François Patriat

François Patriat
François Patriat
President of the La République En Marche group in the Senate
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 27 June 2017
Preceded by	Position established
Senator for Côte-d'Or
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 1 October 2008
President of the Regional Council; of Burgundy
	In office; 2 April 2004 – 31 December 2015
Preceded by	Jean-Pierre Soisson
Succeeded by	Marie-Guite Dufay (Bourgogne-Franche-Comté)
Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries
	In office; 25 February 2002 – 6 May 2002
Prime Minister	Lionel Jospin
Preceded by	Jean Glavany
Succeeded by	Hervé Gaymard
Secretary of State for Small and medium-sized businesses, Trade and Crafts
	In office; 18 October 2000 – 25 February 2002
Prime Minister	Lionel Jospin
Preceded by	Marylise Lebranchu
Succeeded by	Christian Pierret
Mayor of Chailly-sur-Armançon
	In office; 17 March 1989 – 11 March 2001
Succeeded by	André Loizon
Member of the National Assembly; for Côte-d'Or
	In office; 12 June 1997 – 18 November 2000
Preceded by	Alain Suguenot
Succeeded by	Jean-Claude Robert
Constituency	5th
	In office; 2 July 1981 – 1 April 1993
Preceded by	Jean-Philippe Lecat
Succeeded by	Alain Suguenot
Constituency	3rd (1981–1986); At-large (1986–1988); 5th (1988–1993)
Personal details
Born	21 March 1943; Semur-en-Auxois, France
Nationality	French
Political party	La République En Marche! (since 2017)
Other political; affiliations	Socialist Party (1974–2017)

François Patriat (born 21 March 1943) is a French politician serving as President of the La République En Marche group in the Senate since 2017. He has represented the Côte-d'Or department in the Senate since 2008. Patriat also served as Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries in 2002 and President of the Regional Council of Burgundy from 2004 until 2015. He was a member of the Socialist Party before joining La République En Marche! in 2017.

Biography

Born in Semur-en-Auxois, Côte-d'Or, Patriat graduated from École nationale vétérinaire d'Alfort (ENVA) in 1968. He joined the Socialist Party (PS) in 1974 and was elected to the General Council of Côte-d'Or for the canton of Pouilly-en-Auxois in 1976, a position he retained until 2008. In 1981, he was elected to the National Assembly. In 1989, Patriat became Mayor of Chailly-sur-Armançon, an office he held until 2001.

In 2000, he was appointed Secretary of State in charge of small and medium-sized businesses, trade and crafts at the Ministry of the Economy, Finance and Industry under Prime Minister Lionel Jospin. In 2002, he was appointed Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries. He left office when Jean-Pierre Raffarin became Prime Minister.

In the 2004 regional elections, Patriat led a list that defeated the list conducted by incumbent Regional Council President Jean-Pierre Soisson. Reelected in 2010, he left the position in 2015, before the region was merged with Franche-Comté.

Patriat was elected to the Senate in 2008. Reelected in 2014, he joined La République En Marche! (REM) in 2017. The same year, he became President of the La République En Marche group in the Senate, after supporting Emmanuel Macron's successful candidacy for the presidency of the French Republic in the 2017 presidential election.[1][2]

(in French) "François Patriat prend ses distances avec le PS et se rapproche d'Emmanuel Macron". BFMTV.com. 7 March 2017.
(in French) Laurent de Boissieu. "En Marche (EM)". france-politique.fr. Retrieved 27 August 2018.

Political offices
Preceded by Jean Glavany	Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries 2002	Succeeded by Hervé Gaymard

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