Roselyne Bachelot

Roselyne Bachelot-Narquin, generally known as Roselyne Bachelot (born 24 December 1946 in Nevers), is a French politician and a member of the Union for a Popular Movement, which is part of the European People's Party

She's currently the French Minister of Health, Youth Affairs, Sport and Associations.

Since french ministers cannot be members of Parliaman, she has been forced to give up her seat as Member of the European Parliament for the west of France. She used to sit on the European Parliament's Committee on Employment and Social Affairs. She also was a substitute on the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy, a member of the delegation for relations with the Palestinian Legislative Council, and a substitute for the delegation for relations with Israel.

Career

* Doctor of Pharmacy
* Head of the UMP list for the Grand Ouest region in the European elections on 13 June 2004
* Member of the UMP executive bureau
* Member of the Maine-et-Loire Departmental Council (1982-1988)
* Elected to the Pays de Loire Regional Council (1986)
* became Vice-Chairwoman and chaired the Committee on Regional Planning and the Environment
* RPR Member for the first Maine-et-Loire constituency (1988-2002)
* member of the Committee on Cultural Affairs
* general rapporteur for the monitoring centre on equality between men and women
* Chairwoman of the study group on disabled people
* Chairwoman of the study group on the Iraqi question
* Spokeswoman for Jacques Chirac's presidential campaign (2002)
* Minister for Ecology and Sustainable Development in Jean-Pierre Raffarin's government (2002-2004)
* Founder of the agency to safeguard the banks of the Loire and its tributaries
* Chairwoman of the National Council for Disabled People (1995-1998)
* Chairwoman of the Euro-Arab Parliamentary Association (1998-2002), elected in Damascus in 2002
* Deux femmes au royaume des hommes (with Geneviève Fraisse), Hachette, 1998
* Le Pacs, entre haine et amour, Plon, 2000
* Les maires

External links

* [http://62.23.223.178/accueil.php Official website] (in French)
* [http://wwwdb.europarl.eu.int/ep6/owa/whos_mep.data?ilg=EN&iucd=28179 European Parliament biography]
* [http://wwwdb.europarl.eu.int/ep6-dif/28179_12-07-2004.PDF Declaration of financial interests] (in French; PDF file)