Didier Guillaume | |
Office: | Minister of State of Monaco |
Term Start: | 2 September 2024 |
Succeeding: | Pierre Dartout |
Office2: | Minister of Agriculture and Food |
Term Start2: | 16 October 2018 |
Term End2: | 6 July 2020 |
Primeminister2: | Édouard Philippe |
Predecessor2: | Stéphane Travert |
Successor2: | Julien Denormandie |
Office4: | Senator for Drôme |
Term Start4: | 1 October 2008 |
Term End4: | 16 November 2018 |
Office3: | President of the Socialist group in the Senate |
Term Start3: | 15 April 2014 |
Term End3: | 22 January 2018 |
Predecessor3: | François Rebsamen |
Successor3: | Patrick Kanner |
Office5: | President of the General Council of Drôme |
Term Start5: | 1 April 2004 |
Term End5: | 2 April 2015 |
Predecessor5: | Jean Mouton |
Successor5: | Patrick Labaune |
Office6: | Mayor of Bourg-de-Péage |
Term Start6: | 19 June 1995 |
Term End6: | 1 April 2004 |
Predecessor6: | Henri Durand |
Successor6: | Jean-Félix Pupel |
Birth Date: | 11 May 1959 |
Birth Place: | Bourg-de-Péage, France |
Nationality: | French |
Party: | Independent |
Didier Guillaume (in French pronounced as /didje ɡijom/; born 11 May 1959) is a French politician who served as Minister of Agriculture and Food in the government of Prime Minister Édouard Philippe from 2018 to 2020.[1] A member of the Socialist Party until 2018, he was President of the General Council of Drôme from 2004 to 2015, Senator for Drôme from 2008 to 2018 and president of the Socialist group in the Senate from 2014 to 2018.
In 2004, after his election as President of the General Council of Drôme, Guillaume resigned his post as Mayor of Bourg-de-Péage, which he had held since the 1995 municipal election. The town is the chef-lieu of the canton of Bourg-de-Péage, represented by Guillaume in the Drôme General Council from 1998 until 2015.
In 2008, Guillaume was elected to the Senate. He served as First Vice President of the Senate under the leadership of President Jean-Pierre Bel from 2011 to 2014, when he became president of the Socialist group and Leader of the Opposition in the Senate, as the right had won a majority at the 2014 election.
After leaving the presidency of the Drôme General Council following the victory of The Republicans at the 2015 departmental election, he was succeeded by Patrick Kanner as group president in the Senate in 2018. Guillaume also worked as Manuel Valls's campaign director in the Socialist Party's primaries for the 2017 presidential election.[2]
Guillaume served as Minister of Agriculture and Food under Prime Minister Édouard Philippe from 2018 to 2020, succeeding Stéphane Travert. After taking office, he vowed to take his decisions "in independence" from the industry lobbies.[3]
Guillaume stated he would run for Mayor of Biarritz in 2020 against fellow government member Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, but they both withdrew their candidacies before the election.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Gulliaume called on unemployed citizens to help the country's farmers in their production process as seasonal foreign workers were absent. 50,000 people responded favourably.[4] He was succeeded by Julien Denormandie and retired from politics.
Didier Guillaume was announced as the forthcoming Minister of State of Monaco on 10 June 2024, to succeed the incumbent Pierre Dartout for a four-year term beginning on 2 September.[5]