Nicole Ameline

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Nicole Ameline
Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
Assumed office
2013
Secretary-GeneralBan Ki-moon
António Guterres
Minister for Parity and Professional Equality
In office
17 June 2002 – 31 May 2005
PresidentJacques Chirac
Prime MinisterJean-Pierre Raffarin
Succeeded byCatherine Vautrin
Member of the National Assembly
for Calvados's 4th constituency
In office
20 June 2007 – 20 June 2017
Preceded byYves Boisseau
Succeeded byChristophe Blanchet
Personal details
Born (1952-07-04) 4 July 1952 (age 71)
University of Caen

Nicole Ameline (born 4 July 1952) is a French politician, lawyer, diplomat and

Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women since 2008 and was the committee's chairperson from 2013.[1]

She represented the department of Calvados as a member of The Republicans.[2]

Biography

Titled a

National Assembly of France
in 1988, and took over from him on his death in 1991.

In 1993, with Yves Boisseau as deputy, she was elected with a large majority in the second round on the

National Front candidate, and on the left by Corinne Lepage
, who failed to qualify for the second round.

In May 1995, with the victory of Jacques Chirac, she left her post in order to enter the Government of Alain Juppé. The same year, she headed the Hornfleur Majorité Présidentielle list for the municipality, but lost by 37 votes to an independent ecologist. She left the government in November with the other "Juppettes" and she easily regained her seat in December.

Re-elected following the dissolution of 1997, she was the only member on the Calvados right. The following year, she joined the Regional Council of Lower Normandy, as vice president, deputy to René Garrec, president of the region since 1986.

Re-elected as a member in 2002 under the banner of the Union pour la majorité présidentielle, newly created from the UMP, she was a minister in the Raffarin government, responsible for the Sea for one month, then had full responsibility for Parity and Professional Equality, up until Jean-Pierre Raffarin's resignation on 31 May 2005.

She lost her seat in the 2017 French legislative election.

References

  1. ^ “We have to make next year a great year for transformation” – Nicole Ameline, Chair of the CEDAW Committee, UN Women
  2. National Assembly of France
    . Retrieved 25 February 2012.
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