Olivier Faure
Olivier Faure | |
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Faure in 2018 | |
| First Secretary of the Socialist Party | |
| Assumed office 7 April 2018 | |
| Preceded by | Rachid Temal (interim) Jean-Christophe Cambadélis |
| President of the New Left group in the National Assembly | |
| In office 13 December 2016 – 11 April 2018 | |
| Preceded by | Bruno Le Roux |
| Succeeded by | Valérie Rabault |
| Member of the National Assembly for Seine-et-Marne's 11th constituency | |
| Assumed office 20 June 2012 | |
| Spokesperson of the Socialist Party | |
| In office 26 August 2014 – 17 December 2016 | |
| Succeeded by | Karim Bouamrane |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 18 August 1968 La Tronche, France |
| Political party | Socialist Party |
| Alma mater | University of Orléans Panthéon-Sorbonne University |
| Profession | Jurist |
Olivier Faure ([ɔlivje fɔʁ] ⓘ; born 18 August 1968) is a French politician who has served as the First Secretary of the Socialist Party since 2018 and Member of the National Assembly for Seine-et-Marne's 11th constituency since 2012. He was elected to the post of first secretary in the party's Aubervilliers Congress and re-elected in the 2021 Villeurbanne Congress. Faure was previously the head of the New Left group (French: Groupe Nouvelle Gauche), the parliamentary group formed around the PS in the National Assembly, from December 2016 to April 2018.