Stéphane Artano

Who is Stéphane Artano?

Stéphane Artano is a French politician born on 9 March 1973 who became one of the most prominent public figures in Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon in the early twenty-first century. He entered territorial politics as a young man, working alongside deputy Gérard Grignon before taking over leadership of the local political movement Archipel Demain in 2005. In March 2006 he was elected president of the Territorial Council of Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, a position to which he was re-elected three further times, holding the role continuously until 2017. That year he was elected to the Senate of France, defeating incumbent senator Karine Claireaux, and took his seat on 2 October 2017 for a six-year term. In 2020 he was appointed president of the Senate's delegation to French overseas territories, succeeding Michel Magras, giving the small archipelago a national voice on overseas affairs. He chose to retire from political life at the end of his Senate mandate in September 2023, closing seventeen years of continuous public service to the territory.

Sources: Sénat, official biography, "M. Stéphane ARTANO, sénateur de Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon" · Outremers360, "Sénatoriales 2017 : Stéphane Artano devient le sénateur de Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon" · La 1ère Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, "Le sénateur Stéphane Artano va quitter la vie politique"