Jean-Yves Le Drian
| Jean-Yves Le Drian | |
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| President of the Regional Council of Brittany | |
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Assumed office 18 December 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Pierrick Massiot |
| Minister of Defence | |
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Assumed office 16 May 2012 |
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| Prime Minister |
Jean-Marc Ayrault Manuel Valls Bernard Cazeneuve |
| Preceded by | Gérard Longuet |
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| Born |
30 June 1947 Lorient, France |
| Political party | Socialist Party |
| Alma mater | University of Rennes 2 |
Jean-Yves Le Drian (French pronunciation: [ʒã.iv lə.dʁi.jã]); born 30 June 1947) is a French politician who is a member of the French Socialist Party. He has served as the Minister of Defence and Veterans Affairs under President François Hollande since 2012.
Jean-Yves Le Drian was born on 30 June 1947 in Lorient, Brittany, to working-class parents, Jean and Louisette, who were active members of the Young Christian Workers (Jeunesse ouvrière chrétienne, or JOC, in French). He completed his studies at the University of Rennes, where he was an activist for the Union Nationale des Étudiants de France (UNEF).
First of all interested by Breton Democratic Union (UDB) in the 1970s, he joined the French Socialist Party (PS) in May 1974. He served as the deputy mayor of Lorient in 1977 and then, at the age of 30, he became a member of the French National Assembly for Morbihan. He served until 1993 and then again from 1997 until June 2007.
He served as Minister of the Sea under the government of Prime Minister Édith Cresson from 1991 to 1992.
In 2004 at the top of the list Bretagne à gauche, Bretagne pour tous (PS-PCF-PRG-Les Verts-UDB), he won 58.66% in the runoff and a total of 58 seats in the regional council. He thus became regional president of Brittany. In October 2010 he became President of the Conference of Peripheral Maritime Regions of Europe (CPMR).
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