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| Affiliation | Socialist |
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| Name | Michel Rocard |
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Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, Île-de-France , France |
| Email | None |
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August 23, 1930
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| Died | July 02, 2016
(85 years)
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| Last Modifed | Juan Croniqueur
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| Info | Michel Rocard (born August 23, 1930) is a French Socialist politician, former French Prime minister, and currently a member of the European Parliament.
He was born at Courbevoie (Hauts-de-Seine) in a Protestant family. He entered politics as a student leader whilst studying at the Ecole Nationale d'Administration. A finance inspector (senior official) and anti-colonialist, he went to Algeria and wrote a report regarding the widely unknown refugee camps. This report was leaked to the newspapers Le Monde and France Observateur in April 1959, almost costing Rocard his job.
He led the Unified Socialist Party (PSU, left side socialists) from 1967 to 1974. Elected in National Assembly in 1969, he stood in the 1969 Presidential elections. After his run for re-election as a representative in 1973, he joined, one year later, François Mitterrand and the Parti Socialiste. Most of the PSU members and a part of trade-union "second left" followed him.
Elected Mayor of Conflans-Sainte-Honorine in 1977 and representative of the Yvelines département in the French National Assembly in 1978, he led the opposition to François Mitterrand inside the French Socialist Party, but was unsuccessful in seeking the socialist nomination for 1981 presidency.
Under Mitterand's first presidency, he was Minister of Regional and Economical Planning from 1981 to 1983 and Agriculture Minister from 1983 to 1985. After Mitterand's re-election, he was Prime Minister (1988-1991) and led the Matignon Accords regarding the status of New Caledonia, which ended the troubles in this overseas territory.
After the 1993 electoral disaster, he became head of Socialist Party, but had to resign one year later, after his own defeat: the Socialist Party had its worst electoral result in the 1994 European Parliament election.
Michel Rocard then lost his last chance to run for president in 1995. Elected Senator of Yvelines in 1995, he resigned two years later.
Since 1999, he has been a member of the European Parliament, and was chairman of Foreign affairs, human rights and defense commission from 1999 to 2004. Michel Rocard is known for his hostility for the proposed measures to allow software patents in Europe, and has been an outspoken opponent of what he considers to be sneaky manoeuvres to force the decision on this issue.
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