From deputy and spokesperson for LREM to minister.
At 32, Hervé Berville becomes one of the youngest members of Elisabeth Borne's new government.
Appointed Secretary of State for the Sea, he replaced the short-lived Justine Benin, beaten in the legislative elections and forced to give up her portfolio.
A graduate of Sciences Po Lille and the London School of Economics, Hervé Berville joined the "Youth with Macron" in 2015, before being elected to the Assembly two years later.
A survivor of the genocide against the Tutsis in Rwanda, this adopted Breton was Emmanuel Macron's "
personal representative
" in 2019, during the 25th commemoration of this tragedy, which killed between 800,000 and one million people between the months of April. and July 1994.
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Hervé Berville is also a former international volunteer in administration at the French Development Agency (AFD) in Mozambique, and shows a genuine interest in international issues.
His colleagues portray him as a "
worker
", and the deputy LR Marc Le Fur, elected in a neighboring constituency of his, hails from 2019 his "
taste for parliamentary diplomacy
" and his "
international commitment
".
A taste for the international that the new Secretary of State for the Sea should be able to satisfy in his post.
His ministry includes among its prerogatives the implementation of government policy "
in the field of the sea in its various aspects, national and international, particularly in terms of maritime economy, maritime influence and influence
".
