Serge Lepeltier (born 12 October 1953) is a French

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. He studied at HEC Paris. He was

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Bourges Bourges ( ; ; ''Borges'' in Berrichon) is a commune in central France on the river Yèvre (Cher), Yèvre. It is the capital of the Departments of France, department of Cher (department), Cher, and also was the capital city of the former provin ...

in 1995 and again in 2001. He was elected

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of the

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'' département'' on 27 September 1998. He won the municipal elections in

in 1995 over the communist candidate. He briefly acted as President of the Rally for the Republic in 2002 after

Michèle Alliot-Marie Michèle Yvette Marie-Thérèse Jeanne Honorine Alliot-Marie (; born 10 September 1946), known in France as MAM, is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from France. She is a member of the The Republicans (France), Rep ...

was nominated as Minister of Defence, and just before the Party was officially dissolved within the

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. On 31 March 2004, Jean-Pierre Raffarin's government announced a reshuffle because of the massive losses in the French regional elections. Serge Lepeltier became Minister of the Environment, while Roselyne Bachelot-Narquin was dismissed. In 2005 Serge Lepeltier joined the Radical Party.

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