Nelly Olin
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Nelly Olin | |
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| French Minister of the Environment | |
| In office 2005–2007 | |
| President | Jacques Chirac |
| Prime Minister | Dominique de Villepin |
| Preceded by | Serge Lepeltier |
| Succeeded by | Alain Juppé |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 23 March 1941 |
| Died | 26 October 2017 (aged 76) Meulan-en-Yvelines, France |
| Party | UMP |
Nelly Olin (23 March 1941 – 26 October 2017)[1] was a Minister of Environment in France from 2005 to 2007, as part of the cabinet of prime minister Dominique de Villepin.[2] Earlier, from 2004 to 2005, Olin had been the Minister-Delegate for Social Security. She has also been a Senator for Val-d'Oise. She died on 26 October 2017, aged 76.[3]
Biography
[edit]The daughter of a cleaning lady and a workshop manager,[4] a graduate of the École Nationale de Commerce, and an executive assistant,[5][6] she was elected mayor of Garges-lès-Gonesse in June 1995 and, three months later in September, senator (UMP) for Val-d'Oise.
A member of the Senate Delegation for Women's Rights and Equal Opportunities for Men and Women, she has held a number of local offices, including Regional Council of Île-de-France and vice-president of the Val-d'Oise General Council.
Between 1999 and 2004, she was chair of the parliamentary study group on the fight against drugs and drug addiction.[7]
In 2003, she was a member of the Stasi Commission on Secularism.
Minister Delegate for Combating Precariousness and Exclusion, then Minister Delegate for Integration, Equal Opportunities and Combating Exclusion in Jean-Pierre Raffarin's government (3), she became Ministry of Ecological Transition (France) and Sustainable Development in Dominique de Villepin's government on 2 June 2005, a position she may owe to her past work as a member of the National Noise Council.
On 30 December 2004, she created the French Equal Opportunities and Anti-Discrimination Commission.
On 13 July 2007, Nelly Olin resigned from her position as first deputy mayor of the municipality of Garges-lès-Gonesse.[8] On 5 October, she decided to leave politics and announced her decision to her supporters in the UMP party in Garges.
From 2007 to 2015, she was involved in the Christophe Bridou case, a former municipal police officer who accused her of slanderous denunciation of pedophilia, which led to his dismissal in 2002.
Nelly Olin was made a Knight of the Legion of Honour in 2008.[9]
She lived in Meulan-en-Yvelines, where the mayor, Cécile Zammit-Popescu, is her niece. She died on 26 October 2017, at her home after a long illness[10] and was buried in the cemetery in Garges-les-Gonesse.[11]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Val-d'Oise : l'ancienne maire et ministre Nelly Olin est décédée" [Val-d'Oise : former minister and mayor Nelly Olin is dead]. Le Parisien (in French). 27 October 2017. ISSN 0767-3558. Archived from the original on 28 June 2019. Retrieved 31 March 2022.
- ↑ "Mort de Nelly Olin, l'ancienne ministre de l'Écologie de Jacques Chirac" [Death of Nelly Olin, the former Minister of Ecology of Jacques Chirac]. Yahoo! (in French). Agence France-Presse. 27 October 2017. Retrieved 31 March 2022.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link) - ↑ "L'ancienne ministre Nelly Odin est décédée" [Former minister Nelly Odin is dead]. L'Express (in French). 27 October 2017. ISSN 0245-9949. Retrieved 29 October 2017.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link) - ↑ "Nelly Olin, la vie après la politique" (in French). la-croix.com. 17 April 2017.
- ↑ "Élections sénatoriales 2004".
- ↑ "Olin Nelly, ancien sénateur du Val-d'Oise".
- ↑ "L'ancienne ministre Nelly Odin est décédée" (in French). lexpress.fr. 27 October 2017.
- ↑ "Nelly Olin claque la porte de la mairie". Le Parisien (in French). 13 July 2007.
- ↑ Décret du 30 janvier 2008 portant promotion et nomination,Official Journal of the French Republic, sur Légifrance
- ↑ "Garges-lès-Gonesse : pluie d'hommages après le décès de l'ancienne maire et ministre Nelly Olin" (in French). LeParisien.fr. 28 October 2017.
- ↑ "Garges / Meulan : le dernier hommage à Nelly Olin" (in French). LeParisien.fr. 3 November 2017.
