Is essential to the "historic channel Valenciennois", Dominique Liger took advantage of the summer recess to make its boxes and leave his comfortable Office with view on the garden at the Ministry of employment and solidarity. Reason: his appointment, for fifty-three years, as Director General of the RSI. Behind this still little-known acronym of the great public, meaning "social regime of the independent", lies the most important institutional reform of social security since 1945: the merger of the three plans AMPI, AVA and Organic and management by a single organization maternity insurance and the insurance-vieillesse of artisans, merchants and professionals more than 4 million people.
Humour and moustache british

A turn in the career of this "Borloo's boy" in the first hour the two men is are known on the banks of the Faculty of law of Nanterre often changed its home since his release from the ENA in 1981, the late Ministry of free time to the credit Local de France through the Direction of the budget and the Datar. It was in 1992 that Jean-Louis Borloo, elected since little Mayor of Valenciennes, calls it for the first time at his side: the former of the Datar then puts its contacts to benefit to help the young and bubbling aedile to restore morale une city stricken by the crisis of the steel. But, not wishing to leave the capital for family reasons, he puts an end to the experience within a year. "This parenthesis made me a good crazy.". "I was confronted with the real life", says this "false stolid" humour and moustache all british.
After a hook by the Viet Nam where he and his wife went seeking their little boy, the Caisse des Dépôts it opens the doors of its monitoring Committee, chaired at the time the RPR MP Jean-Pierre Delalande. In 1996, it is an another former MP RPR, Jean-Paul Delevoye, which he joined to assist the Association of mayors of France (MFA). It will be six years. Enough to be able to boast today to be "the State official who knows the number of local elected officials."
When one of these 36,000 mayors found in May 2002, propelled to the Government, Dominique Liger route enjoys a new inflection. "Only technocrat than Jean-Louis Borloo supports", the General Director of the MFA is indeed proposing the position of "dircab" the new Minister delegated to the city. "We quickly realized that this was a Department of talk." The first combat of Jean-Louis Borloo was retrieve housing his powers. We obtained it struggles under "raffarin ii". "It is only after we have been able to seriously tackle the problem", he says.
The suite is known: first act Borloo, élyséen accolade in the form of presidential travel in Valenciennes. In April 2004, "Raffarin III" is the weight pen of former heavy weight. Dominique Liger then gives his chair of Chief of staff to former of Bercy, Augustin de Romanet, to take the advise special. The bulk being for this enarque knowing speak "the Borloo" always have the ear of the Minister...