Nora Berra – Wikipedia

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Nora Berra (Born January 21, 1963 in Lyon) is a French politician (formerly UMP/Les Républicains). It was a member of the European Parliament from 2012 to 2014.

Berra is the daughter of an Algerian shooter in the French army. She grew up with ten siblings in the small town of Neuville-sur-Saône, a northern suburb of Lyon. After the Baccalauréat at Collège-Lycée Ampère, she studied in Algerian Oran in Alger and did his doctorate in 1990 as a doctor of medicine. From 1991 to 2009 she worked as a clinical pharmacologist and practical doctor at the Hôpital Édouard-Herriot in Lyon, where she was responsible for examinations of kidney function and later in the clinical immunology department for HIV patients. At the same time, she was a lecturer for nephrology at two Lyon nursing schools from 1992 to 1999. Between 1999 and 2009 she worked for international pharmaceutical companies (Boehringer Ingelheim, Bristol-myers Squibb and Sanofi Pasteur MSD), where she was involved in research on cervical cancer, HIV and hepatitis B. [first]

Berra started her political career at the local level. At the proposal of the then mayor Paul Lafffly (RPR, later REMP), she competed in 2001 for the municipal council election in Neuville-Sur-Saône, her parents’ place of residence. It belonged to the municipal council of the small town near Lyon until 2008. Then she switched to Lyon’s local politics and became the top candidate of the UMP in 2008 in the 8th arrondissement, where she competed against her doctor colleague and superiors, the Vice Mayor Jean-Louis Touraine (PS). She moved into the local council of Lyon, where the REV in opposition was against the socialist mayor Gérard Collomb. From 2010 to 2011 it also belonged to the regional council of Rhône-Alpes. [first]

On June 23, 2009, she was appointed State Secretary for Seniors in the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs (under the Minister Xavier Darcos and Éric Woerth) in the Fillon II cabinet. In November 13, 2010 sworn in Fillon III Cabinet, she received the office of State Secretary for Health (under the Minister Xavier Bertrand). She held this until the change of government in May 2012. [first]

At the 2009 European election, she initially run unsuccessfully, but on June 16, 2012 she moved to the European Parliament for the Damien, who was left. As a member of the Group of the European People’s Party (EPP), BERRA belonged to the Committee on International Trade and was delegates for relationships with the Palestinian Legislative Council. [2] At the 2014 European election, she did not compete for a re -election.

Within the REV, BERRA was deputy chair of the group Friends of Nicolas Sarkozy , who campaigned for a return of the former president to the party leadership. [3] After his election as party leader, Sarkozy Berra appointed a national secretary in December 2014, responsible for the free professions. In May 2015, the party named itself in Les Républicains and Berra was elected to the Politburo. Berra has been a member of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes regional council since January 2016. She supported Nicolas Sarkozy in the area code of the Républicains and their allies in the middle-right spectrum for the 2017 presidential election, but was defeated in the first ballot.

In the parliamentary election in June 2017, Berra started in the 3rd constituency of the Rhône department, but was already eliminated in the first ballot at 13.1%. In December 2017, she declared her exit from the Les Républicains party. She criticized the party’s right pressure under the new chairman Laurent Wauquiez, to whom she accused a “project of the closure”. [4] At the 2019 European election, she competed on the list of the Liberal Union of the Démocrates et Indépendants (Udi) [5] which, however, received no seat.

  1. ↑ a b c Nora Berra, Minister Delegate for Health. Allgov.com.
  2. ↑ Website of the European Parliament
  3. ↑ Nora Berra: Nicolas Sarkozy, a return finally so natural. In: L’Express , 11. June 2014.
  4. ↑ In disagreement with Laurent Wauquiez’s line, Nora Berra leaves LR. In: The world , December 13, 2017.
  5. ↑ Christine Ollivier: Europeans: Nora Berra, ex-LR, will be number 2 on the UDI list. In: Sunday newspaper , March 16, 2019.