Alain Rousset

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Alain Rousset
President of the Regional Council of Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Incumbent
Assumed office 20 March 1998
Preceded by	Jacques Valade
Member of the French National Assembly for Gironde
In office 17 June 2007 – 20 June 2017
Preceded by	Pierre Ducout
Personal details
Born	(1951-02-16) 16 February 1951 (age 73) Chazelles-sur-Lyon, France
Political party	Socialist Party
Alma mater	Sciences Po

Alain Rousset (French pronunciation: [alɛ̃ ʁusɛ]; born 16 February 1951) is a French politician. Rousset is the Socialist president of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of France, and a Deputy in the National Assembly of France, representing the 7th constituency of the Gironde.^[1]

Rousset was elected to the Regional Council of Aquitaine in the 1998 elections and then reelected in 2004.^[2]

In 2010, Rousset proposed a "Plan for Digital Aquitaine".^[3]

Rousset entered the National Assembly in the 2007 elections, representing Gironde's 7th constituency.^[4] In parliament, he served on the Committee on National Defence and the Armed Forces.

In the Socialist Party's 2011 primaries, Rousset endorsed François Hollande as the party's candidate for the 2012 presidential election.^[5]

On 11 February 2014, Rousset was among the guests invited to the state dinner hosted by U.S. President Barack Obama in honor of President François Hollande at the White House.^[6]

In the Socialist Party's presidential primaries, Rousset endorsed Manuel Valls as the party's candidate for the 2017 French presidential election.^[7] He later supported Emmanuel Macron in the elections.^[8]

Sources

• Rousset's website
• Rousset's dailymotion
• "Alain Rousset", Le Monde

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