Didier Robert

Didier Robert (born 26 April 1964) is a French politician who served as President of the Regional Council of Réunion from 2010 to 2021, and as a member of the National Assembly for Réunion's 3rd constituency.

You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in French. (December 2008) Click [show] for important translation instructions.

View a machine-translated version of the French article.
Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia.
Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article.
You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing French Wikipedia article at [[:fr:Didier Robert]]; see its history for attribution.
You may also add the template {{Translated|fr|Didier Robert}} to the talk page.
For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.

Quick Facts President of the Regional Council of Réunion, Preceded by ...

Didier Robert


President of the Regional Council of Réunion
In office 26 March 2010 – 2 July 2021
Preceded by	Paul Vergès
Succeeded by	Huguette Bello
Member of the French Senate for Réunion
In office 2014–2017
Preceded by	Jacqueline Farreyrol

Personal details
Born	(1964-04-26) 26 April 1964 (age 61) Saint-Pierre, Réunion
Political party	The Republicans
Education	University of Limoges

Early life and education

Didier Robert was born in Saint-Pierre, Réunion, on 26 April 1964, to Anthony Robert and Jocelyn Clairivet. His father was a police officer and his mother was a teacher. He graduated from the University of Limoges with a diploma in business and administration management in 1983, and with a bachelor's degree in economic and social administration in 1985.^[1]^[2]

Career

In 1987, Robert started working as a social and legal secretariat in Le Tampon's town hall. He was the director of Compagnie Générale Automobile, a company owned by the family of André Thien Ah Koon [fr], from 1989 to 1990. He worked as chief of staff for Koon during his time as mayor of Le Tampon from 1991 to 1998, and also for Alain Bénard, the mayor of Saint-Paul, Réunion, from 2000 to 2005.^[2]

In the 2001 election Robert was elected as deputy mayor of Le Tampon as a part of Koon's electoral list. He was elected mayor after Koon resigned.^[2] In the 2007 election Robert won a seat in the National Assembly for Réunion's 3rd constituency.^[3]

Robert, a member of The Republicans, defeated Presidnet Paul Vergès, founder of the Communist Party of Réunion, in the 2010 regional election.^[4] Robert was chosen by the Union for a Popular Movement to lead it for the 2015 regional election.^[5] The alliance he led defeated Huguette Bello and held 29 seats on the Regional Council of Réunion compared to Bello's 16.^[6]

Remove ads

Early life and education

Career

References

Works cited

Wikiwand - on