents (UDI), successor ofThe Alliance, trying to unify all the centrist parties, while the UDI still allied with the UMP.
Despite being a leader in the UDI, Borloo was not involved in the2014 municipal elections, mentioning health reasons, such as frontal acutepneumonia andsepsis. On 6 April 2014, Borloo announced in a letter to the executives of the UDI that he would resign immediately from "every political term and position" due to his health concerns.[7]
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