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Éric Woerth

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Éric Woerth
Éric Woerth in 2008
Memberof theNational Assembly
forOise's4th constituency
Incumbent
Assumed office
17 June 2012
Preceded byChristian Patria
MayorofChantilly
In office
23 June 1995 – 6 July 2017
Preceded byPhilippe Courboin
Succeeded byIsabelle Wojtowiez
Minister of the Budget
In office
18 May 2007 – 22 March 2010
PresidentNicolas Sarkozy
Prime MinisterFrançois Fillon
Preceded byJean-François Copé
Succeeded byFrançois Baroin
Personal details
Born(1956-01-29)29 January 1956(age 68)
Creil,France
Political partyRenaissance
SpouseFlorence Henry
Children2
Alma materPanthéon-Assas University
Sciences Po,HEC Paris

Éric Woerth(born 29 January 1956) is a French politician ofRenaissance.

Early life and education

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Woerth was born inCreil,Oise.He studied atParis 2 Panthéon-Assas University,HEC ParisandSciences Po.

Political career

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Career in local politics

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Municipal Council

MayorofChantilly:1995-2004 (Resignation) / And since 2005. Reelected in 2001, 2005, 2008.

Deputy-mayor of Chantilly: 2004–2005.

Municipal councillor of Chantilly: Since 1995. Reelected in 2001, 2008.

Community of communes Council

President of theCommunauté de communesof the aire cantilenne[check spelling]:Since 1995. Reelected in 2001, 2008.

Member of theCommunauté de communesof the aire cantilienne: Since 1995. Reelected in 2001, 2008.

Vice-president of the Regional Council of Picardy: 1992–1998.

Regional councillor ofPicardy:1986-2002 (Resignation). Reelected in 1992, 1998.

Member of the National Assembly, 2002–2004

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Woerth was electedDeputyforOisein2002.In parliament, he served on theFinance Committeefrom 2002 until 2004.[1]

In addition to his parliamentary work, Woerth was the treasurer of theUMPuntil he resigned in July 2010.[2]

Career in government

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Woerth wasstate secretary for state reformin the government[3]ofPrime MinisterJean-Pierre Raffarinfrom 2004 to 2005.

Woerth founded the "club de la boussole",a group of UMPdéputés,and is a member of theRéformateurs,a liberal trend within the UMP.

Woerth was the Minister for the Budget, Public Accounts and the Civil Service from 2007 until 2010, in the government ofPrime MinisterFrançois Fillon.[4]In this capacity, he oversaw French authorities obtaining Swiss bank account data amid a push to catch tax cheats.[5]

Woerth later served asMinister of Labor, Solidarity and Civil Servicefrom March until November 2010.[6]

Member of the National Assembly, 2010–present

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In parliament, Woerth served on theCommittee on Foreign Affairsfrom 2010 until 2012 before moving to theFinance Committeein 2012.[7]In addition to his committee assignments, he has been a member of theFranco-German Parliamentary Assemblysince 2019.[8]

In the Republicans'2016 presidential primaries,Woerth endorsedFrançois Fillonas the party's candidate for the office ofPresident of France.[9]In the Republicans'2017 leadership election,he endorsedLaurent Wauquiez.[10]

In July 2019, Woerth was one of the few LR members who abstained from a vote on the French ratification of theEuropean Union'sComprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement(CETA) withCanada.[11]

Together withBenjamin Dirx,Woerth published a non-legally binding report in 2019 which garnered international attention for its recommendations on preventingshort-sellersand activists from unfairly destabilising French corporates. These included widening the disclosures of short positions toderivatives instruments,pushing for more transparency around the borrowing and lending of stock, and investigating whether market functions are jeopardised once short selling reaches a certain volume of shares.[12][13]

Ahead of the2022 presidential elections,Woerth publicly declared his support for incumbentEmmanuel Macronand criticized the Republicans’ candidateValérie Pécresse.[14][15]

Following the2022 legislative election,Woerth stood as a candidate for theNational Assembly's presidency;[16]in an internal vote, he lost againstYaël Braun-Pivet.[17]

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On 5 July 2010, following its investigations on theLiliane Bettencourt and Éric Woerthpolitical controversy, the online newspaperMediapartrevealed a report where Claire Thibout, an ex-accountant working forLiliane Bettencourt,accused Nicolas Sarkozy and Woerth of receiving illegal campaign donations in 2007, in cash.[18][19]TheCanard enchaînéandMarianneweeklies later revealed that Woerth authorized the sale of theCompiegneracetrack to a group with close connections to theUMP,for a very low price and through an improper procedure.[20]He was placed under formal investigation by theCour de Justice de la Républiquefor that sale. All charges against him were dismissed in 2015.[21][circular reference]

He has been put under investigation in 2018 in thealleged Libyan financing in the 2007 French presidential electionand in 2021 in theBernard Tapie case.

References

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  1. ^Éric WoerthFrench National Assembly.
  2. ^Eric Woerth va, "bien sûr", quitter son poste de trésorier de l’UMP(Eric Worth will "of course" resign his post as treasurer of UMP)
  3. ^Henley, Jon (13 May 2004)."Commission impossible".The Guardian.ISSN0261-3077.Retrieved7 February2017.
  4. ^Communiqué de la Présidence de la République concernant la composition du gouvernement de M. François FILLON, Premier ministre.,Élysée Palace,18 May 2007.
  5. ^David Jolly (30 August 2009),France Pursues Tax Cheats Using Swiss BanksInternational Herald Tribune.
  6. ^http://www.foxbusiness.com/story/markets/frances-woerth-named-labor-minister-budget-minister/[dead link]
  7. ^Éric WoerthFrench National Assembly.
  8. ^Éric WoerthFrench National Assembly.
  9. ^Éric Woerth: "François Fillon sera un très grand président de la République"L'Opinion,25 November 2016.
  10. ^Ludovic Vigogne (11 October 2017),La liste des 136 parrains de Laurent WauquiezL'Opinion.
  11. ^Maxime Vaudano (24 July 2019),CETA: qui a voté quoi parmi les députésLe Monde.
  12. ^David Keohane and Harriet Agnew (2 October 2019),France seeks crackdown on short sellers and activist investorsFinancial Times.
  13. ^Laurence Boisseau (3 December 2019),L'activiste Muddy Waters défend les vertus de la vente à découvertLes Échos.
  14. ^Patrick Caffin (9 February 2022),Soutien d’Eric Woerth à Emmanuel Macron: la droite au bord de l’implosion dans l’OiseLe Parisien.
  15. ^Michel Rose and Sophie Louet (11 February 2022),French conservative contender woos Sarkozy to save campaignReuters.
  16. ^Loris Boichot (21 June 2022),Braun-Pivet, Pompili, Lescure... Six Marcheurs candidats pour remplacer Richard Ferrand à la tête de l’AssembléeLibération.
  17. ^Yaël Braun-Pivet élue candidate de la majorité pour présider l’Assemblée nationaleLe Monde,23 June 2022.
  18. ^L'ex-comptable des Bettencourt accuse: des enveloppes d'argent à Woerth et à Sarkozy,original report, in French
  19. ^Financial Times
  20. ^"Compiègne: Woerth reste en selle",Le Journal du dimanche,14 juillet 2010.
  21. ^fr:Affaire Woerth-Bettencourt#Décision de renvois en correctionnelle et relaxe
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