French politician, a member of the Socialist Party, Mayor of Poitiers since 2008 and a Member of the National Assembly of France for the first constituency of the Vienne department since 1997. He sits in the Socialist, Radical, Citizen and Miscellaneous Left group in the National Assembly. In 2013, as Mayor of Poitiers, he decided on the sale of the Poitiers Theater and the destruction of this hall designed by the French architect Édouard Lardillier and built in 1954, in order to realize a commercial gallery and some flats, through a controversial real estate business. Link to Wikipedia biography Read less