Paul Giacobbi

This article deals with the politician Giacobbi (* 1957); for the politician and former Minister of Education (1896–1951) see Paul Joseph Marie Giacobbi .

Paul Giacobbi (born June 4, 1957 in Courbevoie ) is a French politician of the Parti radical de gauche . He was a member of the National Assembly from 2002 to 2017 and head of government of Corsica from 2010 to 2015 .

Giacobbi comes from a Corsican family in which his father François Giacobbi and his grandfather Paul Joseph Marie Giacobbi were MPs. He himself moved into the local council of Venaco and was elected mayor in 1983 at the age of 25. In 1986 he moved to the regional council . After the following regional elections in 1992 he was also a member of the Executive Council, which represents the Corsican government. In 1997 he also succeeded in entering the General Council ( conseil général ) of the Haute-Corse department . Giacobbi ran in the parliamentary elections in 2002 in the second constituency of the Haute-Corse department and was able to move into the National Assembly. Giacobbi joined the parliamentary group of the PS and its allies. In 2007 he was re-elected and at the beginning of the legislative term was appointed Secretary of the National Assembly. The following year he was elected President of the General Council of Haute-Corse. In the regional elections in 2010 he was the top candidate of a left-wing alliance and, thanks to the election success, was elected President of the Executive Council ( conseil exécutif ) and thus head of government in Corsica. In 2012 he was re-elected as a Member of Parliament. In the regional elections in 2015 , his leftist alliance lost a majority in the Assemblée de Corse and in the parliamentary elections in 2017 he did not stand for his constituency, which was won that year by the Corsican nationalist Jean-Félix Acquaviva .

Individual evidence

1. ^ M. Paul Giacobbi Assemblée Nationale , assemblee-nationale.fr
2. ↑ Le député , paul-giacobbi.org