Alain Le Vern is a French

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 Socialist

Socialist Party (France)

The Socialist Party is a social-democratic political party in France and the largest party of the French centre-left. It is one of the two major contemporary political parties in France, along with the center-right Union for a Popular Movement...

 Senator and is president of the Haute-Normandie

Haute-Normandie

Upper Normandy is one of the 27 regions of France. It was created in 1984 from two départements: Seine-Maritime and Eure, when Normandy was divided into Lower Normandy and Upper Normandy. This division continues to provoke controversy, and some continue to call for reuniting the two regions...

 region. He is also the inaugural President of the transnational Arc Manche

Arc Manche

Arc Manche is a cooperation network aiming to gather territories bordering the Channel in France and in Great Britain, in order to advocate the shared interests of this area and to promote Franco-British cooperation...

 Assembly.

He was elected president of Haute-Normandie in 1998, and Senator representing the Seine-Maritime

Seine-Maritime

Seine-Maritime is a French department in the Haute-Normandie region in northern France. It is situated on the northern coast of France, at the mouth of the Seine, and includes the cities of Rouen and Le Havre...

department in 2007. He became the first President of the Arc Manche Assembly, elected in 2005.

External links

• Channel-Arc-Manche official website