Joël-Guy Batteux (16 December 1943 – 10 January 2021) was a French politician.

Biography

Batteux member of the

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, the Citizens' Movement, and the Association pour une gauche républicaine before returning to the Socialist Party. He was elected

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of Saint-Nazaire in 1983 and served until 2014. During the 1997 French legislative election, Batteux ran under the Citizens' Movement ticket for the

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seat of Loire-Atlantique's 8th constituency. He received 26% of the vote in the first round, and ceded the seat to the Socialist Party's

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, who replaced the outgoing Deputy . He left the Citizens' Movement in 2002. In 2008, Batteux was made a member of the

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for his services to relations between

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and the

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as Mayor of Saint-Nazaire. On 23 November of that year, he temporarily took the job of first secretary of the Socialist Party, although he only held the position for a few days. In 2014, he decided not to stand in the mayoral election in Saint-Nazaire, allowing David Samzun to succeed him. In April 2014, he was appointed to the

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. Joël Batteux died on 10 January 2021 at the age of 77 following complications from surgery.

References

1943 births 2021 deaths People from Vitré, Ille-et-Vilaine Politicians from Brittany 20th-century French politicians 21st-century French politicians Mayors of places in Brittany Socialist Party (France) politicians Members of the Order of the British Empire {{LoireAtlantique-politician-stub