Jean-Baptiste Gastinne

Jean-Baptiste Gastinne
Gastinne in Le Havre, 2021
Vice-president of the Regional Council of Normandy in charge of Transport, Ports and Seine Valley
Incumbent
Assumed office
4 January 2016
PresidentHervé Morin
Regional Councilor for Upper Normandy (later Normandy)
Incumbent
Assumed office
22 March 2010
President
President of Le Havre Seine Métropole
In office
5 April 2019 – 15 July 2020
Preceded byLuc Lemonnier
Succeeded byÉdouard Philippe
Mayor of Le Havre
In office
30 March 2019 – 5 July 2020
Preceded byLuc Lemonnier
Succeeded byÉdouard Philippe
Personal details
Born (1967-06-02) June 2, 1967 (age 57)
Paris, France
Political partyThe Republicans (since 2015)
Other political
affiliations		UMP (2002-2015)
FRS-PCD (2002-2016)

Jean-Baptiste Gastinne (born June 2, 1967 in Paris)[1] is a French teacher and politician. He was the mayor of Le Havre from 2019 to 2020.

Biography

Professional career

Holder of an agrégation in history, he taught at Jacques-Monod college in Le Havre from 1993 to 1994 then at Raoul-Dufy college between 1994 and 2010. He has been teaching since 2010 at François-I high school in Le Havre.[2] In 2019, he interrupted his professional activity after his election as mayor of Le Havre.

In 2008, he received a doctorate in history from the University of Paris IV Sorbonne.[3]

Political journey

He was a member of the UMP and then of the Republicans since 2002. Between 2002 and 2016, he was a member of the Forum of Social Republicans, which was renamed to Christian Democratic Party.[4]

In 2008, he was elected to the Havre city council on the list led by Antoine Rufenacht.[5] In 2010, he was elected regional councilor for the Upper Normandy region on Bruno Le Maire's list.[5][6]

In 2011, he became deputy mayor of Le Havre, Édouard Philippe, in charge of town planning and the environment.[7] In 2014, he was elected vice-president of the agglomeration community of Le Havre and then of the Le Havre Seine Métropole urban community[8] in charge of economic development and tourism.[9]

During the 2015 regional elections in Normandy, he was elected on the list of Hervé Morin[10] who appointed him the 6th vice-president of the Region in charge of transport, ports and the Seine Valley.[11]

On March 30, 2019, after the resignation of the mayor of Le Havre Luc Lemonnier, replacing Édouard Philippe who had become Prime Minister, he was elected mayor in the municipal council.[12][13]

On April 4, 2019, he was elected president of the Le Havre Seine Métropole urban community.[14]

Following the 2020 municipal elections and the return of Édouard Philippe to Le Havre, Jean-Baptiste Gastinne left him his post of mayor and became his first deputy.

Books

Jean-Baptiste Gastinne is co-author and author of two books on the history of Le Havre:

  • Gastinne, Jean-Baptiste (2021). Le Havre: à vivre et à aimer (in French). Éditions l'Écho des vagues. ISBN 978-2-918616-54-2.[15][16]
  • de Marceilles, Guillaume; Rouet, Dominique (2012). La première histoire du Havre: les Mémoires de Guillaume de Marceilles (in French). Éditions l'Écho des vagues. ISBN 978-2-918616-15-3.
  • Gastinne, Jean-Baptiste (2016-03-22). Le Havre 1517-1789: Histoire d'une identité urbaine (in French). Presses universitaires de Rouen et du Havre. ISBN 979-10-240-0566-9.

References

  1. ^ Ouest, Tendance. "Le-Havre. Mairie du Havre : qui est Jean-Baptiste Gastinne ?". tendanceouest.com (in French). Retrieved 2021-08-14.
  2. ^ "Jean-Baptiste GASTINNE, Maire du Havre". Site officiel de la Ville du Havre – Le Havre (in French). 2016-08-26. Archived from the original on 2019-03-31. Retrieved 2021-08-14.
  3. ^ "Le Havre 1517-1789 : rencontre avec Jean-Baptiste Gastinne". Lire au Havre. Retrieved 2021-08-14.
  4. ^ BURDIN, Emmanuel. "Rencontre avec le nouveau maire, Jean-Baptiste Gastinne : " Mon parti, c'est Le Havre "". Paris-Normandie (in French). Retrieved 2021-08-14.
  5. ^ a b "Démission du maire du Havre. Qui est Jean-Baptiste Gastinne, qui assure l'intérim?". Ouest-France (in French). 2019-03-22.
  6. ^ "Jean-Baptiste Gastinne | HAROPA PORT". www.haropaports.com. Archived from the original on 2021-08-14. Retrieved 2021-08-14.
  7. ^ "Jean-Baptiste GASTINNE". Site officiel de la Ville du Havre – Le Havre (in French). 2020-07-05. Retrieved 2021-08-14.
  8. ^ "Edouard Philippe élu Président de la Communauté urbaine Le Havre Seine Métropole". Le Havre Seine Métropole (in French). Retrieved 2021-08-14.
  9. ^ "Le Havre Seine Métropole | RTES". www.rtes.fr. Retrieved 2021-08-14.
  10. ^ "Le président de la région Normandie, Hervé Morin, candidat à sa réélection". France Bleu (in French). 2021-05-05. Retrieved 2021-08-14.
  11. ^ "Jean-Baptiste Gastinne | Région Normandie". www.normandie.fr (in French). Retrieved 2021-08-14.
  12. ^ "Jean-Baptiste Gastinne (LR) élu maire du Havre". Public Senat (in French). 2019-03-30. Retrieved 2021-08-14.
  13. ^ "INVITE : Jean-Baptiste Gastinne, le nouveau maire du Havre, veut faire de l'éducation populaire sa priorité" (in French). France Bleu. 2019-04-01. Retrieved 2021-08-14.
  14. ^ "Le nouveau maire du Havre Jean-Baptiste Gastinne, élu président de la Métropole". actu.fr (in French). Retrieved 2021-08-14.
  15. ^ "L'élu Jean-Baptiste Gastinne confie son attachement au Havre dans un nouveau livre". actu.fr (in French). Retrieved 2022-04-10.
  16. ^ ""Le Havre, A vivre et à aimer" clame dans un livre Jean-Baptiste Gastinne". France Bleu (in French). 2022-01-07. Retrieved 2022-04-10.