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Born inMaulévrier inMaine-et-Loire,[1] Jean-Marc Ayrault is the son of Joseph Ayrault,[2] fromMaulévrier, formerly an agricultural worker who was subsequently employed in a textile factory, and of Georgette Uzenot, a former seamstress who later became a full-time housewife.
His early schooling was at the St Joseph Catholic primary school in Maulévrier, after which, between 1961 and 1968, he attended the Lycée Colbert, inCholet.[3] He subsequently studiedGerman at theUniversity of Nantes. In 1969/70 he spent a term at theUniversity of Würzburg in Bavaria. He graduated with a degree in German in 1971 and in 1972 obtained hisgraduate teaching diploma. He stayed in the Nantes area for his probationary teaching year which was undertaken inRezé. Between 1973 and his election to the National Assembly in 1986 he worked as a German language teacher in nearbySaint-Herblain.[4]
During his youth, Ayrault was a member of a movement of young Christians in rural areas. He joined theSocialist Party (PS) after the 1971Epinay Congress during whichFrançois Mitterrand took the party leadership. Ayrault was affiliated toJean Poperen's faction, one of the left-wing groups in the party. Elected in 1976 to the General Council ofLoire-Atlantiquedépartement, he subsequently becameMayor ofSaint-Herblain, located in the western suburbs ofNantes, in 1977. At 27, he was the youngest mayor of a French city of more than 30,000 inhabitants. He left the General Council in 1982.
He reached the PS national committee in 1979, then the executive of the party in 1981. He was first elected to the National Assembly in 1986, as representative of Loire Atlantiquedepartment, and he was consistently re-elected in subsequent elections. In 1989, he was chosen by the PS to conquer the mayoralty of Nantes, held by theRally for the Republic (RPR) party, and he won. Re-elected in 1995, 2001 and 2008, he was also president of theUrban Community of Nantes Métropole since 2002. He was an important "local baron" of the Socialist Party.
After the surprising victory of the "Plural Left" in the1997 legislative election, he was not appointed to the government but was instead designated as president of the Socialist parliamentary group in the National Assembly, a position he held for the next 15 years. Ayrault was a supporter ofFrançois Hollande during the Socialist Party's2011 primary election to choose its presidential candidate. Hollande was ultimately elected president in the2012 presidential election, and he appointed Ayrault asprime minister when he took office on 15 May 2012.
Ayrault's appointment to the country'shead of government prompted discussion within Arabic language mass media as to how to pronounce his surname. When his name is pronounced properly in French, it sounds "very much like a moderately rude Lebanese [slang] term" for aphallus.[6]Al-Arabiya decided to pronounce the name properly and write its Arabictransliteration "in a way that makes clear it is not the offensive word";CNN Arabic decided to pronounce Ayrault's surname by "voicing the last two letters in the written word."[6]
During his time in office, Ayrault and his ministers introduced a raft of progressive measures, including a reduction in the retirement age from 62 to 60 for some categories of workers, cuts in ministerial salaries of up to 30%,[7] a rise in the minimum wage, the introduction of a 36-month rent freeze on new contracts in some urban areas, an extension of social rebates on energy, increased educational support for low-income families,[8] the introduction of a system of subsidised employment for young people between 16 and 25,[9] and the extension of an entitlement to free health care to an additional 500,000 people.[10]
As part of a 2016 cabinet reshuffle, Hollande appointed Ayrault as foreign minister, replacingLaurent Fabius.[13]
Under Ayrault's leadership, the French foreign ministry summoned Vincent Mertens de Wilmars, Belgium's ambassador in Paris, in September 2016 after detaining two Belgian police officers on French territory for allegedly depositing migrants across the countries' border.[14]
In September 2016, Ayrault took part in the formal signing ceremony for theHinkley Point C nuclear power station, a controversial $24-billion Franco-Chinese investment project.[15]
When President Hollande published a list of bank deposits and property held by all 38 ministers for first time 2012,[17] Ayrault declared personal assets worth 1.5 million euros.[18]
Member of the National Assembly of France forLoire-Atlantique (3rd constituency): 1986–2012 (appointed Prime Minister in 2012). Elected in 1986, re-elected in 1988, 1993, 1997, 2002, 2007, 2012.
General council
General councillor ofLoire-Atlantique, elected in the canton of Saint-Herbain-Est: 1976–1982.
Community Council
Président of the Urban Community ofNantes Métropole: 1992–2012 (Resignation). Re-elected in 1995, 2001, and 2008.
Member of the Urban Community Council ofNantes Métropole: since 1992. Re-elected in 1995, 2001, and 2008.
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