Marie-Josée Roig
Marie-Josée Roig | |
|---|---|
| Mayor of Avignon | |
| In office 25 June 1995 – 5 April 2014 | |
| Preceded by | Guy Ravier |
| Succeeded by | Cécile Helle |
| Member of the National Assembly for Vaucluse's 1st constituency | |
| In office 20 June 2007 – 20 June 2012 | |
| Preceded by | Alain Cortade |
| Succeeded by | Michèle Fournier-Armand |
| Minister of Family | |
| In office 31 March 2004 – 29 November 2004 | |
| President | Jacques Chirac |
| Prime Minister | Jean-Pierre Raffarin |
| Preceded by | Christian Jacob |
| Succeeded by | Philippe Douste-Blazy |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 12 May 1938 Perpignan, France |
| Died | 7 August 2024 (aged 86) Avignon, France |
| Political party | RPR UMP |
Marie-Josée Roig (French: [maʁi ʒoze ʁwaɡ]; 12 May 1938 – 7 August 2024), née Méliorat, was a French politician.
RPR and later UMP Mayor of Avignon from 1995 to 2014, she was also president of the Communauté d'agglomération du Grand Avignon from the time when it was established in 2001 until 2014.
Roig was deputy for Vaucluse from 1993 to 1997, and then from 2002 until her entry into the government on 31 March 2004 as Minister of Family and Childhood. She later became Minister Delegate for the Interior from 29 November 2004 to 31 May 2005, before once again finding herself on the National Assembly's benches for Vaucluse's 1st constituency between 2007 and 2012.