Thursday 1er June 2023, Alain Madelin, former Minister of the Economy, was the guest of “Face aux territories” on TV5 Monde.
By The Point.fr
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VSth Thursday 1er June 2023, at 9:30 a.m., Alain Madelin was the guest of the show ace to the territories TV5 World/West France. He answered questions from Cyril Viguier, presenter of the show, as well as journalists from West-France, Nice Morning And Point.
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Aged 77 today, the former deputy and mayor of Redon (Ille-et-Vilaine) held several ministerial responsibilities under François Mitterrand and Jacques Chirac. First Minister of Industry, Posts and Telecommunications and Tourism between 1986 and 1988, then Minister of Business and Economic Development from 1993 to 1995, and finally Minister of Economy and Finance from May to August 1995. Alain Madelin was a member of the Republican Party and of the UDF. In the summer of 1997, he transformed the Republican Party into a Liberal Democracy, a party of which he remained president until 2002. In 2007, he announced his retirement from political life.
“The huge project is the reform of the state and our political institutions,” said Alain Madelin. “But obviously, the government does not want to touch it,” observes Alain Madelin. “Too many laws and an omnipresent State that we should know how to reform”, insists Alain Madelin.READ ALSO Philippe Raynaud: “Macron and the danger of centralization”