Alain Rousset
President of the Regional Council of Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Assumed office
20 March 1998
Preceded byJacques Valade
Member of the French National Assembly for Gironde
In office
17 June 2007 – 20 June 2017
Preceded byPierre Ducout
Personal details
Born (1951-02-16) 16 February 1951
Chazelles-sur-Lyon, France
Political partySocialist Party
Alma materSciences Po

Alain Rousset (born 16 February 1951) is a French politician. Rousset is the Socialist president of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of France, and a Deputy in the National Assembly of France, representing the 7th constituency of the Gironde.[1]

Political career

President of the Regional Council of Aquitaine, 1998–2015

Rousset was elected to the Regional Council of Aquitaine in the 1998 elections and then reelected in 2004.[2]

In 2010, Rousset proposed a "Plan for Digital Aquitaine".[3]

Member of the National Assembly, 2007–2017

Rousset entered the National Assembly in the 2007 elections, representing Gironde's 7th constituency.[4] In parliament, he served on the Committee on National Defence and the Armed Forces.

In the Socialist Party's 2011 primaries, Rousset endorsed François Hollande as the party's candidate for the 2012 presidential election.[5]

On 11 February 2014, Rousset was among the guests invited to the state dinner hosted by U.S. President Barack Obama in honor of President François Hollande at the White House.[6]

In the Socialist Party's presidential primaries, Rousset endorsed Manuel Valls as the party's candidate for the 2017 French presidential election.[7] He later supported Emmanuel Macron in the elections.[8]

References

  1. ↑ "Assemblée nationale – Les députés : M. Alain Rousset". Assemblee-nationale.fr. Archived from the original on 4 December 2010. Retrieved 2010-11-03.
  2. ↑ "Biographie de M. Alain Rousset". Dsf-fsn.org. Archived from the original on 2011-07-19. Retrieved 2010-11-03.
  3. ↑ Thierry Noisette (2010-02-15). "Régionales: en Aquitaine, Alain Rousset veut "une société numérique ouverte"". Zdnet.fr. Retrieved 2010-11-03.
  4. ↑ "Biographie de M. Alain Rousset". Dsf-fsn.org. Archived from the original on 2011-07-19. Retrieved 2010-11-03.
  5. ↑ Estelle Gross (6 July 2011), Primaire : qui soutient qui au PS ? L'Obs.
  6. ↑ Expected Attendees at Tonight’s State Dinner Office of the First Lady of the United States, press release of 11 February 2014.
  7. ↑ Primaire à gauche : Manuel Valls dépose plus de 500 parrainages Les Echos.
  8. ↑ Jeanne Travers (24 April 2017), Alain Rousset : "J'ai voté Macron au premier tour" de la présidentielle France Info.
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