Alain Richard
Alain Richard | |
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![]() Richard in 2018 | |
Senator for Val-d'Oise | |
Assumed office 1 October 2011 | |
In office 2 October 1995 – 4 July 1997 | |
Minister of Defence | |
In office 3 June 1997 – 7 May 2002 | |
Prime Minister | Lionel Jospin |
Preceded by | Charles Millon |
Succeeded by | Michèle Alliot-Marie |
Member of the National Assembly for Val-d'Oise | |
In office 3 April 1978 – 1 April 1993 | |
Preceded by | Michel Poniatowski |
Succeeded by | Christian Gourmelen |
Constituency | 1st (1978–1986) At-large (1986–1988) 2nd (1988–1997) |
Mayor of Saint-Ouen-l'Aumône | |
In office 19 December 2002 – 19 October 2017 | |
Preceded by | Andrée Salgues |
Succeeded by | Laurent Linquette |
In office 20 March 1977 – 4 July 1997 | |
Preceded by | Armand Lecomte |
Succeeded by | Jean-Louis Linquette |
Personal details | |
Born | Paris, France | 29 August 1945
Nationality | French |
Political party | Unified Socialist Party (1962–1974) Socialist Party (1974–2017) La République En Marche! (since 2017) |
Education | Lycée Henri-IV |
Alma mater | Sciences Po École nationale d'administration |
Alain Richard (born 29 August 1945) is a French politician serving as Senator for Val-d'Oise since 2011. A member of the National Assembly for Val-d'Oise from 1978 to 1993, he was elected to the Senate in 1995 before his appointment as Minister of Defence in 1997 under Prime Minister Lionel Jospin, an office he retained until 2002. A former member of the Socialist Party (SP), he joined La République En Marche! (LREM) in 2017.
Career[]
An alumnus of Sciences Po and the École nationale d'administration (ÉNA), he was first elected as Mayor of Saint-Ouen-l'Aumône in 1977. In 1981, he was selected to be one of the first Young Leaders of the French-American Foundation.[1] A member of the Socialist Party (PS), he was elected to the National Assembly in the 1978 election.
Elected to the Senate in 1995 election, he was appointed Minister of Defence two years later by President Jacques Chirac. Seen as an ally of Prime Minister Lionel Jospin, he left the office when Jean-Pierre Raffarin became Prime Minister in 2002.[2] Richard went back to his initial position as Mayor of Saint-Ouen-l'Aumône, before regaining a seat in the Senate in the 2011 election. He was reelected in 2017 as a member of La République En Marche! (REM).
References[]
- ^ "Young Leaders". French-American Foundation. Retrieved 28 October 2015.
- ^ "Alain Richard : ministre de la Défense Cinquante-deux a". L'Humanité (in French). France. Archived from the original on 14 May 2010. Retrieved 14 June 2010.
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- 1945 births
- Living people
- Politicians from Paris
- Unified Socialist Party (France) politicians
- Socialist Party (France) politicians
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- French Ministers of Defence
- Deputies of the 6th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
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- Lycée Henri-IV alumni
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- Members of the Conseil d'État (France)
- Young Leaders of the French-American Foundation