Jean-Pierre Chevenement
| Jean-Pierre Chevènement | |
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| Minister of the Interior | |
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In office 4 June 1997 – 29 August 2000 |
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| Prime Minister | Lionel Jospin |
| Preceded by | Jean-Louis Debré |
| Succeeded by | Daniel Vaillant |
| Minister of Defence | |
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In office 12 May 1988 – 29 January 1991 |
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| Prime Minister | Michel Rocard |
| Preceded by | André Giraud |
| Succeeded by | Pierre Joxe |
| Ministry of National Education | |
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In office 17 July 1984 – 20 March 1986 |
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| Prime Minister | Laurent Fabius |
| Preceded by | Alain Savary |
| Succeeded by | René Monory |
| Minister of Research and of Industry | |
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In office 22 May 1981 – 23 March 1983 |
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| Prime Minister | Pierre Mauroy |
| Preceded by | Pierre Aigrain |
| Succeeded by | Laurent Fabius |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Jean-Pierre Chevènement 9 March 1939 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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