Guillaume Peltier

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Guillaume Peltier
Peltier in 2022
Member of the European Parliament
Assumed office
16 July 2024
Parliamentary groupECR
ConstituencyFrance
Member of the National Assembly
for Loir-et-Cher's 2nd constituency
In office
21 June 2017 – 20 June 2022
Preceded byPatrice Martin-Lalande
Succeeded byRoger Chudeau
Member of the
Regional Council of Centre-Val de Loire
In office
18 December 2015 – 2 July 2021
Mayor of Neung-sur-Beuvron
In office
30 March 2014 – 13 July 2017
Preceded byMichel Legourd
Succeeded byÉdith Bresson
Personal details
Born (1976-08-27) 27 August 1976 (age 48)
Paris, France
Political partyIDL (since 2024)
Other political
affiliations
FN (1996–1998)
MNR (1998–2000)
MPF (2001–2008)
UMP (2009–2015)
LR (2015–2022)
REC (2022–2024)
Children5
EducationLycée Buffon
Lycée Lakanal
Alma materPanthéon-Sorbonne University
OccupationTeacherPolitician

Guillaume Peltier (French pronunciation: [ɡijom pɛltje]; born 27 August 1976) is a French politician, former teacher and business leader, who was elected as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) in 2024. He represented the 2nd constituency of the Loir-et-Cher department in the National Assembly from 2017 to 2022. He has also served in the Departmental Council of Loir-et-Cher for the canton of Chambord since 2021. A former member of The Republicans, Peltier joined Reconquête to support Éric Zemmour's presidential candidacy in 2022.

Career

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Peltier is a former member of the National Front (FN) and former leader of its youth section. He led The Strong Right, a right-wing populist faction of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP), later The Republicans (LR), similar to The Popular Right faction. Peltier was a founder of the anti-abortion student group Young Christian Action (Jeunesse Action Chrétienté).[1]

In 2014, he was elected as mayor of Neung-sur-Beuvron and chairman of the Communauté de Communes de la Sologne des Etangs.

In 2017, he was elected to the National Assembly in the 2nd constituency of Loir-et-Cher.

On 9 January 2022, Peltier joined Reconquête (R!) to become party leader Éric Zemmour's deputy, in support of Zemmour's campaign in the 2022 presidential election. Zemmour has stated Peltier joining the party would allow it to heavily increase its access into local political structures.[2] Earlier, Peltier was spokesman (2016–2017) and vice president (2019–2021) of The Republicans (LR). In the 2022 French legislative election he lost his seat after being eliminated in the first round.[3]

References

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  1. ^ Forcari, Christophe. "Popu mais content". Libération.
  2. ^ "Présidentielle : le député LR Guillaume Peltier annonce rejoindre Eric Zemmour". Europe 1 (in French). 9 January 2022. Retrieved 2022-01-09.
  3. ^ "Législatives 2022 : la claque pour Guillaume Peltier, éliminé dès le premier tour". France 3 Centre-Val de Loire (in French). 12 June 2022. Retrieved 2022-06-13.
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