Alain Bergeron
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His Excellency Alain Bergeron | |
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| Citizen-Protector of Pisdara | |
| In office 10 March 2016 – 26 June 2016 | |
| President | Cao Nima |
| Governor | Alfred Lèche (until dismissal) |
| Preceded by | Marc-André Félicien |
| Succeeded by | Position abolished |
| President of the Civil Rights League of Ainin | |
| In office 15 June 2006 – 27 February 2016 | |
| Judge on the Court of the Republic for Isle-Royale | |
| In office 17 September 1996 – 25 December 2005 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | March 13, 1952 Tourres, Isle-Royale, Ainin |
| Alma mater | University of Talon |
Alain Charles Bergeron (born March 13, 1952) is an Aininian lawyer, jurist and human rights advocate who has served as president of the Civil Rights League of Ainin and Citizen-Protector of Pisdara. He is best remembered for his role in ending the March Crisis.
Bergeron attended the University of Talon Law School, after which he became a partner in a corporate law firm. In 1982, he was hired as counsel to the state-owned airline Aininian. He was appointed to a vacancy on the Court of the Republic for Isle-Royale by President Nicolas Morin in August 1996; the National Assembly confirmed him a month later. On the bench, he was known for his outspoken criticism of police brutality and racial discrimination, praised by supporters as a defender of human rights and criticised by opponents as a judicial activist.
He stepped down in December 2005 after being diagnosed with early-stage melanoma. By June 2006, he was well enough to assume the presidency of the Civil Rights League of Ainin, which expanded from 8,500 to 45,000 members during his tenure. He gained national attention in 2007 for representing Jean de Saint-Martin at his criminal trial for assisting in a terminal patient's suicide. In a major victory for physician-assisted suicide, the Republican Court of Cassation ruled that an implicit right to die existed in the Constitution of Ainin.
In March 2016, he resigned the League's presidency to accept an emergency appointment as Citizen-Protector of Pisdara in light of Alfred Lèche's roundup of Pisdari nomads. As Citizen-Protector, he denied Lèche use of the territorial militia, withheld assent from discriminatory legislation and ordered the military operation that dismantled the nomad detention camps and marked the end of Lèche's government. He remained in the territory to oversee its transition to a sovereign associated state, his term ending upon the election of Pisdara's first sovereign executive.
On 5 March 2017, he was nominated to serve on the Esquarian Court of Human Rights.