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Cresson, Edith
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née Campion
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pronunciation:
[kresõ]
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| French stateswoman and prime minister (1991–2), born in Boulogne-Billancourt, NC France. She studied at the School of Higher Commercial Studies, joined the Socialist Party (1965), was Mayor of Thure (1977), and was appointed the first female agriculture minister (1981). She subsequently held a number of government posts before achieving the distinction of becoming France's first woman prime minister, under the presidency of Mitterrand. Always an outspoken figure, she lost public support and resigned. In 1995 she became a member of the European Commission, but was forced to resign (1999), together with all her fellow commissioners, following a highly critical report on maladministration in the European bureaucracy. In 2003 she was charged with corruption, along with several members of her former staff. |
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