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Natacha Bouchart | |
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Mayor of Calais | |
Assumed office 22 March 2008 | |
Preceded by | Jacky Hénin |
Member of the Regional Council of Hauts-de-France | |
Assumed office 1 January 2016 | |
President | Xavier Bertrand |
Member of the French Senate for Pas-de-Calais | |
In office 1 October 2011 –12 January 2016 | |
Succeeded by | Jean-François Rapin |
Personal details | |
Born | Natacha Keuroglanian 29 May 1963 Lens,France |
Political party | Miscellaneous right (since 2022) The Republicans (2015-2022) |
Natacha Bouchart (born 29 May 1963) is a French politician of the Republicans (LR) and formerly Union for a Popular Movement (UMP). [1]
Bouchart was born at Lens. She has served as Mayor of Calais since 2008 and was elected to represent Pas-de-Calais in the French Senate in 2011. [2]
Ahead of the Republicans' 2016 presidential primary,Bouchart endorsed Nicolas Sarkozy as the party's candidate for the 2017 French presidential election. [3]
Ahead of the 2022 presidential elections,Bouchart publicly declared her support for incumbent Emmanuel Macron and criticized the Republicans’candidate Valérie Pécresse. [4] [5]
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