Daniel Delaveau (born 22 December 1952 in

Châlette-sur-Loing Châlette-sur-Loing () is a commune in the Loiret department in north-central France. Geography The commune is crossed by two rivers, the Loing and the Solin, and three canals, the Canal du Loing, the Canal de Briare and the Canal d'Orléans. ...

Loiret Loiret (; ) is a department in the Centre-Val de Loire region of north-central France. It takes its name from the river Loiret, which is contained wholly within the department. In 2019, Loiret had a population of 680,434.

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Rennes Rennes (; br, Roazhon ; Gallo: ''Resnn''; ) is a city in the east of Brittany in northwestern France at the confluence of the Ille and the Vilaine. Rennes is the prefecture of the region of Brittany, as well as the Ille-et-Vilaine department ...

. He is a member of the

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. He was born in a working-class family, and was active in Catholic youth organizations before joining the Unified Socialist Party in the 1970s and the PS in 1974. In 1989, he was elected mayor of the Rennes suburb of

Saint-Jacques-de-la-Lande Saint-Jacques-de-la-Lande (; ; Gallo: ''Saent-Jaq'') is a commune of Rennes Métropole in the Ille-et-Vilaine department of Brittany in northwestern France. Population People from Saint-Jacques-de-la-Lande are called ''jacquolandins'' in French ...

and in 1994 he joined the department

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as councillor for Rennes-Sud-Ouest. In September 2007, he was designated by his party to lead the left-wing list (

, PCF, PRG, UDB) in the March 2008

municipal election. In the 2008 local elections, he was elected Mayor of Rennes, succeeding PS incumbent

Edmond Hervé Edmond Hervé (born 3 December 1942) is a French politician, a member of the Socialist Party and French senator from 2008 to 2014. He was the mayor of Rennes from 1977 to 2008, succeeding Henri Fréville. Biography Born in La Bouillie, Côte ...

, with 60.40% of the votes in the runoff. In December 2012, he announced he would not run for the next municipal election, in March 2014.Daniel Delaveau, le maire de Rennes, ne se représentera pas en 2014
in ''

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'' His former deputy mayor,

Nathalie Appéré Nathalie Appéré (born 8 July 1975) is a French politician who has served as the president of Rennes Métropole since 2020 and the mayor of Rennes since 2014. She is a member of the Socialist Party (France), Socialist Party (PS). Appéré was bo ...

(Socialist Party), won that election on March 30, 2014.

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Daniel Delaveau’s blog
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