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{{Short description|French politician, lawyer, and entrepreneur}}{{Multiple issues|{{Expand French|Arnaud Montebourg|date=April 2023}}{{BLP sources|date=June 2022}}}}{{EngvarB|date=May 2014}}{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2021}}

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for Saône-et-Loire's Saône-et-Loire's 6th constituency>6th constituency|term_start2 = 12 June 1997|term_end2 = 16 June 2012|predecessor2 = René Beaumont|successor2 = Rémi Chaintron196230|df=y}}Clamecy, Nièvre>Clamecy, France|death_date = |death_place = Socialist Party (France)>Socialist Party (1985–2018)(1997–2010)}}Amina Walter {{nowrap|(m. 2021)}}Audrey Pulvar {{nowrap>(2010–2012)}}Aurélie Filippetti {{nowrap|(2014–2017)}}University of BurgundyParis 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University>Panthéon-Sorbonne UniversitySciences PoINSEAD|occupation = Lawyer}}Arnaud Montebourg ({{IPA-fr|aʁno mɔ̃tbuʁ}}; born 30 October 1962) is a French politician, lawyer and entrepreneur who served as the Minister of Industrial Renewal from 2012 to 2014,« Comment Arnaud Montebourg a cultivé sa propre ligne économique », Le Monde, 11 July 2014, corrected on 25 August 2014. then as Minister of Economy, Industrial Renewal, and Digital Affairs, 31 March 2014 until his resignation on 25 August."Démission du gouvernement : Montebourg rétablit sa vérité", Le Point (in French), 6 October 2014.He is a former member of the Socialist Party (PS), which he left in 2018.He previously served as the member of the National Assembly for the 6th constituency of Saône-et-Loire from 1997 until 2012, and President of the General Council of Saône-et-Loire from 2008 to 2012.In 2021, he announced his candidacy for the French presidential election of 2022, before stepping down three months before the election.

Early life and education

Montebourg was born on 30 October 1962, in the French commune of Clamecy, in Nièvre region. His father, Michel Montebourg, who was a tax inspector for the Ministry of Economy and Finances, was born in 1933. His mother, Leïla Ould Cadi, who was born in 1939 in Algeria, was of Algerian and French descent; she was born into a family of wālis (governors) from Hachem in Northern Algeria.In an interview to an Algerian electronic newspaper in February 2010, Montebourg said, "My grandfather is Algerian. His name was Khermiche Ould Cadi. He is from a family of the Mascara plain, from Dombasle to be precise. "Mon grand père est Algérien. Il s'appelait Khermiche Ould Cadi. Il est issu d'une famille de la plaine de Mascara, de Dombasle, exactement.", in: NEWS,weblink La France n'a aucune raison de ne pas regarder en face ce qu'elle a été, Guemache, Lounes, 25 February 2010, Tout sur l'Algérie (TSA), fr, 18 August 2010,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20140328052400weblink">weblink 28 March 2014, dead, ; the town named Dombasle during the colonization bears now the name of Hachem His Algerian grandfather fought in the French Army during World War II. His Algerian great-grandfather, Ahmed Ould Cadi, who was an agha (chieftain), fought against the Ottoman caliphate before joining the French Army. He was appointed Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour in 1867.Guy Benhamou, Arnaud Montebourg, l'ambition à tout prix, Stock, 2004, p.12Biography of Ahmed Ould Cadi in Le livre d'or de l'Algérie, A. Challamel, 1890, pp. 499–507Décret impérial 10499, 1860.He began working as an attorney with notable attorney Thierry Levy.He has worked in several publicized cases. In 1995, he worked as the lawyer of Christian Didier, assassin of René Bousquet.MARY DEJEVSKY, "Killer's tale stirs ghosts of Vichy", The Independent (UK), 7 November 1995, 28 May 2012 Bousquet was a former Vichy official who had been indicted for war crimes and was soon to be tried. Didier was convicted in 1995 and received a 10-year sentence.Gary Borg, "Writer Sentenced In Vichy Slaying", Chicago Tribune, 14 November 1995. Retrieved 28 May 2012 Didier did not want to be considered insane, so Montebourg helped get the court to recognize him as responsible for the act.

First involvements in politics

Montebourg was first elected to the National Assembly during the 1997 legislative election. He was reelected in 2002 and in 2007.In 2001, Together with Bastien François, a professor of Political Science at Pantheon-Sorbonne University, Montebourg became the cofounder of the Convention pour la VI-ème République (C6R). This convention called for significant constitutional changes, and for a Sixth French Republic. Its objectives were to decrease the power of the president and allow a parliamentary balance.Montebourg was one of the founding members of the political movement known as the Nouveau Parti Socialiste (New Socialist Party), where he defended economical protectionism and sovereignty. When the movement ended due to internal difficulties, he created a new movement within the Socialist Party called Rénover, Maintenant (Renewal, Now). He was one of the leading opponents of President Jacques Chirac's immunity from prosecution, especially concerning the corruption scandals in the Paris region.Montebourg, also supported reporter Denis Robert for his role in revealing the illegal system of double-accounts maintained by Clearstream, a clearing-house based in Luxembourg, involving high-ranking politicians. He has also been engaged in a campaign against the rules governing taxation of foreign nationals and the banking secrecy of Switzerland."Swiss and French squabble over tax", Al Jazeera, 6 January 2007.File:Arnaud Montebourg - Royal & Zapatero's meeting in Toulouse for the 2007 French presidential election 0043 2007-04-19.jpg|thumb|left|Arnaud Montebourg during a meeting by Ségolène Royal and José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero in Toulouse for the 2007 presidential election.]]Montebourg was appointed as spokesman for Ségolène Royal's presidential campaign following his endorsement of her candidacy during the Socialist Party primary election in November 2006. On 18 January 2007, Royal suspended him from her campaign for one month the day after he gave an interview on a Canal+ talk show, where he said, "Ségolène Royal has only one fault, her partner.""Royal rétablit l'ordre juste en suspendant Montebourg", Le Figaro, 18 January 2007 {{in lang|fr}}. He was referring to the contradictory statements on tax policy made by Royal's partner, François Hollande, who was at the time serving as First Secretary of the Socialist Party. Montebourg had offered his resignation, which Royal refused to accept.(File:Arnaud Montebourg - Assemblee Nationale 2008.jpg|thumb|Arnaud Montebourg in 2008)File:Arnaud Montebourg à Blanzy.jpg|thumb|Montebourg speaking to constituents in BlanzyBlanzyIn 2008, Monteboug became President of the General Council of Saône-et-Loire, while at the same time retaining his mandate as a parliamentarian. In 2011, when Dominique Strauss-Kahn was released from prison and flown back to France, Montebourg urged him to apologise for embarrassing the Socialist Party."Strauss-Kahn regrets 'moral failing'" {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110919164823weblink |date=19 September 2011 }}, Hindustan Times, 19 September 2011

Minister during the presidency of François Hollande

Montebourg finished third in the Socialist Party's primary election for the 2012 presidential election, receiving about 17% of the vote. François Hollande finished first and Martine Aubry finished second. After Hollande was elected President of France, Montebourg was appointed as Minister of Industrial Renewal on 16 May 2012 in the government of Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault .Profile: Hollande's government for France, BBC News, 16 May 2012.Montebourg defended nuclear energy, considering it "an industry of the future" despite the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. On national interests in international trade alliances, Montebourg made further controversial statements about Lakshmi Mittal by declaring that "Mittal's lies since 2006 are overwhelming…he has never kept his word", urging him to leave the country: "We no longer want Mittal in France because they don't respect France."Montebourg considered the General Electric takeover of Alstom a risk to French sovereignty. He notably introduced a decree, the décret Alstom, nicknamed décret Montebourg by the press, extending the French state's right to veto foreign takeovers of assets in the energy, water, transport, telecommunication, public health sectors.{{citation| url =weblink| title = Décret n° 2014-479 du 14 mai 2014 relatif aux investissements étrangers soumis à autorisation préalable | date = 16 May 2014|work = www.legifrance.gouv.fr|language = fr}}{{citation| url =weblink | title = Décret Alstom: une "mauvaise idée" pour Gattaz, la Commission européenne attentive| date = 15 May 2014| work =www.boursier.com|language = fr}}{{citation| url=https://www.reuters.com/article/france-takeovers-idUKL1N0O02AC20140515| title = France grabs for power over Alstom future with new takeover law (update 5)| date = 15 May 2014| work = www.reuters.com}}{{citation| url=http://www.lemonde.fr/les-decodeurs/article/2014/05/16/au-fait-c-est-quoi-ce-decret-sur-les-investissements-strategiques_4419342_4355770.html?xtmc=alstom&xtcr=2| title = Au fait, c'est quoi ce décret sur les " investissements stratégiques " ?| work = www.lemonde.fr| date = 16 May 2014| language =fr}} Montebourg was quoted as saying the decree protected France's strategic interests and represented the end of laissez-faire economic policy.{{citation| url=http://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2014/05/15/arnaud-montebourg-le-decret-sur-les-entreprises-c-est-du-laisser-faire_4419368_823448.html?xtmc=alstom&xtcr=9| title = Montebourg: " Le décret sur les entreprises, c'est la fin du laisser-faire "| date = 15 May 2014|first1=David Revault| last1 = d'Allonnes |first2= Cedric|last2= Pietralunga| language = fr| work = www.lemonde.fr| quote = Le choix que nous avons fait, avec le premier ministre, est un choix de patriotisme économique. Ces mesures de protection des intérêts stratégiques de la France sont une reconquête de notre puissance. C'est la fin du laisser-faire}}On 11 February 2014, Montebourg was among the guests invited to the state dinner hosted by U.S. President Barack Obama in honor of Hollande at the White House.Expected Attendees at Tonight’s State Dinner Office of the First Lady of the United States, press release of 11 February 2014.On 28 May 2014, Montebourg said that if the United Kingdom "were to vote to leave the EU, France will roll out the red carpet to British investors who will flee their country. They will all come to France because companies need Europe.""France to 'roll out red carpet' to British investors", The Telegraph, 27 May 2014.Nevertheless, he supports a balance between the EU's interests and states' interests.

Businesses

In October 2014, Montebourg enrolled in the INSEAD graduate business school for a four-week course and sought a bursary for his studies.Marie-Pierre Haddad, "Arnaud Montebourg intègre l'école de commerce Insead et demande une bourse" [archive], rtl.fr, 31 October 2014. Retrieved 19 September 2015.Between 16 and 26 February 2015, he was invited as a visiting professor of economics at Princeton University."Montebourg va donner des cours d'économie aux États-Unis" [archive], lejdd.fr, 11 February 2015. Retrieved 19 September 2015. On 19 March 2015, he was appointed vice president of the supervisory board of the furniture chain Habitat.Soizic Briand, Hervé Giaoui: "Pourquoi j'ai embauché Arnaud Montebourg" [archive], Challenges, 19 March 2015. Retrieved 19 September 2015. On 26 March, the French-based consulting and business analyst company, Talan, announced that Montebourg had been given a place on its strategic policy committee."Montebourg. Après Habitat, il va conseiller la société Talan" [archive], sur ouest-france.fr, 26 March 2015. Retrieved 19 September 2015.

Candidacy in the 2017 presidential election

On 21 August 2016, he announced his plans to run as a candidate for the Socialist Party's presidential nomination in the 2017 presidential election."Maverick Montebourg enters French presidential race", Agence France-Presse, 21 August 2016. He finished third with 17.8% of the vote.

Candidacy in the 2022 presidential election

File:Annonce de la candidature d'Arnaud Montebourg à l'élection présidentielle de 2022 (Clamecy) - dédicace à la Brasserie de la Canoterie. (3).jpg|thumb|Montebourg in Clamecy in 2021]]On 4 September 2021, after having taken a step back from politics in 2017, Montebourg announced his candidacy in the 2022 presidential election from his home town of Clamecy, without going through a party primary election.WEB, fr, Lilian, Alemagna, Présidentielle: Montebourg lancera sa candidature le 4 septembre,weblink Libération, 16 August 2021, 16 August 2021, His supporters included the Citizen and Republican Movement, founded by Jean-Pierre Chevènement, the former Socialist minister Laurence Rossignol, Socialist senators Mickaël Vallet and Jean-Claude Tissot, demographer Emmanuel Todd, economist Gaël Giraud, politologist Thomas Guénolé and economist and entrepreneur Valentin Przyluski.WEB, fr, Présidentielle: Montebourg, " un candidat qui peut réconcilier classes populaires et classes moyennes ",weblink publicsenat.fr, 25 August 2021, 27 August 2021, NEWS, fr, Présidentielle 2022: Arnaud Montebourg se lance en candidat du " monde d'après ", Le Monde.fr, 20 August 2021,weblink 27 August 2021, He withdrew from the race on 20 January 2022, after failing to gain momentum. He did not endorse other candidates.WEB, Basso, Davide, 2022-01-20, Montebourg withdraws from French presidential elections,weblink 2022-01-22, www.euractiv.com, en-GB,

Personal life

Montebourg lived from 2010 to 2012 with journalist Audrey Pulvar and from 2014 until 2017 with fellow minister Aurélie Filippetti, with whom he has a daughter, Jeanne, born in September 2015.WEB, fr,weblink Aurélie Filippetti a accouché d'une petite Jeanne, nous apprend le "JDD", 15 September 2015, tempsreel.nouvelobs.com, 6 April 2020, In February 2015, Montebourg was called a hero for saving several fellow diners in the New York City brasserie Balthazar from serious injury by single-handedly holding up a large mirror which had fallen from the restaurant's ceiling.NEWS,weblink Heroic Former French Minister Saved Diners From Being Crushed by Balthazar's Falling Mirror, Eater NY, 8 February 2018, NEWS,weblink Arnaud Montebourg, ce "French superman" héros de l'accident du miroir géant, 20 February 2015, LExpress.fr, 8 February 2018, fr,

References

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External links

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• {{Official website|www.arnaudmontebourg.fr}} {{in lang|fr}}
• Webpage from the National Assembly site {{in lang|fr}}
• Michael C. Behrent, "Stop the World": Arnaud Montebourg and "Deglobalization"(blog post)

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