Gérard Dériot (born 1 November 1944) is a member of the

Senate of France The Senate (french: Sénat, ) is the upper house of the French Parliament, with the lower house being the National Assembly, the two houses constituting the legislature of France. The French Senate is made up of 348 senators (''sénateurs'' a ...

. He represents the

Allier Allier ( , , ; oc, Alèir) is a department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region that borders Cher to the west, Nièvre to the north, Saône-et-Loire and Loire to the east, Puy-de-Dôme to the south, and Creuse to the south-west. Named afte ...

department and is a member of the

Union for a Popular Movement The Union for a Popular Movement (french: link=no, Union pour un mouvement populaire, ; UMP, ) was a centre-right political party in France that was one of the two major contemporary political parties in France along with the centre-left Social ...

Party.

Functions

He was president of the

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from 1992 to 1998 and from 2001 to 2008, and of the Departmental Council of Allier from 2 April 2015 to 25 September 2017. * President of the communes community (''communauté de communes'') of Pays de TronçaisPage on the Senate website. * Former mayor of Cérilly * General councillor of former canton of Cérilly (1985–2015) * Departmental councillor of

canton of Bourbon-l'Archambault The canton of Bourbon-l'Archambault is an administrative division in central France. At the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015, the canton was expanded from 8 to 29 communes (2 of which merged into the new commune Me ...

(duo with Corinne Trebosc-Coupas)

References

Page on the Senate website
People from Allier 1944 births Living people French senators of the Fifth Republic Union for a Popular Movement politicians Senators of Allier The Republicans (France) politicians {{France-politician-UMP-stub Cérilly, Allier