Patrick Ollier

Patrick Ollier
President of the National Assembly
In office
7 March 2007  19 June 2007
President Jacques Chirac
Nicolas Sarkozy
Preceded by Jean-Louis Debré
Succeeded by Bernard Accoyer
Minister for Relationships 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
Mayor of Rueil-Malmaison
Assumed office
18 June 2004
Preceded by Jacques Baumel
Member of the French National Assembly for Hauts-de-Seine
Assumed office
18 June 2002
Preceded by Éric Berdoati
Personal details
Born (1944-12-17) 17 December 1944
Périgueux, France
Political party UMP (2002–present)
Domestic partner Michèle Alliot-Marie
Alma mater Sciences Po Aix

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 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.

Private life

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.

Public life

At the same time Ollier is Mayor in the city of Rueil Malmaison. Rueil is a high-class suburb of Paris. He is also, since March 2007, the President of the Parliamentary Chamber in France.

Parliamentary work

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.

Renewables energies

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.

SRU Law

Africa

Official positions

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 career

Governmental functions

Electoral mandates

National Assembly of France

General Council

Municipal Council

References

Political offices
Preceded by
Jean-Louis Debré
President of the National Assembly
2007
Succeeded by
Bernard Accoyer
Preceded by
Henri de Raincourt
Minister for Relationships with Parliament
2010-2012
Succeeded by
Alain Vidalies
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