Jean Leonetti

Jean Leonetti is a French politician born on9 July 1948In Marseille ( Bouches-du-Rhône ). Former Vice-President of the Radical Party 1 then of the UMP , current member of the Republicans , he has been mayor of Antibes since 1995 and deputy of Alpes-Maritimes since 1997 2 . He is best known for his name given to the Leonetti law of 22 April 2005 on the rights of the sick and the end of life . He was also Minister for European Affairs of the29 Jun 2011 To May 10 , 2012.

Biography

Doctor cardiologist training still in office, Jean Leonetti is mayor of the city of Antibes from 1995 ( 4 ^th order). He becomes a member of the 7 ^th district of Alpes-Maritimes during the 1997 legislative elections , garnering the second round 72.96% of votes cast in a duel with the candidate of the National Front Robert Crépin (27.04%) ³ . He was re-elected in the 7 ^th district of Alpes-Maritimes in the first round during the 2002 legislative with 53.1% ⁴ , of the 2007 legislative elections with 63.99% of the vote ⁵ , and legislative in 2012 with 51,10 % ⁶ .

It is one of the vice presidents UMP group in the National Assembly during the XIII ^th legislature of the Fifth Republic ⁷ . He was reappointed to the position on 26 June 2012, for the XIV ^th legislature , with eight other members ⁸ . Of the twelve deputies of the Radical Party of Valois , he is one of the seven who sit in the UMP group rather than in the group of the Union of Democrats and Independents chaired by Jean-Louis Borloo .

A long time deputy president of the Radical Party, he resigns from this position on July 4, 2012, no longer in agreement with the line of the party that claims autonomy from the UMP ^{9 , 10} . Jean Leonetti is indeed in favor of maintaining the PR in the UMP ⁹ . He remains a member of the Radical Party ⁹ .

From spring 2010 until June 2011, he chaired the Fédération hospitalière de France .

On June 29, 2011, he was appointed Minister for European Affairs , with the Minister of State, Minister for Foreign and European Affairs , in the third Francois Fillon government . He was replaced in the National Assembly by his deputy Michel Rossi .

On 20 August 2012, he announced that he supported François Fillon at the congress for the presidency of the UMP ¹¹ . Moreover, it deposits with other personalities the policy statement of the movement modern and humanist France ¹² . On February 3, 2013, he was appointed vice-president of the UMP (under the “movements”) and member of the commission of revision of the statutes of the party ¹³ .

In 2014, at the Congress for the presidency of the UMP following the resignation of Jean-Francois Cope, he argues Bruno Le Maire to the party presidency ¹⁴ .

He supports Alain Juppé for the presidential primary of the Republicans of 2016 ¹⁵ .

Parliamentary work

Jean Leonetti, who is very involved in ethical issues , particularly medical issues, chaired the “Parliamentary Mission on End of Life Support” in 2004, which led to the drafting of a Léonetti 1 report on 30 June 2004 This report contains, among other things, the needs of health professionals and the population regarding the end of life.

This first report leads to the ” Law on the rights of the sick and the end of life ” n ° 2005-370 of22 April 2005which he was the rapporteur in Parliament ¹⁶ . This mission was entrusted to him by President Jacques Chirac and the Raffarin government following the Vincent Humbert case of 2003.

On March 5, 2003, he initiated a proposal, not discussed at the time, to recognize “the positive work of all our citizens who lived in Algeria during the French presence period” co-signed by 107 other MPs ¹⁷.

In 2008, following the Chantal Sébire affair , Jean Léonetti drafted a second report to evaluate the law of 22 April 2005.

Detail of duties and mandates

Local mandates

• 25 June 1995 - 18 March 2001 : Mayor of Antibes
• 19 March 2001 - 9 March 2008 : Mayor of Antibes
• 10 March 2008 - 23 March 2014 : Mayor of Antibes
• since 24 March 2014 : Mayor of Antibes (elected in the first round with 63.16% of the votes)
• 1 ^st January 2001 - 16 March 2008 : President of the community of agglomeration of Sophia Antipolis
• Re-elected April 18 , 2008 : President of the community of agglomeration of Sophia Antipolis

Terms of Reference

• 12 June 1997 - 18 June 2002 : Member of the 7 ^th district of Alpes-Maritimes
• 19 June 2002 - 19 June 2007 : Member of the 7 ^th district of Alpes-Maritimes
• 20 June 2007 - 29 July 2011 : Member of the 7 ^th district of Alpes-Maritimes
• since 20 June 2012 : Member of the 7 ^th district of Alpes-Maritimes

Government

• 29 Jun 2011 - May 10 , 2012 : Minister to the Minister of State, Minister for Foreign and European Affairs, in charge of European Affairs

Other

• 3 February 2013 - 15 June 2014 : Vice-president of the UMP

Publications

• The moderation principle , Michalon editions , 2003 ( ISBN 2841861937 ) .
• Live and Let Die: Respect life, accept death , Michalon editions , 2005 ( ISBN 2841862577 ) .
• The Republic of Values: An Ethics of Politics , Vuibert Publishing , 2006, ( ISBN 2711772993 ) .
• That’s how men die , Plon, 2015.

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