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Biography of Edouard Balladur
Name: Edouard Balladur
Birth Date: 1929
Death Date: N/A
Place of Birth: Smyrna, Turkey
Nationality: French
Gender: Male
Occupations: premier, prime minister
Edouard Balladur
Edouard Balladur (born 1929) took the leadership of the French Government in March 1993, after a long career in civil service and, beginning in 1986, in politics. After an unsuccessful bid for the presidency in 1995, Balladur retired from the public spotlight.Edouard Balladur became premier (prime minister) of the French Government in March 1993. After his election he distinguished himself perhaps more for his highly unusual popularity in the midst of deep economic crisis than for the solutions he attempted for France's economic woes.Balladur became premier after conservative parties, including his own Gaullist Rally for the Republic (RPR), inflicted a resounding election defeat on the incumbent Socialists. As a result, Socialist President François Mitterrand found himself compelled, for the second time in his presidential career, to appoint a head of government from an adversary party. However, due to Balladur's conciliatory posture and personality, this second episode in cohabitation proved far less …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…cabinet ministers. Jacques Chirac, an old friend and colleague of Balladur, ultimately won the presidency, but the friendship between the two was dissolved in the contest. Remaining an aspiring president, Balladur has caused controversy by calling for an independent committee in 1998 to examine the idea of "national preference," whereby French citizens (meaning white Frenchmen) would be given priority over foreigners (those of darker skin) in jobs, public housing, and welfare. Further Reading The only sources on Edouard Balladur in English are books on the Mitterrand presidency and/or national newspapers and magazines. For Balladur's role in the first cohabitation cabinet see Julius W. Friend, Seven Years in France: François Mitterrand and the Unintended Revolution, 1981-1988 (1989); for the experience of that Gaullist cabinet in general see Wayne Northcutt, Mitterrand: A Political Biography (1992).The Economist, March 12, 1994; September 17, 1994; October 22, 1994; February 25, 1995; March 11, 1995.National Review,, March 21, 1994. Insight on the News, May 9, 1994. The Nation, February 7, 1994.
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