Arnaud Montebourg
| Arnaud Montebourg | |
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Declaring his candidacy for president of France, 2010
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| Minister of Industrial Renewal | |
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In office 16 May 2012 – 25 August 2014 |
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| Prime Minister |
Jean-Marc Ayrault Manuel Valls |
| Preceded by | Éric Besson |
| Succeeded by | Emmanuel Macron |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
30 October 1962 Clamecy, France |
| Political party | Socialist Party |
| Domestic partner | Audrey Pulvar (2010–2012) |
| Alma mater |
Pantheon-Sorbonne University Institute of Political Studies, Paris |
Arnaud Montebourg (French pronunciation: [aʁ.no mɔ̃t.buʁ]; born 30 October 1962) is a French politician who served in the government of France as Minister of Industrial Renewal from May 2012 to August 2014. Between April 2014 and August 2014, as a member of the short-lived first Valls government, Montebourg held additional ministerial responsibilities whereby his overall brief encompassed the Economy, Industrial Renewal and Information Technology. He was succeed by former investment banker Emmanuel Macron.
Previously he served as Deputy for the sixth district of Saône-et-Loire in the National Assembly of France from 1997 to 2012, and he was President of the General Council of Saône et Loire from 2008 to 2012. A member of the Socialist Party, Montebourg was a candidate in the Socialist presidential primary of 2011.
On 21 August 2016, Montebourg announced that he intended to seek the Socialist Party's nomination for the 2017 French presidential election. In the first round of the primary, held on 22 January, Montebourg was eliminated, once again coming in third place, with Benoît Hamon and Manuel Valls progressing to the runoff; Montebourg pledged his support for Hamon shortly thereafter.
Born at Clamecy in Nièvre, he is the son of Michel Montebourg, born in 1933, a civil servant employed in the Ministry of Economy and Finances, and Leïla Ould Cadi, born in 1939 in Oran, a professor of Algerian descent, who was born to a family of wālis (governors) from Hachem, northern Algeria.
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