François Sauvadet

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François Sauvadet
President of the Departmental Council of Côte-d'Or
Incumbent
Assumed office 20 March 2008
Preceded by	Louis de Broissia
French Minister of Civil Service
In office 2011–2012
President	Nicolas Sarkozy
Prime Minister	François Fillon
Preceded by	François Baroin
Succeeded by	Marylise Lebranchu
Deputy for Côte-d'Or's 4th constituency in the National Assembly of France
In office 1993–2017
Preceded by	Gilbert Mathieu
Succeeded by	Yolaine de Courson
Personal details
Born	(1953-04-20) 20 April 1953 (age 71) Dijon, France
Political party	UDI

François Sauvadet (born 20 April 1953^[1]) is a French journalist and politician of the Union of Democrats and Independents (UDI) who has been serving as the president of the Côte-d'Or department in eastern France since 2008.

Sauvadet worked as a journalist at regional daily newspaper Le Bien Public from 1977 until 1993.^[2]

Sauvadet represented Côte-d'Or's 4th constituency in the French National Assembly from 1993 to 2016, when he resigned to focus on activities in regional politics.^[1][3]

Over the course of his career in national politics, Sauvadet served as the chair of the New Centre's parliamentary group from 2007^[2] to 2011 and as Minister for the Civil Service in the government of Prime Minister François Fillon from 2011 to 2012. Ahead of the 2012 French presidential election, he endorsed Nicolas Sarkozy as the center-right parties' joint candidate.^[4] In 2012, he was one of the founders of the Union of Democrats and Independents (UDI). On July 27, 2021, he was elected head of the Assemblée des départements de France.^[5]

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