Bernard Cazeneuve

Bernard Cazeneuve
Cazeneuve in 2018
Prime Minister of France
In office 6 December 2016 – 15 May 2017
President	François Hollande
Preceded by	Manuel Valls
Succeeded by	Édouard Philippe
Minister of the Interior
In office 2 April 2014 – 6 December 2016
Prime Minister	Manuel Valls
Preceded by	Manuel Valls
Succeeded by	Bruno Le Roux
Minister delegate for the Budget
In office 19 March 2013 – 2 April 2014
Prime Minister	Jean-Marc Ayrault
Preceded by	Jérôme Cahuzac
Succeeded by	Christian Eckert
Minister delegate for European Affairs
In office 16 May 2012 – 19 March 2013
Prime Minister	Jean-Marc Ayrault
Preceded by	Jean Leonetti
Succeeded by	Thierry Repentin
Member of the National Assembly
In office 16 June 2017 – 20 June 2017
Preceded by	Geneviève Gosselin-Fleury
Succeeded by	Sonia Krimi
Constituency	Manche's 4th constituency
In office 20 June 2012 – 21 July 2012
Preceded by	Claude Gatignol
Succeeded by	Geneviève Gosselin-Fleury
Constituency	Manche's 4th constituency
In office 20 June 2007 – 16 June 2012
Preceded by	Jean Lemière
Succeeded by	Constituency abolished
Constituency	Manche's 5th constituency
In office 12 June 1997 – 18 June 2002
Preceded by	Yves Bonnet
Succeeded by	Jean Lemière
Constituency	Manche's 5th constituency
Mayor of Cherbourg-Octeville
In office 19 March 2001 – 23 June 2012
Preceded by	Jean-Pierre Godefroy
Succeeded by	Jean-Michel Houllegate
Personal details
Born	Bernard Guy Georges Cazeneuve (1963-06-02) 2 June 1963 (age 61) Senlis, France
Political party	The Convention (since 2023)
Other political affiliations	Radical Party of the Left (1985–1987) Socialist Party (1987–2022)
Spouse	Véronique Beau ​ (died 2024)​
Children	2
Alma mater	Institut d'études politiques de Bordeaux
Occupation	Jurist Lawyer
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Bernard Guy Georges Cazeneuve (French pronunciation: [bɛʁnaʁ kaznœv]; born 2 June 1963) is a French politician and lawyer who served as Prime Minister of France from 6 December 2016 to 15 May 2017. A member of the Socialist Party, he represented Manche’s 5th constituency in the National Assembly from 1997 to 2002 and again from 2007 to 2012, in addition to the department's 4th constituency briefly in 2012 and 2017. On 4 May 2022, following the Socialist Party's electoral coalition agreement with the leftist La France Insoumise, he left the Socialist Party because he felt La France Insoumise did not match the values and morals of the Socialist Party.^[1]

He was Mayor of Cherbourg-Octeville from 2001 to 2012. In 2012, he was appointed Minister delegate for European Affairs in the Ayrault government. A year later, Cazeneuve was named Minister delegate for the Budget after the resignation of Jérôme Cahuzac. In 2014, he was appointed Minister of the Interior in the First Valls government, a role he retained with the formation of the Second Valls government. In 2016, Cazeneuve was appointed Prime Minister by President François Hollande, after Manuel Valls resigned to concentrate on his candidacy for the 2017 presidential election. Following the election of Emmanuel Macron as President of the French Republic, Cazeneuve resigned from office and returned to private practice.