Stéphane Le Foll

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Stéphane Le Foll (2014)

Stéphane Le Foll [ ste 'fan lə' fɔl ] (born February 9, 1960 in Le Mans ) is a French politician of the socialist party PS and was French Minister of Agriculture from May 16, 2012 to May 10, 2017. Since 2014 he has also been a government spokesman. He was a member of the European Parliament .

Le Foll studied economics and graduated with a Diplôme d'études approfondies (1988) and a Diplôme professionnel spécialisé from the Conservatoire national des arts et métiers (1993). From 1987 to 1991 he taught economics in Rouillon and La Ferté-Bernard and gave courses at the University of Nantes .

From 1983 to 1995, Le Foll was a member of Longnes City Council ; From 2002 to 2004 he was a member of the Le Mans City Council and was Vice President of the Le Mans Metropolitan Region . From 1997 to 2008 he headed the cabinet of François Hollande , head of the Parti Socialiste. In November 2008 he was elected chairman of the PS in the Sarthe department .

In the 2004 European elections , Le Foll was elected to the European Parliament , to which he was a member until May 15, 2012. Here he was a member of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development and, since the European elections in 2009 , has been deputy chairman of the social democratic group S&D .

Le Foll ran for the parliamentary elections in France in 2007 , but was defeated in the first ballot against his opponent, the conservative UMP , who later became Prime Minister François Fillon . In the French parliamentary elections in 2012 , Le Foll won a mandate in the Sarthe department , which, however, was suspended because of his work in the governments of the presidency of François Hollande . At first he was a member of the Ayrault I cabinet as Minister for Agriculture and Food , and in the following governments of Ayrault II , Valls I , Valls II and Cazeneuve he retained his portfolio. From the Valls I government he also held the function of government spokesman.

Web links

Commons : Stéphane Le Foll  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Royal, Montebourg, Hamon ... l'équation risquée de Manuel Valls. In: LeMonde.fr. April 2, 2014, accessed November 18, 2015 (French).
personal data
SURNAME Le Foll, Stéphane
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French politician (PS), MEP
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Le Mans