Christophe Plassard | |
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Member of the National Assembly for Charente-Maritime's 5th constituency | |
Assumed office June 22, 2022 | |
Preceded by | Didier Quentin |
Personal details | |
Born | La Garenne-Colombes,France | 19 November 1967
Political party | Union for a Popular Movement Horizons |
Christophe Plassard (born November 19,1967,in La Garenne-Colombes (Hauts-de-Seine)) is a French politician. He was elected Member of Parliament in 2022 as part of the Ensemble coalition. [1]
Christophe Plassard spent his childhood in the Paris suburbs. He then left the Paris region for Royan,where he settled. He runs a business specializing in corporate advertising. [1] For 15 years,he was a member of the Centre de jeunes Dirigeants du Poitou,of which he was also president. [2] He was then co-president of the Club d'Entreprises de Royan and vice-president of the Conseil Économique Social et Environnemental Régional Nouvelle-Aquitaine. [2]
Politically,he first joined the Union for a Popular Movement and became part of the Joppéist movement. He ran for mayor of Royan in 2008 and 2010 (partial municipal election),but failed both times. [1] [2] He joined the ranks of Emmanuel Macron's party and became an opposition municipal councillor in Royan in 2020. [1] [2] Initially a member of Franck Riester's Agir party,he later joined Édouard Philippe's Horizons party. [3] [4]
Designated by Horizons as part of the Ensemble coalition in the fifth constituency of Charente-Maritime for the 2022 legislative elections,with Vanessa Parent,councillor for Oléron, [1] as deputy. He came second in the first round,with 23.83%,behind candidate Séverine Werbrouck of the Rassemblement National. [1] Édouard Philippe supported him between the two rounds. [5] Plassard won the second round with 51.74% of the votes cast against the Rassemblement National candidate. [1] In this traditional right-wing bastion,he succeeds Didier Quentin (LR),who was eliminated in the first round. [1] [5]
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