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8 unusual facts about Philippe Douste-Blazy


Cumul des mandats

This rule was more or less upheld by Jacques Chirac during the governments of Jean-Pierre Raffarin and Dominique de Villepin for the 2002-2007 term, with a few notable exceptions (Jean-François Copé was mayor of Meaux, Nicolas Sarkozy was President of the Hauts-de-Seine General Council); for instance, Philippe Douste-Blazy had to step down from the Toulouse mayorship upon joining the government.

Daniel Altman

His previous books are Power in Numbers: UNITAID, Innovative Financing, and the Quest for Massive Good, co-authored with Philippe Douste-Blazy and published in 2010 by PublicAffairs; Neoconomy: George Bush's Revolutionary Gamble with America's Future, also published by PublicAffairs, in 2004; and Connected: 24 Hours in the Global Economy, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2007.

Jean-Luc Moudenc

Moudenc was elected by the municipal council after the elevation of his predecessor, Philippe Douste-Blazy, to Minister of Health.

Philippe Douste-Blazy

Member of the Centre of Social Democrats (CDS), the Christian Democrat component of the Union for French Democracy (UDF), he entered politics in March 1989, being elected mayor of Lourdes and then Member of the European Parliament in June of the same year.

Philippe Douste-Blazy (born on 1 January 1953 in Lourdes, Hautes-Pyrénées) is a French centre-right politician.

Indeed, his predecessor Jean-François Mattéi was discredited in due to his behaviour during the Summer 2003 heatwave crisis.

In June, he was also re-elected Mayor of Lourdes then, five months later, elected general secretary of Democratic Force, the party which replaced the CDS .

Poverty in France

April 2005 report on poverty in France by Emmaüs given by its president Martin Hirsch to the ministre des Solidarités, de la Santé et de la Famille Philippe Douste-Blazy



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