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Jean-Pierre Chevènement

Jean-Pierre Chevènement
Jean-Pierre Chevènement - Royal & Zapatero's meeting in Toulouse for the 2007 French presidential election 0513 2007-04-19 cropped.jpg
Minister of the Interior
In office
4 June 1997 – 29 August 2000
Prime Minister Lionel Jospin
Preceded by Jean-Louis Debré
Succeeded by Daniel Vaillant
Minister of Defence
In office
12 May 1988 – 29 January 1991
Prime Minister Michel Rocard
Preceded by André Giraud
Succeeded by Pierre Joxe
Ministry of National Education
In office
17 July 1984 – 20 March 1986
Prime Minister Laurent Fabius
Preceded by Alain Savary
Succeeded by René Monory
Minister of Research and of Industry
In office
22 May 1981 – 23 March 1983
Prime Minister Pierre Mauroy
Preceded by Pierre Aigrain
Succeeded by Laurent Fabius
Personal details
Born Jean-Pierre Chevènement
(1939-03-09) 9 March 1939 (age 78)
Belfort, Territoire de Belfort
Political party SFIO (1964-1969)
Socialist Party (1969-1993)
Citizens' Movement (1993-2002) Republican Pole (2002-2003)
Citizen and Republican Movement (2003-2015)
Spouse(s) Nisa Chevènement
Children Raphaël and Jean-Christophe
Alma mater Sciences Po
École nationale d'administration
Website [1]

Jean-Pierre Chevènement (French: [ʒɑ̃ pjɛʁ ʃəvɛnmɑ̃]; born 9 March 1939) is a French politician who served as a minister in the 1980s and 1990s and who was a candidate in the 2002 French presidential election. After serving as mayor of Belfort, he was elected to the Senate for the Territoire de Belfort in 2008. As a cofounder of the PS and founder of the Republican and Citizen Movement (MRC), he is a significant figure of the French left.

The Chevènement family is of Swiss origin, with their original name, Schwennemann, having been gallicized to Chevènement. He was born in Belfort near the Swiss border, speaks German, and studied in Vienna.

Chevènement's idiosyncratic left-wing nationalism has led to comparison with the late British politician Peter Shore. He describes his Eurosceptic and Gaullist position as "republican". He was Mayor of Belfort from 1983 to 2008 and was a Deputy in the National Assembly from 1973 to 2002.

He joined the French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO) and founded the Center for Socialist Studies, Research and Education (Centre d'études, de recherche et d'éducation socialistes or CERES). The organization constituted the left wing of the party, and promoted an alliance with the Communist Party.

In 1969 the SFIO was superseded by the Socialist Party (Parti socialiste or PS). Two years later, CERES supported the takeover of the party by François Mitterrand. It played a major role in drawing up the Socialist plan for victory in the 1981 elections.


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