Jean Auroux is a French

politician A politician is a person active in party politics, or a person holding or seeking an elected office in government. Politicians propose, support, reject and create laws that govern the land and by an extension of its people. Broadly speaking, a ...

. He served as Minister of Labour from 1981 to 1983, under former President

François Mitterrand François Marie Adrien Maurice Mitterrand (26 October 19168 January 1996) was President of France, serving under that position from 1981 to 1995, the longest time in office in the history of France. As First Secretary of the Socialist Party, he ...

.Joseph P. Morray, ''Grand disillusion: François Mitterrand and the French left'', Greenwood Publishing Group, 1997, p.9

/ref> He started his career as a

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, and became the Mayor of

Roanne Roanne (; frp, Rouana; oc, Roana) is a commune in the Loire department, central France. It is located northwest of Lyon on the river Loire. It has an important Museum, the ''Musée des Beaux-arts et d'Archéologie Joseph-Déchelette'' (Fren ...

. In 2002, he was sued for

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in his capacity as Mayor, but he was let go in 2011.'L'ancien ministre du Travail Jean Auroux (PS) coupable de prise illégale d'intérêt', in ''

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'', 27/05/201

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Government ministers of France Mayors of places in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Living people People from Roanne French schoolteachers Transport ministers of France Year of birth missing (living people) Socialist Party (France) politicians {{France-politician-Socialist-stub