Everything about Philippe Douste-blazy totally explained
Philippe Douste-Blazy (born on
1 January,
1953) was the
Foreign Minister of
France in the cabinet of
Dominique de Villepin.
Douste-Blazy is also a
cardiologist and
Christian Democrat politician from
Lourdes. Formerly from the
UDF party, he joined the
Union for a Popular Movement. His principal former elected positions were
mayor of Lourdes and
mayor of
Toulouse.
He studied medicine in Toulouse, where he'd his first job in 1976. He then worked as a
cardiologist in Lourdes and Toulouse, namely in Purpan's hospital from 1986. He then joined the French Society of
Cardiology. He became Professor of Medicine in
Toulouse Sciences University in 1988.
He entered politics in March 1989, being elected mayor of Lourdes and then Member of the
European Parliament in June of the same year. He was then a member of the
European People's Party. This year was also the one of his election as national director of the association of research against elevations of
cholesterol.
At the end of 1993, he was made Minister-Delegate (a junior minister) at the Ministry for Health, after being elected Deputy in April. He stayed at this ministry until the
1995 presidential election. In March 1994, he was elected at
Hautes-Pyrénées's General Council. He became general secretary of
Democratic and Social Centre in December.
In January 1995, after the election of
Jacques Chirac as President of the French Republic, a candidature he was backing, he was back as Minister of Health and Government's spokesman. Five months later, he became
Minister of Culture. In June, he was also elected Mayor of Lourdes. By the end of November, he was elected general secretary of
Democratic Force.
In June 1997, the overwhelming defeat of Conservatives during general elections made him lose his position as Minister of Culture, but he remained deputy of Hautes-Pyrénées and became president of the
UDF parliamentary group at the
French National Assembly. During the election campaign he was badly hurt when a mentally unstable man stabbed him in the back as he was campaigning in Lourdes. It turned out that the Minister's assailant was an Albanian refugee who had already tried to attack Mr Douste-Blazy in 1992.
He was elected Mayor of
Toulouse in 2001, to resign in 2004 to become
Minister of Health.
Douste-Blazy announced his support for the Israeli separation barrier on
25 October 2006.
On February 20th 2008, Philippe Douste-Blazy has been appointed as UN special adviser on innovative financing for development, with the rank of UN undersecretary-general, following his experience as chairman of UNITAID, a UN organization specialized on drugs purchase financing for developping countries.
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