Yves Jégo


Yves Jégo is a French politician, député for the third constituency of Seine-et-Marne in the National Assembly, and Mayor of Montereau-Fault-Yonne.
He is the general delegate of the Union of Democrats and Independents, since the party's creation in October 2012. He is also vice president of the Radical Party and president of the Communauté de communes des Deux Fleuves.
He was appointed Secretary of State for Overseas in the government of François Fillon on 18 March 2008. Jégo was the Minister in charge during the 2009 French Caribbean general strikes, in which the strikers were protesting against high living costs and particularly the costs of food and fuel. As he undertook the dismantling of monopolies, his role was the subject of controversy. He was replaced by Marie-Luce Penchard on 23 June 2009 and was not given another portfolio.
Jégo has been an MP since 2002, and mayor of Montereau-Fault-Yonne since 1995. He was the spokesman for the Union for a Popular Movement, when the party was ruling. He is also founder and president of a local party Mieux Vivre Ensemble, formerly known as Mouvement des Seine-et-Marnais. He announced in June 2018 that he would retire from politics and as a deputy in mid-July 2018.

Political career

Governmental functions
Secretary of State for Overseas: 2008–2009.
Electoral mandates
While most members of the French parliament are also mayors or general or regional councillor, Jégo is one of the few to cumulate three elected offices.
1. National Assembly of France
2. Municipal Council
3. Community of communes Council
Regional Council
Accumulation of electoral mandates
According to French law against accumulation of electoral mandates, Jégo should have resigned from one of the three first mandates in this list before 21 April 2010. But giving as a pretext a legal complaint from the Front National's candidates, he still held the three of them, plus his local mandate of president of the « communauté de communes des deux fleuves » until his resignation from the Regional Council in July 2011.
In September 2011, Yves Jégo failed to become a member of the Senate of France.
In June 2012, he was re elected as a member of the National Assembly.

Voluntary associations

Yves Jégo is involved in a number of voluntary associations.
A confirmed blogger himself, Jégo prosecuted two blogs for defamation and insult.
In 2007, he sued Frédéric Maupin and Jean-Luc Pujo, who called him a "liar" and "manipulator" during the 2007 legislative campaign. His suit was dismissed in November 2007.
In 2008, he sued a local opponent, Yves Poey, who called him an "apparatchik" and a "schemer" during the local elections campaign. He won partly in March 2008, but Poey eventually won his appeal in May 2010.