Bruno Le Roux (; born 2 May 1965) was the

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of France from 6 December 2016 to 21 March 2017. He was a member of the National Assembly of France where he represented the

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department and was the leader of the Socialist, Ecologist & Republican Group. He led the

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in the

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from 2012 until 2016. On 6 December 2016 he was named Minister of the Interior in the Government of

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. In 2015, news media reported that Le Roux was included in a Russian blacklist of prominent people from the

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who are not allowed to enter the country. On 21 March 2017, Le Roux was forced to resign from the government when it was revealed that he employed his two daughters, aged just 15 and 16, as parliamentary assistants – using public funds – while he served as a deputy in the

. He was succeeded by

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, the Minister of State for Foreign Trade.

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