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Jean-Marie Bockel (born June 22, 1950 in Strasbourg) has been Secretary of State for Defence and Veterans in the government of Prime Minister François Fillon since 18 March 2008, having previously been Secretary of State for Cooperation and La Francophonie since June 2007. He has been a member of the French National Assembly since 1981, when he stood as a Socialist Party candidate, and was Minister for Commerce in the Socialist Party government of Laurent Fabius between 1984 and 1986.
Bockel (commonly referred to at "JMB" in France) is a lawyer and has been mayor of Mulhouse since 1989. On the right wing of the Socialist Party, he declared himself to be an admirer and strong supporter of the policies of Tony Blair.
In November 2007 he announced the formation of a new centre-left political party, Modern Left (Gauche Moderne), following his resignation from the Socialist Party when joining the Sarkozy administration, and is using this party as a vehicle to campaign in the municipal elections of 2008 for a fourth term as mayor.
Born on 22 June 1950 in Strasbourg (Bas-Rhin)
Cursus
* Certificate of suitability for the profession of lawyer
* Master of Private Law
Careers
* Barrister, Mulhouse, since 1973
Elective
* Elected Deputy Chairman of the Community of agglomeration of Mulhouse Sud Alsace, 2005
* Senator of the Upper Rhine, from 2004 to 2007
* Member of the Upper Rhine, from 1981 to 1984 and from 1986 to 1993 and from 1997 to 2002
* President of the Association of Mayors of major cities in France from 2001 to 2007
* Chairman of the Community of agglomeration of Mulhouse Sud Alsace (Haut-Rhin), from 2001 to 2005
* Mayor of Mulhouse (Haut-Rhin), since 1989
* Mulhouse City Councilor from 1983 to 1989
* General Council of Haut-Rhin from 1982 to 1989 and from 1994 to 1997
* Regional Council of Alsace from 1981 to 1984
Functions
* Secretary of State for Defense and Veterans Affairs to the Minister of Defense since March 2008
* Secretary of State for Cooperation and Francophony, from June 2007 to March 2008
* Minister of Commerce, Handicrafts and Tourism, from February to March 1986
* Secretary of State to the Minister of Commerce, Handicrafts and Tourism from 1984 to 1986
Other functions
* Elected president of the Federation of Railway Industries in 2005
* Appointed Member of the Central Committee of the High Council for Integration in 1995
* Member of the Central Committee of the League of Human Rights from 1977 to 1980
Last book published
* The third left, a small social-liberal manifesto. Val de France Editions, 1999
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