François Doubin is a French politician and former cabinet minister. He is a member and former leader of the Radical Party of the Left.

President of the Left Radical Movement

Left Radical Party

The Radical Party of the Left is a minor social-liberal, and in opposition to its common understanding of its name, a moderate centre-left political party in France advocating radicalism, secularism to its french extend known as laïcité, progressivism, pro-Europeanism, individual freedom and...

 (MRG) between 1985 and 1988, he became Delegate Minister for Commerce and Handicrafts and later Delegate Minister for Crafts, Commerce and Consumers in the Michel Rocard

Michel Rocard

Michel Rocard is a French politician, member of the Socialist Party . He served as Prime Minister under François Mitterrand from 1988 to 1991, during which he created the Revenu minimum d'insertion , a social minimum welfare program for indigents, and led the Matignon Accords regarding the status...

 government between 1988 and 1992.

He was Mayor of Argentan

Argentan

Argentan is a commune, and the seat of two cantons and of an arrondissement in the Orne department in north-western France.Argentan is located NE of Rennes, ENE of the Mont Saint-Michel, SE of Cherbourg, SSE of Caen, SW of Rouen and N of Le Mans....

 between 1989 and 2001 and Basse-Normandie

Basse-Normandie

Lower Normandy is an administrative region of France. It was created in 1956, when the Normandy region was divided into Lower Normandy and Upper Normandy...

regional councillor between 1998 and 2004.