Jean-Baptiste Gastinne | |
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![]() Gastinne in Le Havre, 2021 | |
Vice-president of the Regional Council of Normandy in charge of Transport, Ports and Seine Valley | |
Assumed office 4 January 2016 | |
President | HervéMorin |
Regional Councilor for Upper Normandy (later Normandy) | |
Assumed office 22 March 2010 | |
President | |
President of Le Havre Seine Métropole | |
In office 5 April 2019 –15 July 2020 | |
Preceded by | Luc Lemonnier |
Succeeded by | Édouard Philippe |
Mayor of Le Havre | |
In office 30 March 2019 –5 July 2020 | |
Preceded by | Luc Lemonnier |
Succeeded by | Édouard Philippe |
Personal details | |
Born | Paris,France | June 2,1967
Political party | The Republicans (since 2015) |
Other political affiliations | UMP (2002-2015) FRS-PCD (2002-2016) |
Jean-Baptiste Gastinne (born June 2,1967 in Paris) [1] is a French teacher and politician. He was the mayor of Le Havre from 2019 to 2020.
Holder of an agrégation in history,he taught at Jacques-Monod college in Le Havre from 1993 to 1994 then at Raoul-Dufy college between 1994 and 2010. He has been teaching since 2010 at François-I high school in Le Havre. [2] In 2019,he interrupted his professional activity after his election as mayor of Le Havre.
In 2008,he received a doctorate in history from the University of Paris IV Sorbonne. [3]
He was a member of the UMP and then of the Republicans since 2002. Between 2002 and 2016,he was a member of the Forum of Social Republicans,which was renamed to Christian Democratic Party. [4]
In 2008,he was elected to the Havre city council on the list led by Antoine Rufenacht. [5] In 2010,he was elected regional councilor for the Upper Normandy region on Bruno Le Maire's list. [5] [6]
In 2011,he became deputy mayor of Le Havre,Édouard Philippe,in charge of town planning and the environment. [7] In 2014,he was elected vice-president of the agglomeration community of Le Havre and then of the Le Havre Seine Métropole urban community [8] in charge of economic development and tourism. [9]
During the 2015 regional elections in Normandy,he was elected on the list of HervéMorin [10] who appointed him the 6th vice-president of the Region in charge of transport,ports and the Seine Valley. [11]
On March 30,2019,after the resignation of the mayor of Le Havre Luc Lemonnier,replacing Édouard Philippe who had become Prime Minister,he was elected mayor in the municipal council. [12] [13]
On April 4,2019,he was elected president of the Le Havre Seine Métropole urban community. [14]
Following the 2020 municipal elections and the return of Édouard Philippe to Le Havre,Jean-Baptiste Gastinne left him his post of mayor and became his first deputy.
Jean-Baptiste Gastinne is co-author and author of two books on the history of Le Havre: