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Pierre Eugène Bérégovoy ((:pjɛʁ beʁeɡɔvwa); 23 December 1925 – 1 May 1993) was a French Socialist politician. He served as Prime Minister under François Mitterrand from 1992 to 1993. ==Early career== Pierre Bérégovoy was born in Déville-lès-Rouen, Seine-Maritime to a Ukrainian father (original family name ''Береговий'' in Ukrainian or ''Береговой'' in Russian) who had left the Russian Empire after the Russian Civil War, and a French mother. He started his professional life at the age of 16 as a qualified metal worker. He got involved in politics following his activities in the French Resistance – while working at SNCF during World War II. A member of the SFIO Socialist Party and of the trade unions confederation Workers Force, he joined the staff of the Minister of Public Works and Transport, Christian Pineau, as adviser for relations with the trade unons in 1949. One year later, he became technical agent in ''Gaz de France''. In 1959, he left the SFIO and participated in the foundation of the dissident Unified Socialist Party (PSU). He became an adviser of Pierre Mendès-France. In 1967, with Alain Savary, he created the pro-Mendès-France Union of clubs for the renewal of the left. This group joined the renewed Socialist Party (PS) in 1969. He joined the executive group of the party behind François Mitterrand, and participated notably in the negotiations of the ''Common Program'' of the Union of the Left. In 1981, following Mitterrand's election as President of France, he was chosen as Secretary General of the Presidency. One year later, he joined the cabinet as Minister of Social affairs. He was among the Socialist politicians who advised President Mitterrand to leave the European Monetary System in order to continue Socialist economic policy. But in March 1983, Mitterrand listened to his Prime Minister Pierre Mauroy and ratified the change of economic policy. Bérégovoy became Minister of the Economy and Finance, from 1984 to the 1986 Socialist electoral defeat. Elected mayor of Nevers in 1983, and deputy of Nièvre ''département'' in 1986, in the electoral land of Mitterrand, he was manager of the latter’s 1988 presidential campaign. After his re-election, at the time of each cabinet reshuffle, his name was mentioned as a possible Prime Minister. In the end, he returned to the Ministry of the Economy and Finance. In this function, he symbolized the adaptation of French socialism to the market economy and struck up hearty relations with employer representatives. After the 1992 regional elections, which were a disaster for the PS, he was finally appointed Prime Minister. He promised to fight unemployment, economic decline and corruption. During his inaugural speech in the French National Assembly, he claimed he knew the names of politicians from the right-wing opposition implicated in corruption scandals, causing a great hue and cry. Bérégovoy forced Bernard Tapie, his Minister of Urban Affairs, to resign in May 1992 after his indictment by the French justice. He thus created the misnamed "Balladur jurisprudence".〔(La mise en examen de M. Santini n'a pas empêché sa nomination au gouvernement ), ''Le Monde'', 22 June 2007 〕 In social policy, the Bérégovoy government introduced free health care for recipients of RMI〔International review of comparative public policy by Nicholas Mercuro, Philip R. Smith, and Thomas Donley〕 and in November 1992 a law was passed that inserted a (arguably narrow) definition of sexual harassment into the labour code and empowered the labour inspectorate and workplace committees to enforce it.〔(Integrating Gender: Women, Law and Politics in the European Union )〕 In May 1992, increased aid was provided to farmers, mainly comprising reductions in the agricultural land tax and increased grants for young farmers.〔http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/economics/oecd-economic-surveys-france-1992_eco_surveys-fra-1992-en〕 In June 1992, the French parliament passed a bill which required mayors to encourage social mixing in public housing.〔http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=nV1JfnbjXVgC&pg=PA275&dq=michel+rocard+government+social+transfers&hl=en&sa=X&ei=UjnEU7zNHKmV7AbCxYG4Aw&ved=0CD0Q6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=michel%20rocard%20government%20social%20transfers&f=false〕 He resigned after the Socialist electoral collapse of the March 1993 legislative election. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pierre Bérégovoy」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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