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### Viewing cable 05PARIS6744, ALAIN MADELIN SEEKS U.S. SUPPORT FOR HIS CANDIDACY

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05PARIS6744 | 2005-09-30 16:04 | 2011-02-10 08:08 | CONFIDENTIAL | Embassy Paris
Appears in these articles: http://abonnes.lemonde.fr/documents-wikileaks/article/2011/02/09/wikileaks-les-visiteurs-de-l-ambassade_1477418_1446239.htm

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    C O N F I D E N T I A L SECTION 01 OF 02 PARIS 006744

    SIPDIS

    DEPT ALSO FOR EUR/WE, DRL/IL, INR/EUC, INR/B, EUR/ERA,
    EUR/PPD, EB AND IO
    DEPT OF COMMERCE FOR ITA

    E.O. 12958: DECL: 04/07/2015
    TAGS: ECON EU FR IO PGOV PINR SOCI
    SUBJECT: ALAIN MADELIN SEEKS U.S. SUPPORT FOR HIS CANDIDACY
    TO HEAD THE OECD AND HIS PROJECT TO REFORM THE OECD

    Classified By: Ambassador Craig Stapleton for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d)

    SUMMARY
    -------
    ¶1. (C) At a meeting with Ambassador Stapleton on September
    6, former French Finance Minister Alain Madelin solicited
    U.S. support for his candidacy to head the OECD. Madelin
    stressed his commitment to reform of the OECD along the lines
    of the U.S. proposal to that end. Madelin also made the case
    for his preferred future priorities for the OECD --
    furthering globalization, encouraging free and open societies
    in the Muslim world, supporting development in Africa,
    fostering structural reform in European economies, and
    pathfinding into the knowledge era beyond globalization.
    Madelin is the most openly and steadfastly pro-American of
    all major French politicians. He also strongly and publicly
    supported President George W. Bush and America's initiative
    to remove Saddam Hussein from power. Notwithstanding his
    service as a minister (Finance, Telecommunications and
    Tourism, and Small and Medium-sized Business) and his
    founding of a political party dedicated to democratic and
    free-market principles (Liberal Democracy (DL)), Madelin is
    seen in France as a maverick and an outsider -- precisely
    because of his unabashed pro-Americanism and undiluted
    commitment to democracy and free-markets. End Summary.

    REPORTING, NOT ADVOCATING, MADELIN'S CANDIDACY
    --------------------------------------------- -
    ¶2. (SBU) This cable reports Madelin's request for U.S.
    support for his candidacy to head the OECD, and conveys some
    of the points made by Madelin in support of his candidacy.
    This report has been cleared by USOECD. Embassy Paris is not
    advocating U.S. support of Madelin to head the OECD.
    However, Madelin's commitment to implementing OECD reform as
    proposed by the U.S. may recommend his candidacy. The fact
    that he is at once endorsed by France and pro-U.S. is also
    noteworthy. Madelin's credentials as an advocate of open
    societies and free markets are remarkable for a French
    political figure. His public support of President Bush and
    the U.S. effort to liberate Iraq -- including statements in
    the French parliament to that effect -- make him a friend of
    America whose requests for consideration from us merit our
    serious attention.

    REQUEST FOR U.S. SUPPORT
    ------------------------
    ¶3. (C) At a meeting in Madelin's law offices with
    Ambassador Stapleton on September 6, Madelin asked that the
    U.S. support his candidacy to become Secretary General of the
    OECD. Madelin said that, as "the candidate proposed by
    France, he enjoyed some support in the selection process, but
    that only a political decision" by the U.S. to support him
    could give his candidacy the weight it needed to prevail over
    others vying for the job.

    COMMITMENT TO U.S. GOALS FOR REFORM OF OECD
    -------------------------------------------
    ¶4. (C) In his meeting with Ambassador Stapleton, Madelin
    portrayed himself as someone known for his determination to
    deliver on his commitments. He stressed that his convictions
    with regard to democratic self-governance, rule of law and
    free markets were not "those of lip service." He said that
    he agreed with the U.S. proposed measures to improve, in
    particular, the governance of the OECD, and that he would it
    make it his priority -- should he become OECD Secretary
    General -- to re-engineer the OECD, linking it more closely
    to member governments and re-focusing it on executing the
    missions set for it by the "political level" of OECD member
    states. He also argued that his vision of the OECD's future
    priorities exemplified the application of American values to
    the mission of an international organization.

    MADELIN'S PRIORITY MISSIONS FOR THE OECD
    ----------------------------------------
    ¶5. (SBU) Madelin outlined what he said should be the OECD's
    "priority missions," and presented the Ambassador with a
    written brief about them. He said he believed these missions
    exemplified the application of "our common values" (American
    and French) of freedom, democracy and rule of law to the
    goals of an international organization such as the OECD.

    -- Enhancing globalization: work to promote free trade, open
    markets and extend the benefits that they have brought about
    in the context of an integrating, world economy;

    -- Encouraging free and open societies in the Muslim world in
    particular: validate and (when possible) enable the policy
    choices, both political and economic, that would bring about
    democratic and prosperous, open societies in the Muslim world;

    -- Supporting the development of Africa: coordinate a
    "Marshall plan for Africa, since so long as Africa is "left
    by the wayside," it is "impossible to defend globalization
    and its underpinning idea of freedom."

    -- Fostering structural reforms in European economies:
    Madelin, true to form, projects a role for the OECD in
    bringing around the "very radical free market reforms," he
    believes would bring renewed growth and prosperity to many of
    Europe's sluggish economies;

    -- Anticipating the global knowledge society: Madelin
    envisages a role for the OECD as a knowledge repository and
    exchange mechanism for policy experience that has worked --
    made globalization more advantageous for ordinary people.

    BACKGROUND ON MADELIN
    ---------------------
    ¶6. (SBU) Madelin is a member of the majority, center-right
    Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) party. He is a member of
    France's National Assembly, representing the 4th district of
    the Ille et Vilaine department in the Brittany region of
    western France. He was elected in 1978, and (excepting three
    periods when he held ministerial positions) has served
    continually, regularly winning re-election. Madelin was the
    founder of the now-defunct Liberal Democracy (DL) political
    party. He ran in the 2002 presidential elections, but
    garnered only 3.9 percent of the first round vote placing
    eleventh out of eighteen candidates. Running as an
    independent, he was reelected to the National Assembly in the
    2002 legislative elections. Soon thereafter he folded his
    cash-strapped DL party into the newly formed UMP.

    ¶7. (SBU) Madelin is best known for laissez-faire capitalist
    proposals that reflect Anglo-American economic thinking --
    quite outside the French mainstream for economic policy. An
    admirer of Margaret Thatcher, Friedrich von Hayek, and Milton
    Friedman, Madelin has long called for an end to unproductive
    and unwarranted state intervention in the economy. Madelin
    briefly served as Finance Minister during the government of
    Prime Minister Juppe from May to August of 1995. He was
    forced to resign after both Juppe and President Chirac
    objected to key features of Madelin's budget proposal, some
    of which called into question the government,s &vocation,8
    as the French call it, to redistribute wealth and income.
    Madelin also served as Minister for Industry,
    Telecommunications and Tourism (under Prime Minister Chirac)
    from 1986-88, and as Junior Minister for Small and
    Medium-sized Businesses from 1993-95 (under Prime Minister
    Balladur).

    ¶8. (SBU) Madelin organized and led a series of vigils in
    Paris following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
    In early 2003, during the controversy at the UN over the
    resolution to authorize military action against Iraq, Madelin
    was the first and best-known French politician to argue in
    press articles (including in the Wall Street Journal of
    January 31, 2003) that France needed to be at America's side.
    He wrote, "The American cause is indeed ours...it is time
    for France to choose: either to protect the Iraqi dictator
    against America, or to protect the world against Saddam and
    what he represents."

    COMMENT
    -------
    ¶9. (C) Madelin said that he had received President Chirac's
    own assurance of strong, official French support for his
    candidacy. He also said that he had been solicited to go
    after the job by reformist members of the OECD secretariat
    who -- Madelin said -- believed that only leadership strongly
    committed to democracy and free-markets could save the OECD
    from its increasing irrelevance. In addition, according to
    Madelin, these reformers believe a French head of a
    bureaucracy based in France would have a better chance of
    effecting difficult, internal reforms. We believe that the
    French political establishment is ready to support, in a
    sustained way, Madelin's candidacy, both as a national,
    favorite son candidate and to further sideline him and his
    ideas from the domestic political scene. End Comment.
    Please visit Paris' Classified Website at:
    http://www.state.sgov.gov/p/eur/paris/index.c fm
    STAPLETON

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