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Édouard Balladur (born 2 May 1929) is a French right-wing politician. He served as Prime Minister...

Édouard Balladur (born 2 May 1929) is a French right-wing politician. He served as Prime Minister during the second "cohabitation", under François Mitterrand, from 29 March 1993 to 10 May 1995. As a candidate for the presidency of France in 1995, he came in third and was defeated in the first round. Balladur was born in İzmir, Turkey to an Armenian family with long-standing ties to France. His family emigrated to Marseille in 1935 with their five children. In 1957, he married Marie-Josèphe Delacour, with whom he had four sons. He started his career in 1964 as advisor of Prime Minister Georges Pompidou. After Pompidou's election as President of France in 1969, Balladur was appointed under-secretary general of the presidency then secretary general from 1973 to Georges Pompidou's death in 1974. He returned to politics in the 1980s with Jacques Chirac. A member of the Neo-Gaullist party Rally for the Republic (RPR), he was the theoretician of the "cohabitation". Indeed, he explained that if the right won the legislative election, it could govern without Socialist President François Mitterrand's resignation. This situation took place from 1986 to 1988. As Minister of Economy and