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Alain Rousset

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Alain Rousset
President of the Regional Council of Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Assumed office
20 March 1998
Preceded byJacques Valade
Member of the French National Assembly for Gironde
In office
17 June 2007  20 June 2017
Preceded byPierre Ducout
Personal details
Born (1951-02-16) 16 February 1951 (age 75)
PartySocialist Party
Alma materSciences Po

Alain Rousset (French pronunciation: [alɛ̃ ʁusɛ]; born 16 February 1951) is a French politician. Rousset is the Socialist president of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of France, and a Deputy in the National Assembly of France, representing the 7th constituency of the Gironde.[1]

Political career

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President of the Regional Council of Aquitaine, 1998–2015

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Rousset was elected to the Regional Council of Aquitaine in the 1998 elections and then reelected in 2004.[2]

In 2010, Rousset proposed a "Plan for Digital Aquitaine".[3]

Member of the National Assembly, 2007–2017

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Rousset entered the National Assembly in the 2007 elections, representing Gironde's 7th constituency.[4] In parliament, he served on the Committee on National Defence and the Armed Forces.

In the Socialist Party's 2011 primaries, Rousset endorsed François Hollande as the party's candidate for the 2012 presidential election.[5]

On 11 February 2014, Rousset was among the guests invited to the state dinner hosted by U.S. President Barack Obama in honor of President François Hollande at the White House.[6]

In the Socialist Party's presidential primaries, Rousset endorsed Manuel Valls as the party's candidate for the 2017 French presidential election.[7] He later supported Emmanuel Macron in the elections.[8]

References

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  1. "Assemblée nationale – Les députés : M. Alain Rousset". Assemblee-nationale.fr. Archived from the original on 4 December 2010. Retrieved 2010-11-03.
  2. "Biographie de M. Alain Rousset". Dsf-fsn.org. Archived from the original on 2011-07-19. Retrieved 2010-11-03.
  3. Thierry Noisette (2010-02-15). "Régionales: en Aquitaine, Alain Rousset veut "une société numérique ouverte"". Zdnet.fr. Retrieved 2010-11-03.
  4. "Biographie de M. Alain Rousset". Dsf-fsn.org. Archived from the original on 2011-07-19. Retrieved 2010-11-03.
  5. Estelle Gross (6 July 2011), Primaire : qui soutient qui au PS ? L'Obs.
  6. Expected Attendees at Tonight’s State Dinner Office of the First Lady of the United States, press release of 11 February 2014.
  7. Primaire à gauche : Manuel Valls dépose plus de 500 parrainages Les Echos.
  8. Jeanne Travers (24 April 2017), Alain Rousset : "J'ai voté Macron au premier tour" de la présidentielle France Info.
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