Jacques Gillot

Jacques Gillot, b. 4 March 1948 in Gosier, on the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe, was the President of the General Council of Guadeloupe.^[1] He has been chairing the General Council March 2001 to April 2015. Gillot was elected to the French senate in 2004.^[2]

He is also the founding member of the Guadeloupe Unie Socialisme and Réalités ("United Guadeloupe Socialism and Realities") political party. Gillot is a physician, is married and has three children.

Biography

A doctor by profession, Jacques Gillot was elected mayor of Le Gosier in 1989, a municipality where he subsequently served as deputy mayor. In 1993, he became a general councilor for the canton of Gosier-1 and assumed the presidency of the general council in 2001.

He was elected senator on September 26, 2004, and re-elected on September 25, 2011. He is a member of the Socialist group in the Senate and sits on the Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Armed Forces Committee.^[3]

He is a founding member of Guadeloupe Unie, Socialisme et Réalités (GUSR), a local left-wing party affiliated with the Socialist Party (France), but which in 2017 became close to Renaissance (French political party) en Marche.

He is married and has three children.^[4]

References

↑ "Guadeloupe: le LKP a signé le protocole de suspension du conflit". Challenges (in French). Associated Press. 5 March 2009. Retrieved 7 February 2011.^{[permanent dead link]}
↑ Gillot's Senate website
↑ "Fiche de Jacques Gillot". senat.fr.
↑ "Jacques Gillot". guadeloupe.net.

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[1] "Guadeloupe: le LKP a signé le protocole de suspension du conflit". Challenges (in French). Associated Press. 5 March 2009. Retrieved 7 February 2011.^{[permanent dead link]}

[2] Gillot's Senate website

[3] "Fiche de Jacques Gillot". senat.fr.

[4] "Jacques Gillot". guadeloupe.net.

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