Bruno Le Roux

Bruno Le Roux is a French politician of the Socialist Party who served as the Minister of the Interior of France from December 2016 to March 2017.

Political career

Le Roux was a member of the National Assembly of France where he represented the Seine-Saint-Denis department and was the leader of the Socialist, Radical, [Citizen and Miscellaneous Left|Socialist, Ecologist & Republican] Group. He led the Socialist Party in the National Assembly from 2012 until 2016.
In the Socialist Party's 2011 [French Socialist Party presidential primary|2011 primaries], Le Roux endorsed François Hollande as the party's candidate for the 2012 presidential election.
On 6 December 2016, Le Roux was named Minister of the Interior in the government of Bernard Cazeneuve.
In 2015, news media reported that Le Roux was included in a Russian blacklist of prominent people from the European Union who are not allowed to enter the country.
Ahead of the Socialist Party's 2017 [French Socialist Party presidential primary|2017 primaries], Le Roux endorsed Manuel Valls as the party's candidate for the presidential election later that year.

Resignation

On 21 March 2017, Le Roux was forced to resign from the government when it was revealed that he employed his two daughters, aged just 15 and 16, as parliamentary assistants and paid them a total of €55,000, using public funds, while he served as a deputy in the National Assembly. He was succeeded by Matthias Fekl, the Minister of State for Foreign Trade.