Bruno Le Roux
Bruno Le Roux in 2012
Minister of the Interior
In office
6 December 2016 – 21 March 2017
PresidentFrançois Hollande
Prime MinisterBernard Cazeneuve
Preceded byBernard Cazeneuve
Succeeded byMatthias Fekl
Leader of the Socialist Group in the National Assembly
In office
21 June 2012 – 6 December 2016
Preceded byJean-Marc Ayrault
Succeeded bySeybah Dagoma (Acting)
Olivier Faure
Member of the National Assembly
for Seine-Saint-Denis's 1st constituency
In office
12 June 1997 – 20 June 2017
Preceded byRaoul Béteille
Succeeded byÉric Coquerel
Mayor of Épinay-sur-Seine
In office
25 June 1995 – 18 March 2001
Preceded byGilbert Bonnemaison
Succeeded byHervé Chevreau
Personal details
Born (1965-05-02) 2 May 1965
Gennevilliers, France
Political partySocialist Party
Alma materParis Nanterre University

Bruno Le Roux (French pronunciation: [bʁyno lə ʁu]; born 2 May 1965) is a French politician of the Socialist Party who served as the Minister of the Interior of France from 6 December 2016 to 21 March 2017.

Political career

Le Roux was a member of the National Assembly of France where he represented the Seine-Saint-Denis department[1] and was the leader of the Socialist, Ecologist & Republican Group. He led the Socialist Party in the National Assembly from 2012 until 2016.

In the Socialist Party's 2011 primaries, Le Roux endorsed François Hollande as the party's candidate for the 2012 presidential election.[2]

On 6 December 2016, Le Roux was named Minister of the Interior in the government of Bernard Cazeneuve.[3]

In 2015, news media reported that Le Roux was included in a Russian blacklist of prominent people from the European Union who are not allowed to enter the country.[4][5]

Ahead of the Socialist Party's 2017 primaries, Le Roux endorsed Manuel Valls as the party's candidate for the presidential election later that year.[6]

Resignation

On 21 March 2017, Le Roux was forced to resign from the government when it was revealed that he employed his two daughters, aged just 15 and 16, as parliamentary assistants and paid them a total of €55,000 ($59,000), using public funds, while he served as a deputy in the National Assembly.[7] He was succeeded by Matthias Fekl, the Minister of State for Foreign Trade.[8]

References

  1. ↑ "LISTE DÉFINITIVE DES DÉPUTÉS ÉLUS À L'ISSUE DES DEUX TOURS" (in French). National Assembly of France. Retrieved 2010-07-04.
  2. ↑ Estelle Gross (6 July 2011), Primaire : qui soutient qui au PS ? L'Obs.
  3. ↑ Elizabeth Pineau (6 December 2016), Senior Socialist lawmaker named new French interior minister Reuters
  4. ↑ Laurence Norman (May 30, 2015), Russia Produces Blacklist of EU People Banned From Entering Country The Wall Street Journal.
  5. ↑ European Union anger at Russian travel blacklist BBC News, May 31, 2015.
  6. ↑ Grégoire Poussielgue and Pierre-Alain Furbury (15 December 2016), Primaire du PS : Valls engrange les soutiens Les Échos.
  7. ↑ Anne-Sylvaine Chassany (21 March 2017), French interior minister resigns over jobs scandal Financial Times
  8. ↑ Arthur Berdah (21 March 2017). "Contraint à la démission, Le Roux remplacé par Fekl au ministère de l'Intérieur". Le Figaro. Retrieved 21 March 2017.


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