Bruno Le Roux (; born 2 May 1965) is a French politician of the Socialist Party who served as the Minister of the Interior of France from December 2016 to March 2017.
Political career Le Roux was a member of the National Assembly of France where he represented the Seine-Saint-Denis department and was the leader of the Socialist, Ecologist & Republican Group. He led the Socialist Party in the National Assembly from 2012 until 2016.
In the Socialist Party's 2011 primaries, Le Roux endorsed François Hollande as the party's candidate for the 2012 presidential election.Estelle Gross (6 July 2011), Primaire : qui soutient qui au PS ? L'Obs.
On 6 December 2016, Le Roux was named Minister of the Interior in the government of Bernard Cazeneuve.Elizabeth Pineau (6 December 2016), Senior Socialist lawmaker named new French interior minister Reuters
In 2015, news media reported that Le Roux was included in a Russian blacklist of prominent people from the European Union who are not allowed to enter the country.Laurence Norman (May 30, 2015), Russia Produces Blacklist of EU People Banned From Entering Country The Wall Street Journal.European Union anger at Russian travel blacklist BBC News, 31 May 2015.
Ahead of the Socialist Party's 2017 primaries, Le Roux endorsed Manuel Valls as the party's candidate for the presidential election later that year.Grégoire Poussielgue and Pierre-Alain Furbury (15 December 2016), Primaire du PS : Valls engrange les soutiens Les Échos.
Resignation On 21 March 2017, Le Roux was forced to resign from the government when it was revealed that he employed his two daughters, aged just 15 and 16, as parliamentary assistants and paid them a total of €55,000 ($59,000), using public funds, while he served as a deputy in the National Assembly.Anne-Sylvaine Chassany (21 March 2017), French interior minister resigns over jobs scandal Financial Times He was succeeded by Matthias Fekl, the Minister of State for Foreign Trade.
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