Jacques Gillot
Guadeloupean politician (born 1948)
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Jacques Gillot, b. 4 March 1948 in Gosier, on the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe, was the President of the General Council of Guadeloupe.[1] He has been chairing the General Council March 2001 to April 2015. Gillot was elected to the French senate in 2004.[2]
He is also the founding member of the Guadeloupe Unie Socialisme and Réalités ("United Guadeloupe Socialism and Realities") political party. Gillot is a physician, is married and has three children.
Biography
A doctor by profession, Jacques Gillot was elected mayor of Le Gosier in 1989, a municipality where he subsequently served as deputy mayor. In 1993, he became a general councilor for the canton of Gosier-1 and assumed the presidency of the general council in 2001.
He was elected senator on September 26, 2004, and re-elected on September 25, 2011. He is a member of the Socialist group in the Senate and sits on the Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Armed Forces Committee.[3]
He is a founding member of Guadeloupe Unie, Socialisme et Réalités (GUSR), a local left-wing party affiliated with the Socialist Party (France), but which in 2017 became close to Renaissance (French political party) en Marche.
He is married and has three children.[4]
