- Hervé Novelli
Hervé Novelli (b.
Paris March 6 ,1949 ) is a French politician and a past member of the UDF group. He was a deputé in theAssemblée Nationale for theIndre-et-Loire département from 2002 to 2007, having previously been a député from 1993-1997. He has also served as a member of theEuropean Parliament from 1999 to 2002 and as vice-president of the Indre et Loire local government ("conseil général") from 1998 to 2001. He is also mayor of Richelieu since 2001. In june 2007, he became a member of the cabinet ofNicolas Sarkozy as an undersecretary for business and foreign trade ("secrétaire d’Etat chargé des Entreprises et du Commerce extérieur"). He is since march 2008 anundersecretary for commerce, craftsmanship, small and medium businesses, tourism and services ("secrétaire d’Etat chargé du commerce, de l’artisanat, des petites et moyennes entreprises, du tourisme et des services") in the cabinet ofNicolas Sarkozy . In march 2006, he has created the association "Les Réformateurs".His political history is that of a right-wing politician moving to the center ground. He was, from the 1960s - 1980s a member of various different rightist parties including Occident, the
Parti des forces nouvelles , the National Front, etc., before joining the conservativeNational Centre of Independents and Peasants and then the centrist Parti Républicain, a component of UDF. He was general secretary from 1990 to 1993, then member of the "bureau exécutif" of the Parti Républicain.Professionally, he was CEO of "établissements Janton", from 1982 to 2006, and "chargé de mission" for the french steel industry ("Chargé de mission pour la chambre syndicale de la sidérurgie française")from 1977 to 1986.
Bibliography
* Frédéric Charpier, "Génération Occident" (Paris: Le Seuil, 2005) ISBN 9782020614139
External links
* [http://www.herve-novelli.com/ Web site of Hervé Novelli] (in French)
* [http://blog.pacteforce5.fr/ Blog of Hervé Novelli]
* [http://www.assemblee-nationale.net/13/tribun/fiches_id/2283.asp Hervé Novelli's page at Assemblée Nationale] (in French)
* [http://www.premier-ministre.gouv.fr/acteurs/biographie_5/acteurs/gouvernement/secretariat_etat_entreprises_commerce_m632/ Biography on the Web site of the French Government]
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