Édouard Balladur

Édouard Balladur
Balladur in 1993
Prime Minister of France
In office
29 March 1993  17 May 1995
PresidentFrançois Mitterrand
Preceded byPierre Bérégovoy
Succeeded byAlain Juppé
Minister of Finance
In office
20 March 1986  12 May 1988
Prime MinisterJacques Chirac
Preceded byPierre Bérégovoy
Succeeded byPierre Bérégovoy
General Secretary of the President
In office
5 April 1973  2 April 1974
PresidentGeorges Pompidou
Preceded byMichel Jobert
Succeeded byBernard Beck
Personal details
Born
Édouard Léon Raoul Balladur

(1929-05-02) 2 May 1929
İzmir, Turkey
Political partyLR (2015–present)
Other political
affiliations
UNR (1964–1967)
UDR (1967–1976)
RPR (1976–2002)
UMP (2002–2015)
Spouse
Marie-Josèphe Delacour
(m. 1957)
Children4
EducationAix-Marseille University
Institut d'études politiques de Paris
École nationale d'administration

Édouard Balladur (French: [edwaʁ baladyʁ]; born 2 May 1929) is a French politician who served as Prime Minister of France under François Mitterrand from 29 March 1993 to 17 May 1995. He unsuccessfully ran for president in the 1995 French presidential election, coming in third place.