Jean-Louis Debré

Infobox Politician
name =Jean-Louis Debré


caption =Jean-Louis Debré in 2006
order =President of the Constitutional Council of France
office =
term_start =5 March 2007
term_end =
predecessor =Pierre Mazeaud
successor =
order2 =President of the French National Assembly
office2 =
term_start2 =25 June 2002
term_end2 =2 March 2007
president2 =
primeminister2 =
predecessor2 =Raymond Forni
successor2 =Patrick Ollier
order3 =French Interior Minister
office3 =
term_start3 =18 May 1995
term_end3 =4 June 1997
president3 =Jacques Chirac
primeminister3 =Alain Juppé
predecessor3 =Charles Pasqua
successor3 =Jean-Pierre Chevènement
assembly4 =French National
constituency_AM4 =Eure (1st constituency)
term_start4 =1 June 1997
term_end4 =5 March 2007
predecessor4 =Françoise Charpentier
successor4 =Françoise Charpentier
term_start5 =2 April 1986
term_end5 =18 June 1995
predecessor5 =
successor5 =Françoise Charpentier
order6 =Mayor of Évreux
office6 =
term_start6 =18 March 2001
term_end6 =12 March 2007
predecessor6 =Roland Plaisance
successor6 =Jean-Pierre Nicolas
birth_date =Birth date and age|1944|9|30|df=y
birth_place =Toulouse, France
death_date =
death_place =
nationality =French
party =UMP
otherparty =
spouse = Anne-Marie Debré
relations =
children =Charles Guillaume Marie-Victoire
residence =
alma_mater =École nationale de la magistrature Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris
occupation =
profession =
religion =


website =
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Jean-Louis Debré (born 30 September 1944 [http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/12/tribun/fiches_id/1022.asp CV at National Assembly website] .] ) is a conservative French political figure. He was President of the National Assembly of France from 2002 to 2007 and has been President of the Constitutional Council since 2007.

Debré was born in Toulouse. The son of former Prime Minister Michel Debré and the brother of politician Bernard Debré, he was member of the Neo-Gaullist party Rally for the Republic (RPR) then of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP). Debré is known for his loyalty to Jacques Chirac.

Jean-Louis Debré, outside of politics, is a career judge. [ [http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/WAspad/UnTexteDeJorf?numjo=JUSB0310143D Decree of the President of the Republic] putting Jean-Louis Debré on leave from his judgeship in order to be member of the National Assembly.]

Debré was first elected to the National Assembly in the 1986 parliamentary election; he was re-elected in 1988, 1993, 1997, and 2002 as a deputy from the first constituency of Eure. [ [http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/12/tribun/fiches_id/1022.asp CV at National Assembly website] .] He was Minister of the Interior in Alain Juppé's governments (1995-1997), and has been criticized for having allowed the armed Corsican clandestine press conference, and was responsible for the controversial evacuation of Saint-Bernard church in Paris, which was occupied by illegal immigrants (so called "sans-papiers") on hunger strikes.

He was elected as Mayor of Evreux in 2001, serving in that post until 2007.

He was leader of the RPR group in the National Assembly from 1997 to 2002 and then President of the National Assembly from 2002 to 2007. Faithful to President Chirac, he frequently criticized UMP leader Nicolas Sarkozy. He resigned as President of the National Assembly three months before the end of his tenure after he was appointed as President of the Constitutional Council by Chirac on 22 February 2007. [ [http://www.lexpress.fr/info/quotidien/actu.asp?id=9352 L'Express.fr] , 23 February 2007; [http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/WAspad/UnTexteDeJorf?numjo=HRUX0710072S Decision of the President of the Republic of 23 February 2007 ] appointing Jean-Louis Debré as president of the Constitutional council.] He replaced Pierre Mazeaud in the latter position.

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ee also

*Debré family