Olivier Dussopt

Olivier Dussopt
Dussopt in 2023
Minister of Labour, Employment and Economic Inclusion
Assumed office
20 May 2022
Prime MinisterÉlisabeth Borne
Preceded byÉlisabeth Borne
Minister of Public Action and Accounts
In office
24 November 2017 – 20 May 2022
Prime MinisterÉdouard Philippe
Jean Castex
Preceded byGérald Darmanin
Succeeded byGabriel Attal
Member of the National Assembly
for Ardèche's 2nd constituency
In office
22 June 2022 – 22 July 2022
Preceded byMichèle Victory
Succeeded byLaurence Heydel Grillere
In office
20 June 2007 – 24 December 2017
Preceded byGérard Weber
Succeeded byMichèle Victory
Mayor of Annonay
In office
16 March 2008 – 10 July 2017
Preceded byGérard Weber
Succeeded byAntoinette Scherer
Member of the Regional Council of Rhône-Alpes
In office
10 July 2006 – 17 March 2008
Personal details
Born (1978-08-16) 16 August 1978 (age 45)
Annonay, France
Political partyRenaissance (2022–present)
Other political
affiliations
Socialist Party (2000–2017)
Independent (2017–2020)
Territories of Progress (2020–2022)
Alma materGrenoble Institute of Political Studies

Olivier Dussopt (born 16 August 1978) is a French politician who has served as minister of labour, employment and integration in the government of prime minister Élisabeth Borne since 2022. He previously served as minister of public action and accounts in the governments of successive prime ministers Édouard Philippe and Jean Castex from 2019 to 2022. Dussopt was a member of the National Assembly for Ardèche from 2007 to 2017.

Career

Dussopt was a member of the Socialist Party from 2000 to 2017. From 2007 until 2017, he was a member of the National Assembly. In parliament, he served on the Committee on Economic Affairs (2007-2009) and the Committee on Legal Affairs (2009-2017).

In addition to his parliamentary activities, Dussopt worked on Manuel Valls’ campaign team in the Socialist Party's primaries for the 2017 presidential election. Following the 2017 French legislative election, he was among a minority that voted against the Philippe government's proposal for the 2018 national budget.

On 27 November 2017, Dussopt was appointed by President Macron to the position of Secretary of State to the Ministry of Public Action and Accounts, under the leadership of minister Gérald Darmanin. Soon after that, he was expelled from the Socialist Party. On 24 December 2017 he resigned from the National Assembly.

In 2020, he created the new movement Territories of Progress with fellow minister Jean-Yves Le Drian.

Controversy

On 20 May 2020, French online investigative and opinion newspaper Mediapart revealed that the French utility company Saur gave him a present of lithographs by Gérard Garouste for a value of 2,000 euros in January 2017, just a few days before he announced a contract for a hydroelectric turbine with the same company in his town of Annonay.

After the revelations, he initially answered that it was "A gift from a friend", but later he recognized that it was a gift from the company, and he promised to give back the lithographs. Additionally, the Saur employee who gave him the gift declared that he was not a friend of Dussopt, but that Dussopt was just a client.

Private life

In March 2023, Dussopt outed himself as a gay man in an interview with french magazine Têtu.

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