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Preceded by
  
Alma mater
  
Education
  
Sciences Po

Political party
  
UMP

Role
  
French Politician


Nationality
  
French

Name
  
Dominique Baudis

Preceded by
  
Pierre Baudis

Occupation
  
JournalistWriter

Succeeded by
  
Dominique Baudis Affaire Algre quand Dominique Baudis luttait contre la rumeur


Born
  
14 April 1947Paris, France (
1947-04-14
)

Died
  
April 10, 2014, Paris, France

Similar People
  
Jacques Toubon, Philippe Douste‑Blazy, Jacques Chirac

Hommage a dominique baudis


Dominique Baudis ([bodi]; 14 April 1947 – 10 April 2014) was the French ombudsman. Formerly a journalist, politician and Mayor of Toulouse, he had been a member of DL and later of the leading centre-right Union for a Popular Movement.

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Early life

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Dominique Baudis was born in Paris. His father, Pierre Baudis, served as the Mayor of Toulouse.

Career

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A journalist, he was a foreign correspondent for TF1 in the Middle East from 1976 to 1977. He was news anchor on TF1 from 1977 to 1980 and from 1980 to 1982 on FR3.

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A member of the CDS (a member of the centre-right UDF, he was elected to replace his father, Pierre Baudis as mayor of Toulouse (Haute-Garonne) in the French municipal elections, 1983. In 1984, he was elected to the European Parliament, in 1986 he became President of the Regional Council of the Midi-Pyrénées, also in 1986 he was elected to the French National Assembly representing Haute-Garonne's 1st constituency. He won re-election in 1988, 1993 and 1997.

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He led the UDF-RPR list in the 1994 European election.

In 2001, Jacques Chirac appointed him President of the Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel (CSA), a post which he held until 2007, when Chirac appointed him President of the Arab World Institute.

In 2009, the UMP nominated him to lead the UMP list in the South-West for the 2009 European election. His list won 26.89% and he was elected to the European Parliament for a third time. For the first time, the Presidential Majority (meaning all the parties gathered around Nicolas Sarkozy) scored four seats in the European Parliament, two more than the Socialist Party, French South-West's leading force. In some urban areas, such as Toulouse, Bordeaux, Bayonne and Montpellier, he scored more than 30%.

In July 2009, he was elected Vice-President of the Commission of Foreign Affairs of the European Parliament, and in November 2009 he was named rapporteur on the Association Agreement with Syria.

Baudis was nominated by the Prime Minister to the new office of Defender of Rights, essentially an ombudsman role, and was appointed by the Council of State with effect from July 2011.

References

Dominique Baudis Wikipedia


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