Laurent Beauvais is a French politician and the incumbent President of the Regional Council

President of the regional council

In Italy, the President of the Regional Council is the Speaker who heads the consiglio regionale of a regione, a state-level territory....

 of 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...

. He is a member of the Socialist Party

Socialist Party (France)

The Socialist Party is a social-democratic political party in France and the largest party of the French centre-left. It is one of the two major contemporary political parties in France, along with the center-right Union for a Popular Movement...

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Born in Nogent-le-Rotrou

Nogent-le-Rotrou

Nogent-le-Rotrou is a commune in the Eure-et-Loir department in northern France.It is a sub-prefecture and is located on the Huisne River, 56 kilometres west of Chartres on the RN23 and 150 kilometres south west of Paris, to which it is linked by both rail and motorway...

, Eure-et-Loir

Eure-et-Loir

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, he grew up in Evreux

Évreux

Évreux is a commune in the Eure department, of which it is the capital, in Haute Normandie in northern France.-History:In late Antiquity, the town, attested in the fourth century CE, was named Mediolanum Aulercorum, "the central town of the Aulerci", the Gallic tribe then inhabiting the area...

 then Mortrée

Mortrée

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 near 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....

 (Orne

Orne

Orne is a department in the northwest of France, named after the river Orne.- History :Orne is one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution, on March 4, 1790. It was created from parts of the former provinces of Normandy and Perche.- Geography :Orne is in the region of...

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He joined the Socialist Party at age 21 and he was elected to the Mortrée

Mortrée

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 municipal council in 1977. He worked in the cabinets of various Socialist Research Ministers, and was a member of the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). He did not run for re-election in Mortrée in 1989, choosing to run on the list of François Doubin

François Doubin

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

 (MRG

Left Radical Party

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) in 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....

. Following Doubin's election, be became deputy mayor. Elected opposition regional councillor in 1998, elected to lead the Communauté de communes

Communauté de communes

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of Argentan in 2001, he finally became vice-president of the 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 Council; responsible for Education, Higher Education and Research under Socialist President Philippe Duron

Philippe Duron

Philippe Duron is a French politician. He is mayor of Caen and deputy for Caen-Ouest.Philippe Duron was born June 19, 1947 in Antony . He received a degree in history in 1975 and was a teacher until 1997. His political models are Pierre Mendès-France and François Mitterrand...

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Following Philippe Duron's election as Mayor of Caen

Caen

Caen is a commune in northwestern France. It is the prefecture of the Calvados department and the capital of the Basse-Normandie region. It is located inland from the English Channel....

, he succeeded him as President of the Regional Council

President of the regional council

In Italy, the President of the Regional Council is the Speaker who heads the consiglio regionale of a regione, a state-level territory....

. He will run for a full term in his own right as the PS' top candidate in the region in the 2010 regional elections

French regional elections, 2010

Regional elections were held in France on 14 and 21 March 2010. At stake were the presidencies of each of France's 26 régions, which, though they do not have legislative autonomy, manage sizable budgets....

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