Jacques Généreux (born 9 May 1956) is a French economist and politician. He is a reader of economics at the
Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris.
Politically active, he opposed
economic liberalism
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and he was close to
Jean-Luc Mélenchon
Jean-Luc Antoine Pierre Mélenchon (; born 19 August 1951) is a French politician who was a member of the National Assembly for the 4th constituency of Bouches-du-Rhône from 2017 to 2022. He led the ''La France Insoumise'' group in the Nation ...
within the
PS before having followed him to form the
Left Party when he left the PS in November 2008.
In 2009, he was selected to lead the
Left Front list in the
West
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Etymology
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constituency ahead of the
2009 European elections.
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References
1956 births
Living people
Politicians from Saint-Brieuc
Socialist Party (France) politicians
Left Party (France) politicians
La France Insoumise politicians
20th-century French economists
21st-century French economists
Sciences Po alumni
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