Political Career
He joined the French Socialist Party (PS) in 1974. He served as the deputy mayor of Lorient in 1977 and then, at the age of 30, he became a member of the French National Assembly for Morbihan. He served until 1993 and then again from 1997 until June 2007.
He served as Minister of the Sea under the government of Prime Minister Édith Cresson from 1991 to 1992.
In 2004 at the top of the list Bretagne à gauche, Bretagne pour tous (PS-PCF-PRG-Les Verts-UDB), he won 58.66% in the runoff and a total of 58 seats in the regional council. He thus became regional president of Brittany.In October 2010 he became President of the Conference of Peripheral Maritime Regions of Europe (CPMR).
He was nominated to serve as the Minister of Defence and Veterans Affairs under Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault on May 16, 2012. As Minister of Defence, he has been managing the withdrawal of French troops from Afghanistan and the Northern Mali conflict.
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