Joël Giraud (born 14 October 1959) is a

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politician who briefly served as Minister of Territorial Cohesion and Relations with Local Authorities under Prime Minister Jean Castex in 2022. A member of both

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(LREM) and the Radical Movement (MR), he previously represented the 2nd constituency of the Hautes-Alpes

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in the National Assembly from 2002 to 2020 and served as Secretary of State for Rurality from 2020 until 2022.

Political career

An alumnus of the École nationale d'administration, Giraud first entered the municipal council of L'Argentière-la-Bessée in 1986. He held the mayorship of L'Argentière-la-Bessée from 1989 to 2017, as well as one of the vice presidencies of the Regional Council of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur under President Michel Vauzelle from 2004 to 2014. Elected to Parliament in Hautes-Alpes's 2nd constituency in

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, he was reelected in

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and

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. He is a former Secretary of the Economic Affairs Committee. He was a member of the Radical Party of the Left until 2017, when it was merged with the Radical Party into Radical Movement, which Giraud joined. He has also been a member of Renaissance since 2016. Giraud was appointed to the Castex government in 2020 as Secretary of State for Rurality under Minister

Jacqueline Gourault Jacqueline Gourault (; née Doliveux, born 20 November 1950) is a French politician who served as Minister of Territorial Cohesion and Relations with Local Authorities in the governments of successive Prime Ministers Édouard Philippe and Jean C ...

. Upon her appointment to the Constitutional Council in 2022, he succeeded her as Minister of Territorial Cohesion and Relations with Local Authorities. Following the 2022 legislative election, Giraud stood as a candidate for the National Assembly's presidency; in an internal vote, he lost against Yaël Braun-Pivet.

Personal life

Giraud is openly gay."Joël Giraud, l’arme rurale"
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Political career

Personal life

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