Joël-Guy Batteux (16 December 1943 – 10 January 2021) was a French politician.
Biography
Batteux member of the
Socialist Party, the
Citizens' Movement, and the Association pour une gauche républicaine before returning to the Socialist Party. He was elected
Mayor of
Saint-Nazaire
Saint-Nazaire (; ; Gallo: ''Saint-Nazère/Saint-Nazaer'') is a commune in the Loire-Atlantique department in western France, in traditional Brittany.
The town has a major harbour on the right bank of the Loire estuary, near the Atlantic Ocean ...
in 1983 and served until 2014.
During the
1997 French legislative election
A French legislative election took place on 25 May and 1 June 1997 to elect the 11th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic. It was the consequence of President Jacques Chirac's decision to call the legislative election one year before ...
, Batteux ran under the Citizens' Movement ticket for the
National Assembly 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
Claude Évin, who replaced the outgoing
Deputy . He left the Citizens' Movement in 2002.
In 2008, Batteux was made a member of the
Order of the British Empire for his services to relations between
France and the
United Kingdom 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
French Economic, Social and Environmental Council.
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
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