Olivier Dussopt (; born 16 August 1978) is a French politician who served as minister of labour, employment and integration in the government of prime minister Élisabeth Borne from 2022 to 2024.Victor Boiteau (20 May 2022), Changement dans la continuité: Darmanin, Le Maire, Attal… Ces ministres qui remettent ça dans le gouvernement Borne Libération. He previously served as minister of public action and accounts in the governments of successive prime ministers Édouard Philippe and Jean Castex from 2019 to 2022.Caroline Pailliez (December 10, 2018), Macron concessions to cost between 8-10 billion euros - minister Reuters. Dussopt was a member of the National Assembly for Ardèche from 2007 to 2017, and again in 2022 and 2024.
Career Dussopt was a member of the Socialist Party from 2000 to 2017. From 2007 until 2017, he was a member of the National Assembly. In parliament, he served on the Committee on Economic Affairs (2007–2009) and the Committee on Legal Affairs (2009–2017).Olivier Dussopt National Assembly.
In addition to his parliamentary activities, Dussopt worked on Manuel Valls’ campaign team in the Socialist Party's primaries for the 2017 presidential election.Primaire à gauche : Valls présente son QG et son état-major de campagne Les Échos, December 14, 2016. Following the 2017 French legislative election, he was among a minority that voted against the Philippe government's proposal for the 2018 national budget.Nicolas Chapuis and Enora Ollivier (November 24, 2017), Olivier Dussopt, un proche de Manuel Valls, entre au gouvernement Le Monde.Sara Stefanini (November 25, 2017), Macron names Socialist to oversee public finance Politico Europe.
On 27 November 2017, Dussopt was appointed by President Macron to the position of Secretary of State to the Ministry of Public Action and Accounts, under the leadership of minister Gérald Darmanin. Soon after that, he was expelled from the Socialist Party. On 24 December 2017 he resigned from the National Assembly.
In 2020, he created the new movement Territories of Progress with fellow minister Jean-Yves Le Drian.
Controversy On 20 May 2020, French online investigative and opinion newspaper Mediapart revealed that the French utility company Saur gave him a present of lithographs by Gérard Garouste for a value of 2,000 euros in January 2017, just a few days before he announced a contract for a hydroelectric turbine with the same company in his town of Annonay.
After the revelations, he initially answered that it was "A gift from a friend", but later he recognized that it was a gift from the company, and he promised to give back the lithographs. Additionally, the Saur employee who gave him the gift declared that he was not a friend of Dussopt, but that Dussopt was just a client.
Private life In March 2023, Dussopt outed himself as a gay man in an interview with French magazine Têtu.Tetu.com: Olivier Dussopt : "Nous aurons peut-être à réutiliser le 49.3", March 2023
References
External links Assemblée nationale profile