Patrick Ollier (French pronunciation: [patʁik ɔlje]; born 17 December 1944) is a French politician. He is the Mayor of Rueil-Malmaison. He was a national assembly deputy for Hauts-Alpes's 2nd constituency from 1988 to 2002, as a member of the UMP. Secondly for Hauts-de-Seine's 7th constituency from 2002 to 2017. 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.
Patrick Ollier | |
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Mayor of Rueil-Malmaison | |
Assumed office 18 June 2004 | |
Preceded by | Jacques Baumel |
President of the National Assembly | |
In office 7 March 2007 – 19 June 2007 | |
Preceded by | Jean-Louis Debré |
Succeeded by | Bernard Accoyer |
Minister for Relations with Parliament | |
In office 14 November 2010 – 10 May 2012 | |
President | Nicolas Sarkozy |
Prime Minister | François Fillon |
Preceded by | Henri de Raincourt |
Succeeded by | Alain Vidalies |
Member of the National Assembly | |
In office 20 June 2012 – 20 June 2017 | |
Preceded by | Éric Berdoati |
Succeeded by | Jacques Marilossian |
Constituency | Hauts-de-Seine's 7th |
In office 19 June 2002 – 15 December 2010 | |
Preceded by | Jacques Baumel |
Succeeded by | Éric Berdoati |
Constituency | Hauts-de-Seine's 7th |
In office 23 June 1988 – 18 June 2002 | |
Preceded by | Robert de Caumont |
Succeeded by | Joël Giraud |
Constituency | Hautes-Alpes's 2nd |
Personal details | |
Born | Périgueux, France | 17 December 1944
Political party | The Republicans (2015–present) |
Other political affiliations | Union for a Popular Movement (2002–2015) |
Domestic partner | Michèle Alliot-Marie |
Alma mater | Sciences Po Aix |
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 14 January 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 26 June of the same year.
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 14 November 2010 to 27 February 2011. Mr Ollier is an Honorary member of the Rotary Club of Rueil Malmaison and a public officer.
Ollier is Mayor in the city of Rueil Malmaison. Rueil is a high-class suburb of Paris.
He was a deputy of the national assembly, and was its president from March to June 2007.
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.
Governmental functions
Electoral mandates
National Assembly of France
General Council