Jean-Pierre Sueur (born 28 February 1947) is a French politician of the Socialist Party (PS) who has been serving as a member of the Senate of France since 2001, representing the Loiret department.

You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in French. (December 2008) Click [show] for important translation instructions. View a machine-translated version of the French article. Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing French Wikipedia article at [[:fr:Jean-Pierre Sueur]]; see its history for attribution. You may also add the template {{Translated|fr|Jean-Pierre Sueur}} to the talk page. For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.

Quick Facts Member of the French Senate for Loiret, Mayor of Orléans ...

Jean-Pierre Sueur
Jean-Pierre Sueur in 2007
Member of the French Senate for Loiret
In office 1 October 2001 – 2 October 2023
Mayor of Orléans
In office 24 March 1989 – 25 March 2001
Preceded by	Jean-Louis Bernard
Succeeded by	Serge Grouard
Secretary of State for Territorial collectivity
In office 15 May 1991 – 29 March 1993
President	François Mitterrand
Prime Minister	Édith Cresson Pierre Bérégovoy
Preceded by	Jean-Michel Baylet
Succeeded by	Daniel Hoeffel
Personal details
Born	(1947-02-28) 28 February 1947 (age 77) Boulogne-sur-Mer, France
Political party	Socialist Party
Children	Catherine Sueur
Alma mater	ENS Saint-Cloud
Profession	Linguist

Close

In the Socialist Party's 2011 primaries, Sueur endorsed Martine Aubry as the party's candidate for the 2012 presidential election.^[1]