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Guillaume Garot
Member of the National Assembly for Mayenne's 1st constituency
Incumbent
Assumed office 2 May 2014
Preceded by	Sylvie Pichot
In office 17 June 2007 – 17 June 2012
Preceded by	Henri Houdouin
Succeeded by	Sylvie Pichot
French Minister for Food Industry
In office 2012–2014
President	François Hollande
Prime Minister	Jean-Marc Ayrault
Succeeded by	Stéphane Le Foll
Mayor of Laval
In office 2008–2012
Preceded by	François d'Aubert
Succeeded by	Jean-Christophe Boyer
Personal details
Born	(1966-05-29) 29 May 1966 (age 58) Laval, France
Political party	Socialist Party
Alma mater	Pantheon-Sorbonne University Sciences Po

Guillaume Garot (French pronunciation: [ɡijom ɡaʁo]; born 29 May 1966) is a French politician of the Socialist Party (PS) who has served as a member of the National Assembly from 2007 until 2012 and since 2014, representing the Mayenne department. ^[1] From 2012 until 2014, he was Junior Minister for the Food Industry under minister Stéphane Le Foll in the government of Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault.

Political career

Garot became a member of the National Assembly in the 2007 French legislative election. During his first term in parliament, he served on the Committee on Economic Affairs (2007-2009) and the Defence Committee (2009-2012) before his appointment to the government. ^[2] In addition to his activities in national politics, he was the mayor of Laval from 2008 until 2012. ^[3]

At the Socialist Party's Reims Congress in 2008, Garot supported Ségolène Royal's candidacy as party leader; she eventually lost against Martine Aubry. From 2011, he also worked as spokesperson for Royal's campaign to become the party's candidate for the 2012 French presidential election. ^[4]

While in government, Garot oversaw the French government's response to the 2013 horse meat scandal. ^[5]

After leaving government in 2014, Garot was part of the Finance Committee (2014-2015) and the Committee on Legal Affairs (2014-2017). Since 2017, he has been serving on the Committee on Sustainable Development and Regional Planning. ^[6] In 2015, he was the parliament's rapporteur on legislation obliging supermarkets to hand over unused food to charity and not destroy leftover products. ^{[7] [8]}

In addition to his committee assignments, Garot is part of the French-Japanese Parliamentary Friendship Group and the French-Tunisian Parliamentary Friendship Group. ^[9]

Other activities

• National Council on Food (CNA), Chairman (2016-2019)

Political positions

In July 2019, Garot voted against the French ratification of the European Union’s Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) with Canada. ^[10]

In 2023, Garot publicly endorsed the re-election of the Socialist Party's chairman Olivier Faure. ^[11]

References

External links

• Le blog d'information de Guillaume Garot (in French)

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