Geoffroy Didier | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Member of the European Parliament for France | |
| Assumed office 1 December 2017 [1] [2] | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 12 April 1976 Boulogne-Billancourt, France |
| Political party | The Republicans |
| Alma mater | Sciences Po Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas University Columbia University |
| Occupation | Lawyer |
Geoffroy Didier (born 12 April 1976) is a French lawyer and politician of the Republicans who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament since 2017. [3]
Didier graduated from Sciences Po in 1998 and obtained a master's degree in business law from the University of Paris II Panthéon-Assas in 1999. He also holds a degree from ESSEC Business School (2004).[ citation needed ]
In 2008, Didier worked as an advisor to Minister of Immigration, Integration, National Identity and Cooperative Development Brice Hortefeux in the government of Prime Minister François Fillon. [4]
During the campaign for the 2012 presidential election, Didier served as deputy spokesman for candidate Nicolas Sarkozy, along with Franck Riester, Guillaume Peltier, Valérie Debord and Salima Saa. After the elections, he joined forces with Guillaume Peltier in founded The Strong Right, a conservative faction within the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP). [5] He also became the party's deputy secretary general, under the leadership of chairman Jean-François Copé. [6] In addition, he became a member of the Friends of Nicolas Sarkozy group. [7]
Considered close to Valérie Pécresse, Didier played a prominent role in many of her political campaigns, including when she became the head of the Paris region in the 2015 elections. [8]
In March 2016, Didier announced his candidacy for the Republicans’ primaries ahead of the 2017 French presidential election, [9] but failed to secure a sufficient number of votes. He later endorsed Alain Juppé [10] as the party's candidate for the office of President of France before supporting the campaign of François Fillon.
In the party's 2017 leadership election, Didier supported Laurent Wauquiez. [11]
Didier unsuccessfully ran as a candidate for the 2014 European elections. [12] However, when Constance Le Grip stood down as a Member of the Parliament to move to the National Assembly, Didier took her seat in June 2017. He has since been serving on the Committee on Legal Affairs, where he became the parliament's rapporteur on the 2021 Digital Services Act. [13] In 2020, he also joined the Special Committee on Artificial Intelligence in a Digital Age. [14]
In addition to his committee assignments, Didier is a member of the delegation for relations with the United States.[ citation needed ]
When Wauquiez resigned from the Republicans’ leadership in 2019, Didier was considered by news media as a potential successor but soon announced that he would not be putting himself forward for the position; instead, he endorsed Christian Jacob. [15]
In early 2020, Didier called on High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell in a letter to suspend the EU-Japan Strategic Partnership Agreement and demand action against cases of so-called parental child abduction affecting Europeans living in Japan. [16]
The Union for a Popular Movement was a centre-right political party in France that was one of the two major contemporary political parties in France along with the centre-left Socialist Party (PS). The UMP was formed in 2002 as a merger of several centre-right parties under the leadership of President Jacques Chirac. In May 2015, the party was renamed and succeeded by The Republicans.
Christian Jacob is a French politician who has been the president of the Republicans party since 2019. Over the course of his career, he held several cabinet positions, including as the Minister of French Civil Service in Jacques Chirac's second term as President of France.
Christian Paul Gilbert Estrosi is a French sportsman and politician who has served as Mayor of Nice since 2017, previously holding the office from 2008 to 2016. A former professional motorcyclist, he served as a government minister under Presidents Jacques Chirac and Nicolas Sarkozy. Estrosi also served as President of the Regional Council of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur from 2015 to 2017 and First Deputy Mayor of Nice from 2016 until 2017. He is a former member of The Republicans, which he left in 2021 to join Horizons.
François Charles Armand Fillon is a retired French politician who served as Prime Minister of France from 2007 to 2012 under President Nicolas Sarkozy. He was the nominee of the Republicans, the country's largest centre-right political party, for the 2017 presidential election.
Nathalie Geneviève Marie Kosciusko-Morizet, often referred to by her initials NKM, is an engineer, public figure and advocate, having previously had a political career.
Éric Woerth is a French politician of The Republicans (LR).
Valérie Pécresse is a French politician serving as President of the Regional Council of Île-de-France since 2015. A member of The Republicans (LR), she was the Member of the National Assembly for the 2nd constituency of Yvelines from 2002 to 2007 and again from 2012 to 2016, Minister of Higher Education and Research from 2007 to 2011 and Minister of Budget and Government Spokeswoman from 2011 to 2012.
Luc-Marie Chatel is a French politician of the Republicans (LR) who served as Minister of National Education in the government of Prime Minister François Fillon from June 2009 to May 2012. In 2014, he served as the acting chair of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP).
Laurent Timothée Marie Wauquiez is a French politician who has presided over the Regional Council of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes since 2016. He is a member of The Republicans (LR), which he led from 2017 to 2019 following the resignation of Nicolas Sarkozy.
Nadine Morano is a French politician of the Republicans who has been serving as Member of the European Parliament since 2014. She previously was a member of the National Assembly and a minister.
Franck Riester is a French politician who has been serving as Minister Delegate for Foreign Trade and Economic Attractiveness in the government of Prime Minister Jean Castex since 2020. A former member of The Republicans, he founded and currently leads the centre-right Agir party.
Jean-Christophe Lagarde is a French politician serving as president of the Union of Democrats and Independents (UDI) since 2014. He succeeded Jean-Louis Borloo after a short interim by Yves Jégo. Lagarde has been the member of the National Assembly for the fifth constituency of Seine-Saint-Denis since 2002.
Michèle Tabarot is a French politician of the Republicans who currently serves as a member of the National Assembly of France. She represents the Alpes-Maritimes 9th constituency.
Éric Ciotti is a French politician who has represented the 1st constituency of Alpes-Maritimes in the National Assembly since 2007. A member of The Republicans (LR), he sought the party's nomination for the 2022 presidential election at its 2021 congress; he placed first in the first round of voting but was defeated by Valérie Pécresse in the second round. Ciotti previously briefly served as First Deputy Mayor of Nice under Mayor Christian Estrosi in 2008, before he assumed the presidency of the Departmental Council of Alpes-Maritimes from 2008 to 2017.
Nora Berra is a French physician and politician who served as Secretary of State for Seniors (2009-2010) and as Secretary of State for Health (2010-2012) in the government of Prime Minister François Fillon from 14 November 2010 to 10 May 2012. From 2015 until 2017, she was a member of the Republicans.
The 2017 French presidential election was held on 23 April and 7 May 2017. As no candidate won a majority in the first round, a runoff was held between the top two candidates, Emmanuel Macron of En Marche! (EM) and Marine Le Pen of the National Front (FN), which Macron won by a decisive margin. The presidential election was followed by a legislative election to elect members of the National Assembly on 11 and 18 June. Incumbent president François Hollande of the Socialist Party (PS) was eligible to run for a second term, but declared on 1 December 2016 that he would not seek reelection in light of low approval ratings, making him the first incumbent head of state of the Fifth Republic not to seek reelection.
The 2012 leadership election of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP), a political party in France was held on 18 November 2012. It renewed the leadership structures of the UMP following Nicolas Sarkozy's defeat in the 2012 presidential election and the party's defeat in the subsequent legislative election. The disputed results led to the first open crisis in the UMP since its creation in 2002.
The Republicans is a centre-right liberal-conservative political party in France, largely inspired by the Gaullist tradition. It holds pro-European views.
The Republicans held a presidential primary election, officially called the open primary of the right and centre, to select a candidate for the 2017 presidential election. It took place on 20 November 2016, with a runoff on 27 November since no candidate obtained at least 50% of the vote in the first round. It was the first time an open primary had been held for The Republicans or its predecessor parties.
A leadership election for the presidency of The Republicans (LR) was held on 10 December 2017, the first since the refoundation of the party in 2015, before which it was known as the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP), and seventh overall including the UMP congresses.
  Current Members of the European Parliament from France (2019–2024) | |
|---|---|
|
| List of members of European People's Party group (2019–2024) | |
|---|---|
| Austria | |
| Belgium | |
| Bulgaria | |
| Croatia | |
| Cyprus | |
| Czech Republic | |
| Denmark | |
| Estonia | |
| Finland | |
| France | |
| Germany | |
| Greece | |
| Hungary | |
| Ireland | |
| Italy | |
| Latvia | |
| Lithuania | |
| Luxembourg | |
| Malta | |
| Netherlands | |
| Poland | |
| Portugal | |
| Romania | |
| Slovakia | |
| Slovenia | |
| Spain | |
| Sweden | |
| General | |
|---|---|
| National libraries | |
