Jacques Bigot (politician)

Jacques Bigot (born July 31, 1952) is a French politician, Mayor of Illkirch-Graffenstaden and President of the Urban Community of Strasbourg.

Member of the PS since the Pau Congress, he ran in the 1983 municipal elections on the Socialist list in Illkirch-Graffenstaden (Bas-Rhin), which was overwhelmingly defeated (26% of votes).

During the Catherine Trautmann-Roland Ries, he was vice-president of the Urban Community of Strasbourg and chaired the Departmental Fire and Rescue (SDIS67).

In a negative national and regional context for the PS, he was re-elected mayor in 2001 with a 26-vote majority over the right and announced that it would be his last term.

In addition to his work in the Senate, Bigot served as member of the French delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe from 2015 until 2017.