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Arnaud Montebourg (born October 30, 1962, in Clamecy, Nièvre) is a French politician, and a deputy of the fifth district of Saône-et-Loire to the French National Assembly for the Socialist Party. He has also been elected president of the local assembly of Saône et Loire after local elections in 2008. Montebourg was also candidate to the socialist presidential primary of 2011.

Biography

He is the son of Michel Montebourg, a civil servant employed in the Ministry of Economy and Finances, and of Leïla Ould Cadi, a professor of Spanish born in a family of Wālis in French Algeria.

Politics

Alongside Bastien François, a Professor of Political Science at the Sorbonne University, Montebourg was the cofounder in 2001 of the Convention pour la VIe République (C6R). This called for significant constitutional change in France, leading to the founding of a "Sixth Republic".

Montebourg was one of the founding members of the political current known as the Nouveau Parti Socialiste (New Socialist Party), but left to create a new movement within the socialist party called "Rénover, Maintenant" ("Renewal Now"). He was one of the leading opponents of President Jacques Chirac's immunity from prosecution, especially concerning the corruption scandals in the Paris region. Montebourg also supported reporter Denis Robert for his role in revealing the illegal system of double-accounts maintained by Clearstream, a clearing-house based in Luxembourg.

He has been engaged in a campaign against the rules governing taxation of foreign nationals and banking secrecy of Switzerland.

Montebourg was appointed as spokesman for Ségolène Royal's presidential campaign following his endorsement of her candidacy during the Socialist Party primary election of November 2006. On January 18, 2007, Royal suspended Montebourg from her campaign for one month after he stated, on a Canal+ talk show the previous night, that "Ségolène Royal has only one fault, her partner." He was referring to the contradictory statements made by Royal's partner, François Hollande who is also leader of the Socialist Party, with regards to tax policy. Montebourg had offered his resignation, which Royal refused to accept.

In 2010, celebrity magazines revealed that he was in a relationship with Audrey Pulvar, a French journalist.

In 2011, when Dominique Strauss-Kahn was released from jail and flew back to France, Montebourg urged him to apologize for embarrassing the Socialist Party.

Political career

• Electoral mandates
  • National Assembly of France
    • Member of the National Assembly of France for Saône-et-Loire : Since 1997. Elected in 1997, reelected in 2002, 2007.
  • General Council
    • President of the General Council of Saône-et-Loire : Since 2008.
    • General councillor of Saône-et-Loire : Since 2008.

References

1. In an interview to an Algerian electronic newspaper in February 2010 he said "My grandfather is Algerian. His name was Khermiche Ould Cadi. He is from a family of the Mascara plain, from Dombasle to be precise. "Mon grand père est Algérien. Il s’appelait Khermiche Ould Cadi. Il est issu d’une famille de la plaine de Mascara, de Dombasle, exactement. ", in: Guemache, Lounes (25 February 2010). "La France n'a aucune raison de ne pas regarder en face ce qu'elle a été". Tout sur l'Algérie (TSA) (in French). Retrieved 18 August 2010.; the town named Dombasle during the colonization bears now the name of Hachem
2. Swiss and French squabble over tax, Al-Jazeera, January 6, 2007
3. Royal rétablit l’ordre juste en suspendant Montebourg, Le Figaro, January 18, 2007
4. Strauss-Kahn regrets 'moral failing', Hindustantimes.com, September 19, 2011

External links

• Official website
• Webpage from the National Assembly site
• Michael C. Behrent, "Stop the World": Arnaud Montebourg and "Deglobalization"(blog post)

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• 1962 births
• Living people
• People from Nièvre
• Socialist Party (France) politicians
• Alumni of Sciences Po
• French people of Algerian descent
• Candidates for the French presidential election, 2012