A former local elected official who becomes prefect in the same department. This is the unusual journey of Alexandre Brugère, 37, who was appointed prefect of Hauts-de-Seine this Thursday noon, during the Council of Ministers, on the proposal of the Minister of the Interior.
Alexandre Brugère was appointed prefect two years ago to become chief of staff of the former Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin. He was made prefect last September. He has therefore never held the position of prefect but he knows the Hauts-de-Seine department well.
He has his roots in Asnières-sur-Seine, where he was deputy mayor Manuel Aeschlimann (LR), in charge of security, before resigning from the municipal council in 2019. A native of Yvelines and a graduate of two Masters, Alexandre Brugère cut his teeth as a political activist at the UMP where he worked alongside Gérald Darmanin, before joining the presidential camp in 2017.
It was also invested by LREM (former name of Renaissance) that he put together his own list in Asnières for the 2020 municipal elections. Defeated, he did not linger in the opposition and resigned again from the municipal council, while he was already a member of the cabinet of Gérald Darmanin, at the time Minister of Action and Public Accounts.
First in charge of state reform and foresight at the Ministry of the Budget, he followed the mayor of Tourcoing to Beauvau, where he found himself in charge of relations with police unions and set up the Beauvau of security, managing to get all the union organizations to sign a memorandum of understanding. His name was therefore mentioned recently among the contenders for the post of director of the national police.
This position escaped him this Thursday. Instead, he will succeed Laurent Hottiaux, who arrived in Hauts-de-Seine during the summer of 2020. During his four years spent in the department, the departing prefect will have, in particular, managed the end of the Covid pandemic and the Olympic and Paralympic Games in the department.
