Nelly Olin
OfficeFrench Minister of the Environment
Term start2005
Term end2007
PresidentJacques Chirac
Prime ministerDominique de Villepin
PredecessorSerge Lepeltier
SuccessorAlain Juppé
Birth date23 March 1941
Birth placeParis, France
Death date26 October 2017 (aged 76)
Death placeMeulan-en-Yvelines, France
PartyUMP

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

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

  1. ^ "Val-d'Oise : l'ancienne maire et ministre Nelly Olin est décédée" [Val-d'Oise : former minister and mayor Nelly Olin is dead] (in French). Le Parisien. 2017-10-27. ISSN 0767-3558. Archived 2019-06-28 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 2022-03-31.
  2. ^ "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] (in French). Yahoo!. Agence France-Presse. 2017-10-27. Archived 2022-03-31 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 2022-03-31.
  3. ^ "L'ancienne ministre Nelly Odin est décédée" [Former minister Nelly Odin is dead] (in French). L'Express. 2017-10-27. ISSN 0245-9949. Archived 2022-03-31 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 2017-10-29.
  4. ^ "Nelly Olin, la vie après la politique" (in French). la-croix.com. 17 April 2017.
  5. ^ "Élections sénatoriales 2004"
  6. ^ "Olin Nelly, ancien sénateur du Val-d'Oise"
  7. ^ "L'ancienne ministre Nelly Odin est décédée" (in French). lexpress.fr. 27 October 2017.
  8. ^ "Nelly Olin claque la porte de la mairie" (in French). Le Parisien. 13 July 2007.
  9. ^ Décret du 30 janvier 2008 portant promotion et nomination,Official Journal of the French Republic, sur Légifrance
  10. ^ "Garges-lès-Gonesse : pluie d’hommages après le décès de l’ancienne maire et ministre Nelly Olin" (in French). LeParisien.fr. 28 October 2017.
  11. ^ "Garges / Meulan : le dernier hommage à Nelly Olin" (in French). LeParisien.fr. 3 November 2017.