About Alain Lambert
Alain Lambert is a Senator in the Upper House of Parliament and President of Orne County Council. He was Minister for the Budget and Budgetary Reform from 2002 to 2004.
Born in Alençon in 1946, he entered politics in 1983. Of Christian Democrat convictions, he became a local councillor for the opposition, then a regional and a general councillor.
In 1989, he was elected Mayor of Alençon; and subsequently re-elected in 1995 and 2001. He resigned his post in 2002 because of his ministerial functions.
Alain Lambert was elected local councillor in Saint-Céneri-le-Gérei on the 10th September 2006. He has been a general councillor for the district of Alencon 3 since March 2004 and is now general councillor for Putanges-Pont-Ecrépin. He was elected President of Orne Council on the 14th December 2007 and subsequently re-elected in March 2008.
As a Senator for Orne from 1992 to 2002 and a member of the Centrist Union Group, he has worked in the Finance Commission where he became General Budget Reporter in 1995 and then President in 1998. Re-elected in 2001, he resigned in June 2002 to make way for his deputy, Brigitte Luypaert. He was then re-elected as Senator of Orne in September 2004.
Alain Lambert was a Notary from 1976 to June 2002, and was President of the Superior Council of Notaries (CSN) from 1996 to 1998.
Current functions:
- President of Orne County Council
- Senate: Vice-president of the National Finance, Budget Control and Economic Accounts Commission
- President of the CCEN (Consultative Commission on Legislation and Standards)
- Member of the Commission monitoring the Revenue and Consignments Office
- Member of the board of the UMP Party and President of the UMP Orne Federation
At the head of the County Council…
A general councillor for the urban district of Alençon 3 from 1985 to 2002 and then again from 2004, Alain Lambert was First Vice-president of Orne County Council. He took over as President from Gerard Burel on the 14th December 2007. This trial period became definitive on the 20th March 2008, when he was elected to the head of the county executive.
The President holds executive power; it is he who decides the main direction of the council’s actions, runs the General Assembly, overlooks income and expenditure and supervises the council services with their 1,300 employees. He represents the council at local and state level.
Promoting the appeal of the county…
Expanding broadband, improving learning, pursuing the modernisation of the transport infrastructure, preserving cultural heritage and natural resources, widening access to culture to people of all ages and ensuring a future for school-leavers.
Written into the constitution are the main ambitions for the county up to 2020. Entitled “The Project for Society” it was unanimously adopted by the County Assembly in September 2007. A partnership convention was then ratified in February 2008 with the Basse-Normandy Region, giving the stamp of approval to our ideas, our hopes and our desires.
The general assembly
As President, Alain Lambert presides over the assembly. The council is overseen by a general assembly of 40 councillors, representing the 40 cantons of the département.
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