Jean Lecanuet
 Jean Lecanuet    ( politician) | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | 1920-03-04 Rouen, France | ||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 1993-02-22 (Age 72) Neuilly-sur-Seine, France | ||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | French | ||||||||||||||||||
| Alma mater | University of Caen | ||||||||||||||||||
| Party | Popular Republican Movement, Democratic Centre, Centre of Social Democrats | ||||||||||||||||||
French transatlantic presidential candidate in 1965 against president de Gaulle - who the supranational deep state wanted to get rid of - who was selected to attend the 1965 and 1966 Bilderberg meetings.
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Jean Lecanuet was a French politician. He was presidential candidate in 1965 against president de Gaulle - who the supranational deep state wanted to get rid of - and attended the 1965 and 1966 Bilderberg meetings. Lecanuet was a convinced Atlanticist and against own French nuclear weapons[1] - unlike de Gaulle who led a policy of French economic and military independence - and a supporter of the United States of Europe[2]. The Atlanticist current that he represented benefited from financial support from the Americans.[3]
Early life
Lecanuet came from modest circumstances, his father was a sales representative. He attended the Catholic boarding school of the La Salle brothers, then the Lycée Corneille in Rouen, where he graduated in 1939. His plan to apply to the École normale supérieure was prevented by the Second World War, instead he obtained a Licence in Lettres (languages and literature) and philosophy at the University of Caen.
After a short participation in the war in June 1940 until the surrender of France, he continued his studies in occupied Paris, completed the Maîtrise the following year and passed the Agrégation (State Examination for the higher Teaching Qualification) in philosophy in 1942 as the best student in the occupied zone (second best in all of France). At the age of 22, Lecanuet was the youngest agrégé in France, he then taught at a lycée in Douai and then in Lille. At the same time, he became involved in the Résistance group of Capitaine Michel, specializing in railway sabotage.
Career
After France's liberation, the young philosophy professor decided on politics Popular Republican Movement (MRP) and worked for several ministers of this party from 1945 to 1951. From 1951 to 1955 he was a deputy of his home département Seine-Maritime in the National Assembly. From October 1955 to 1956 he was State Secretary for Relations with the "Associated States" (former French colonies in Indochina). After the establishment of the Fifth Republic, he sat in the French Senate from 1959 to 1973. In May 1963, he took over the chairmanship of the MRP, but the party had lost much of its importance and was in the process of dissolution. Many voters and deputies had defected to the Gaullists.
As a "centrist" candidate coming out of nowhere, Lecanuet ran against the incumbent president, General Charles de Gaulle, in the presidential elections of 1965. In addition to the MRP, he was also supported by Paul Reynaud and his party CNIP. Due to his relatively young age (he was 30 years younger than de Gaulle) and his portrayal in the mass media, he was presented as the "French Kennedy", and "Mr. White Teeth" by his enemies[4].
In 1960, Lecaunet proposed a "joint" nuclear force with the US.[5] Lecaunet might have been the "Mister X" wanted by Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber in 1962, who analyzed that there might be enough anti-Gaullist votes to defeat the General if they could be unified behind a single candidate. His political current saw an adequate economic plan as depending on the reversal of the government's chief policies: i.e., unification of Europe, the acceptance of foreign (American) capital, the abandonment of the French nuclear weapons and the expansion of credit even at the risk of inflation.[6]
In the first ballot on 5. In December 1965, Lecanuet received 15.6% (3.78 million votes) and thus finished third with a clear gap to de Gaulle with 44.6% and François Mitterrand with 31.7%, but surprisingly forced de Gaulle into a second ballot against Mitterrand. After the election, he founded the Centre démocrate (CD) as a new party of the bourgeois center, which united the Christian Democratic MRP and the liberal-conservative CNIP, as well as individuals such as René Pleven.
Later political career
In his hometown of Rouen, he was mayor for 25 years from 1968 until his death.
Before the second round of voting in the 1973 parliamentary elections, Lecanuet negotiated with the Prime Minister Pierre Messmer the tactical withdrawal of centrist and Gaullist candidates in key constituencies, which together helped both groups to achieve a majority in the National Assembly. Lecanuet himself resigned from his Senate seat and successfully applied for a seat in the National Assembly.
In the 1974 presidential election, he supported the candidacy of the ultimately victorious Valéry Giscard d'Estaing of the conservative-liberal Républicains indépendants. Under his presidency, Lecanuet was Minister of Justice in the Jacques Chirac cabinet from May 1974 to August 1976. In May 1976, Lecanuet's Centre démocrate merged with another Christian Democratic party to form the Centre des démocrates sociaux (CDS). Lecanuet was then its chairman until 1982. From August 1976 to March 1977, he was a member of Raymond Barre's government as a Ministre d'état (i.e. one of the highest-ranking ministers) responsible for planning and spatial planning.
From 1977 to 1988 he was again in the Senate for the Seine-Maritime constituency, where he headed the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defense and the Armed Forces from [1979]]. The centre-right bourgeois parties that supported Giscard d'Estaing's presidency formed a long-term alliance in 1978, the Union pour la démocratie française (UDF), of which Lecanuet was chairman for the following ten years. As an Atlanticist, a convinced European and a supporter of the United States of Europe, he was also elected a member of the European Parliament in 1979.[7] There he sat in the Christian Democratic Group of the European People's Party (EPP). From 1987 to 1988 he was a board member of the EPP group and chairman of the European Parliament delegation for relations with the Gulf States. At the 1992 referendum on the EU Maastricht Treaty, he vigorously campaigned for a "yes".[8]
Events Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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| Bilderberg/1965 | 2 April 1965 | 4 April 1965 | Italy Villa d'Este | The 14th Bilderberg meeting, held in Italy |
| Bilderberg/1966 | 25 March 1966 | 27 March 1966 | Germany Wiesbaden Hotel Nassauer Hof | Top of the agenda of the 15th Bilderberg in Wiesbaden, Germany, was the restructuring of NATO. Since this discussion was held, all permanent holders of the position of NATO Secretary General have attended at least one Bilderberg conference prior to their appointment. |
References
- ↑ https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,843440-1,00.html
- ↑ Gaël Moullec, « De l'Atlantique à l'Oural : de Gaulle et l'Union soviétique », La Nouvelle Revue d'histoire, no 82 de janvier-février 2016, p. 54-5
- ↑ https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/presidentielle-quatre-points-communs-avec-l-election-de-1965-9427429
- ↑ https://books.google.com/books?id=8IIma1ABc8QC
- ↑ https://www.lemonde.fr/archives/article/1960/11/18/la-commission-paritaire-sur-la-force-de-frappe-n-a-pu-parvenir-a-un-accord_2095844_1819218.html
- ↑ https://www.jstor.org/stable/45311474?read-now=1&seq=4#page_scan_tab_contents page 204
- ↑ https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/presidentielle-quatre-points-communs-avec-l-election-de-1965-9427429
- ↑ https://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.senat.fr%2Fcomptes-rendus-seances%2F5eme%2Fpdf%2F1992%2F06%2Fs19920602_1417_1451.pdf
