High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Patrick Le Hyaric (born February 4, 1957 in Orléans, Loiret) is a French journalist, politician and Member of the European Parliament elected in the 2009 European election for the Île-de-France constituency. He is the director of the newspaper L'Humanité since 2000, when he replaced Pierre Zarka.Le Hyaric is a member of the executive of the French Communist Party and also the federal secretary of the Communist federation in the Morbihan. In 2004, he led the PCF list in the West constituency. The PCF list obtained 4.1% in the constituency but no MEPs were elected.