Gabriel Serville

Gabriel Serville
President of the Assembly of French Guiana
Incumbent
Assumed office 2 July 2021
Preceded by	Rodolphe Alexandre
Member of French National Assembly
In office 20 June 2012 – 1 August 2021
Mayor of Matoury
In office 2014–2017
Personal details
Born	(1959-09-27) 27 September 1959 (age 65) Cayenne, French Guiana, France
Political party	Guianese Socialist Party (since 2017) Péyi Guyane (since 2018)

Gabriel Serville (born 27 September 1959) is a French-Guianese politician who was elected to the French National Assembly on 16 June 2012 representing French Guiana's 1st constituency.[1] On 2 July 2021, he was elected President of the Assembly of French Guiana.

Biography

Serville was born 27 September 1959 in Cayenne.[2] His father was from Saint Lucia.[3] Professionally, he was a mathematics professor.[2]

Political career

Serville served as mayor of Matoury from 2014[4] until 2017.[3] He was a member of the Guianese Socialist Party from 2008 until 30 September 2017.[5] In 2017, he founded Péyi Guyane.[6]

Serville was first elected to the Member of French National Assembly on 20 June 2012.[2] Serville held a position in the Bureau of the National Assembly of the 15th legislature of the French Fifth Republic as a secretary.^[citation needed] For the 2021 regional elections, Péyi Guyane formed a union with La France Insoumise and Génération.s. Serville represented the union in the elections.[7] On 2 July 2021, he was elected President of the French Guianese Assembly. He resigned his seat in the National Assembly on 1 August 2021.[3]

Other activities

• UNITE – Parliamentary Network to End HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis and Other Infectious Diseases, Member (since 2019)[8]

References

1. (in French) Chantal Berthelot et Gabriel Serville élus deputés de Guyane, France-Antilles, June 16, 2012
2. "M. Gabriel Serville". French National Assembly (in French). Retrieved 8 December 2021.
3. "Qui est Gabriel Serville, le nouveau président de la Collectivité territoriale de Guyane ?". France TV Info (in French). Retrieved 8 December 2021.
4. (in French) Le bureau du conseil municipal de Matoury est en place, guyane.la1ere.fr, April 24, 2014
5. "Gabriel Serville démissione du PSG". France Guyane (in French). Retrieved 8 December 2021.
6. "Municipales 2020 : le mouvement Péyi Guyane pose ses jalons". France TV Info (in French). Retrieved 8 December 2021.
7. "Territoriales 2021 : En Guyane, les listes de Gabriel Serville, Jean-Paul Ferreira et Jessi Américain unies pour battre Rodolphe Alexandre". Outre Mers 360 (in French). Retrieved 8 December 2021.
8. "Members – Western & Central Europe". Archived from the original on 2020-10-01. Retrieved 2020-08-12.

External links

• (in French) Biography on the French National Assembly website