Marylise Lebranchu


Marylise Lebranchu is a French politician. She serves as Minister of the Reform of the State and of Decentralisation under Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault.

Biography

She is a member of the Socialist Party and of the Socialiste, radical, citoyen et divers gauche parliamentary group.
She served in the Cabinet of Prime Minister Lionel Jospin from 1997 to 2002. From 2000 to 2002, she served as Minister of Justice. She then served as a member of the National Assembly of France of the Finistère department. On 16 May 2012, she was named Minister of the Reform of the State and of Decentralization in the first Cabinet of French President Francois Hollande and Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault and Manuel Valls.