Jean-Louis Borloo
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Jean-Louis Borloo is a French politician.
Born April 7th, 1951 in Paris, he was a successful French lawyer in the 1980s and later became president of the Valenciennes Football Club. In 1989, he was elected mayor of Valenciennes, and then turned himself toward politics.
He is currently the Minister of Employment, Social Cohesion and Housing in France, a member of the Union for a Popular Movement and, as of 2005, co-president of the Radical Party, alongside André Rossinot.
He recently introduced a five-year plan of social cohesion, which is centered around three axes: equal opportunity, housing and employment.
On July 21, 2005 he married news anchorwoman Béatrice Schönberg at Rueil-Malmaison, Hauts-de-Seine.