2002–2007. Minister of the Interior, Overseas Territories and Territorial Communities : 2007–2009. Keeper of the Seals, Minister of State, Minister of Justice and Freedoms: 2009–2010. Minister of State, Minister of Foreign and European Affairs: 2010–2011 (resignation). Electoral mandates European parliament Member of the European Parliament : 1989-1992 (resignation); since 2014. Elected in 1989, 2014. National Assembly Deputy to the National Assembly for Pyrénées-Atlantiques (6th constituency): elected in March 1986 (became minister in March 1986) / 1988–1993 / elected in March 1993 (became minister in 1993) / 1995–2002 (became minister in 2002) / reelected in 2007 (remained a minister) / 2011-2012 (defeated). Elected in 1986, reelected in 1988, 1993, 1995, 1997, 2002, 2007. General Council Vice President of the General Council of Pyrénées-Atlantiques: 1994–2001. General Councillor of Pyrénées-Atlantiques: 1994–2001. Municipal Council Mayor of Saint-Jean-de-Luz: 1995-2002 (resignation). Reelected in 2001. Deputy Mayor of Saint-Jean-de-Luz : Since 2002. Reelected in 2008. Municipal Councillor of Saint-Jean-de-Luz: since 1995, reelected in 2001, 2008. Municipal Councillor of Biarritz: 1989–1991. Municipal Councillor of Ciboure: 1983–1988. Party political offices President of the Rally for the Republic: 1999–2002 (party dissolved). Elected in 1999. Vice President of the Union for a Popular Movement: 2009–2012. Vice President of The Republicans National Council: since 2015. Controversy In 1972, a guard prevented Alliot-Marie from entering the National Assembly chamber because she was wearing pants; women were not allowed to wear pants to work in white-collar government jobs until the late 1960s and not in the Assembly until some years later. In early 2009, Alliot-Marie received an anonymous death threat accompanied by a 9mm-calibre bullet. In 2016, French investigating judge Sabine Kheris requested that a case involving Dominique de Villepin, Michel Barnier and Michèle Alliot-Marie be referred to the Court of Justice of the Republic. These former ministers were suspected of having allowed the exfiltration of the mercenaries responsible for the attack on the Bouaké camp in 2004, killing nine French soldiers. The operation was allegedly intended to justify a response operation against the Laurent Gbagbo government in the context of the 2004 crisis in Ivory Coast. Personal life Michèle Marie married anthropologist in 1971, taking the name Michèle Alliot-Marie. They divorced in 1984. In the French media, she is nicknamed "MAM". Since 1988, her life partner has been Patrick Ollier, who briefly served as President of the National Assembly in 2007 and subsequently chaired the Assembly's Economy Committee. In November 2010, he was