Jean Glavany

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Jean Glavany (born May 14, 1949 in Sceaux , Département Seine , today Département Hauts-de-Seine ) is a French lawyer and politician of the Parti socialiste . He represents the Hautes-Pyrénées department in the National Assembly .

Glavany joined the Parti socialiste in 1973 , but his party career began in 1979, when the then party chairman and later president François Mitterrand supported him in a local election in the Paris suburb of Issy-les-Moulineaux . He became one of Mitterrand's closest associates and after he was elected President during his first term (1981–1988) his office manager ( chef de cabinet ). In 1989 he also began a local party career when he was elected mayor of the municipality of Maubourguet in the Hautes-Pyrénées department, which he remained until 2001. In March 2008 he applied for the office of mayor of Tarbes , but fails because of the conservative incumbent Gérard Tremège . At national level, he was State Secretary for Technical Training ( enseignement technique ) in the cabinet of Prime Minister Pierre Bérégovoy from 1992 to 1993 , until the government was voted out of office in the 1993 elections. From 1993 to 1998 he represented the 3rd constituency of the Hautes-Pyrénées department in the National Assembly. After the electoral victory of the left in 1997 , he became Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries ( Ministre de l'Agriculture et de la Pêche ) in the cabinet of Lionel Jospin . After the renewed change of government in 2002 he was again a member of the 3rd constituency of Hautes-Pyrénées. Since 2012 he has now represented the 1st constituency of Hautes-Pyrénées. That year he also ran for the office of President of the French National Assembly, but eventually renounced in favor of Claude Bartolone .