Bruno Le Roux | |
Office: | Minister of the Interior |
Term Start: | 6 December 2016 |
Term End: | 21 March 2017 |
President: | François Hollande |
Primeminister: | Bernard Cazeneuve |
Predecessor: | Bernard Cazeneuve |
Successor: | Matthias Fekl |
Office1: | Leader of the Socialist Group in the National Assembly |
Term Start1: | 21 June 2012 |
Term End1: | 6 December 2016 |
Predecessor1: | Jean-Marc Ayrault |
Successor1: | Seybah Dagoma Olivier Faure |
Office2: | Member of the National Assembly for Seine-Saint-Denis's 1st constituency |
Term Start2: | 12 June 1997 |
Term End2: | 20 June 2017 |
Predecessor2: | Raoul Béteille |
Successor2: | Éric Coquerel |
Office3: | Mayor of Épinay-sur-Seine |
Term Start3: | 25 June 1995 |
Term End3: | 18 March 2001 |
Predecessor3: | Gilbert Bonnemaison |
Successor3: | Hervé Chevreau |
Birth Date: | 2 May 1965 |
Birth Place: | Gennevilliers, France |
Nationality: | French |
Party: | Socialist Party |
Alma Mater: | Paris Nanterre University |
Bruno Le Roux (in French pronounced as /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.
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]
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]
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