Joël Giraud (born 14 October 1959) is a French politician who briefly served as Minister of Territorial Cohesion and Relations with Local Authorities under Prime Minister Jean Castex in 2022. A member of both La République En Marche! (LREM) and the Radical Movement (MR), he previously represented the 2nd cons*uency of the Hautes-Alpes department in the National *embly from 2002 to 2020 and served as Secretary of State for Rurality from 2020 until 2022.

Contents

• 1 Political career
• 2 Personal life
• 3 See also
• 4 References

Political career

An alumnus of the École nationale d'administration, Giraud first entered the municipal council of L'Argentière-la-Bessée in 1986. He held the mayorship of L'Argentière-la-Bessée from 1989 to 2017, as well as one of the vice presidencies of the Regional Council of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur under President Michel Vauzelle from 2004 to 2014.

Elected to Parliament in Hautes-Alpes's 2nd cons*uency in 2002, he was reelected in 2007, 2012 and 2017. He is a former Secretary of the Economic Affairs Committee. He was a member of the Radical Party of the Left until 2017, when it was merged with the Radical Party into Radical Movement, which Giraud joined. He has also been a member of Renaissance since 2016.

Giraud was appointed to the Castex government in 2020 as Secretary of State for Rurality under Minister Jacqueline Gourault. Upon her appointment to the Cons*utional Council in 2022, he succeeded her as Minister of Territorial Cohesion and Relations with Local Authorities.

Personal life

Giraud is openly gay.

See also

• List of deputies from Hautes-Alpes

References