Marylise Lebranchu
Marylise Lebranchu is a French politician from the Socialist Party. Born on April 25, 1947, in Loudéac, France, she studied at the University of Rennes. She has held several government roles.
She was Secretary of State for Small and Medium-Sized Businesses, Trade, Crafts and Consumption from 1997 to 2000, and then Minister of Justice from 2000 to 2002. Lebranchu served as a member of the National Assembly for Finistère’s 4th constituency from 1997 to 2012, and again from 2016 to 2017, and was the Questeur (financial administrator) of the Assembly from 2007 to 2012. In 2012, she became Minister of the Reform of the State and Decentralisation, a position she held until 2016 under President François Hollande.
Notably, in 1999 she ended a government ban on Coca-Cola products at the Dunkirk site. In party politics, she backed Martine Aubry in the 2011 Socialist primaries and Benoît Hamon in the 2017 primaries.
Personal life: she is married to Jean Lebranchu and has three children.
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