Pierre Méhaignerie | |
Office: | Mayor of Vitré |
Term Start: | 25 March 1977 |
Term End: | 25 May 2020 |
Predecessor: | René Crinon |
Successor: | Isabelle Le Callennec |
Office2: | Minister of Justice |
Term Start2: | 30 March 1993 |
Term End2: | 11 May 1995 |
President2: | François Mitterrand |
Primeminister2: | Édouard Balladur |
Predecessor2: | Michel Vauzelle |
Successor2: | Jacques Toubon |
Office3: | Deputy of Ille-et-Vilaine's 5th constituency |
Term Start3: | 1995 |
Term End3: | 2012 |
Predecessor3: | Danielle Dufeu |
Successor3: | Isabelle Le Callennec |
Birth Date: | 4 May 1939 |
Birth Place: | Balazé, France |
Children: | 2 |
Party: | UDI |
Pierre Méhaignerie (born 4 May 1939) is a French politician. He is a former deputy of the Ille-et-Vilaine's 5th constituency and the former mayor of Vitré (re-elected in March 2008).
He was elected in 1973 to the French parliament in the Ille-et-Vilaine's 3rd constituency and became mayor of Vitré in 1977.[1] He was Minister of Agriculture from 1977 to 1981 and Minister of Justice[2] from 1993 to 1995. A former member of the UDF political party, he was general secretary of the right-wing UMP from 2004 to 2007.