Jean-François Copé
 Jean-François Copé         ( politician) | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | 5 May 1964 Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France | ||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | French | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ethnicity | Jewish | ||||||||||||||||||
| Alma mater | • Lycée Victor Duruy • Sciences Po • École nationale d'administration | ||||||||||||||||||
| Children | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Spouse | • Valérie Ducuing • Nadia Hamama | ||||||||||||||||||
| Member of | Le Siècle, Trilateral Commission | ||||||||||||||||||
| Party | Rally for the Republic, Union for a Popular Movement, Les Républicains (2015-present) | ||||||||||||||||||
French politician who attended Bilderberg/2003 as Minister of the Budget and later presidential candidate.
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Jean-François Copé is a French politician. He attended the 2003 Bilderberg meeting.
Background
Jean-François Copé was born in Boulogne-Billancourt, the son of Professor Roland Copé, a surgeon of Romanian Jewish origin, and Monique Ghanassia, of Algerian Jewish origin.
Education
He studied at the English-French bilingual École Active Bilingue Jeannine Manuel, and then at Lycée Victor Duruy. In 1985 he entered Sciences Po for two years, before attending the École nationale d'administration, from which he graduated in 1989. He followed training seminars on New Public Management in the United States, and he is a proponent of "Benchmarking" on budget matters.
Career
In May 2002, Copé became Secretary of State in the first and second cabinets of Jean-Pierre Raffarin. He was in charge of relations with parliament in the Prime Minister's department. In the Raffarin III cabinet, he first became an associate minister in the Ministry of the Interior in March 2004 and then, in the course of a cabinet reshuffle in November 2004, an Associate Minister for the Budget (ministre delegué au budget) in the Ministry of Finance; he retained this position in the government of Dominique de Villepin. He was also the government spokesman from 2002 to 2007. In December 2005, he was re-elected mayor of Meaux, a post he then held in addition to his duties in national politics (re-elected in 2008 and 2014).
In December 2006, Copé launched the neo-Gaullist-liberal economic think tank Génération France.fr.
After the 2007 presidential election, he resigned from the government.
In November 2010, he became General Secretary of the Union for a Popular Movement. He declared himself a candidate for the presidency of the UMP in August 2012, facing François Fillon, Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet and Bruno Le Maire. He was supported by many strong UMP members, such as former Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin, UMP leader at the National Assembly Christian Jacob and former Minister of Education Luc Chatel.
Trying to get attention before the election, in September 2012, Copé denounced the development of an anti-White racism by people living in France, sparking a nationwide controversy in media and politics.[1][2][3]
On 19 November 2012, Copé declared himself winner of the Union for a Popular Movement leadership election with 50,03% of votes, an assertion that was contradicted by François Fillon who asserted his own victory. In the following days, the crisis amplified with a mutual accusation of fraud.
On 27 February 2014 Le Point magazine accused Copé of using a friend's company as contractor for UMP's events organisation, and overpaying it.[4] Copé rejected the charges, accused the magazine's editor of persecution[5] and sued him.[6]
Following UMP's poor results in the 2014 European elections and accusations linked with the Bygmalion invoices scandal, Copé was forced to resign as UMP chairman on 27 May 2014.[7] However, Copé was eventually cleared of all wrongdoing by the justice system.
A candidate to the 2016 Republican primary, he ended last with only 0.3%. He supported Alain Juppé against his former rival François Fillon in the second ballot.
In June 2024, the Paris prosecutor's office opened an investigation against Jean-François Copé, concerning the use of municipal vehicles for purposes beyond his duties as mayor of Meaux. This investigation followed a report from the anti-corruption association Anticor, in February 2023, for alleged acts of "embezzlement of public funds".[8]
Marriages
Divorced, he has four children from his previous marriage, and one from his current union.
Events Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bilderberg/2003 | 15 May 2003 | 18 May 2003 | France Versailles | The 51st Bilderberg, in Versailles, France |
| WEF/Annual Meeting/2007 | 24 January 2007 | 28 January 2007 | Switzerland WEF | Only the 450 public figures listed of ~2200 participants |
| WEF/Annual Meeting/2008 | 23 January 2008 | 27 January 2008 | Switzerland WEF | At the 2008 summit, Klaus Schwab called for a coordinated approach, where different 'stakeholders' collaborate across geographical, industrial, political and cultural boundaries." |
References
- ↑ Libération: «Racisme anti-blanc» : Copé persiste et signe, 27 September 2012, retrieved 13 October 2012
- ↑ Le Figaro: Copé dénonce l'existence d'un «racisme anti-Blanc», 26 September 2012, retrieved 13 October 2012
- ↑ Le Monde: "Racisme anti-Blancs" : Marine Le Pen dénonce le "cynisme" de Copé, 26 September 2012, retrieved 29 October 2012
- ↑ http://www.lepoint.fr/politique/exclusif-8-millions-regles-par-l-ump-a-des-amis-de-cope-27-02-2014-1796074_20.php
- ↑ http://www.lemonde.fr/politique/video/2014/03/03/cope-se-dit-victime-d-une-chasse-a-l-homme_4376689_823448.html?xtmc=cope&xtcr=19
- ↑ http://www.lefigaro.fr/flash-actu/2014/03/04/97001-20140304FILWWW00207-cope-a-porte-plainte-contre-le-point.php
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20150923210235/http://www.connexionfrance.com/france-politics-ump-bygmalion-affair-nicolas-sarkozy-jean-francois-cope-scandal-funding-election-15828-view-article.html
- ↑ {https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2024/11/27/jean-francois-cope-vise-par-une-enquete-preliminaire-pour-son-usage-des-chauffeurs-de-la-mairie-de-meaux_6417401_3224.html
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