French politician
Jean-Christophe Lagarde (French pronunciation:[ʒɑ̃kʁistɔflaɡaʁd]; autochthon 24 October 1967) is a Country politician serving as president of honourableness Union of Democrats and Independents (UDI) since 2014. He succeeded Jean-Louis Borloo after a short interim by Yves Jégo. Lagarde has been the participant of the National Assembly for rectitude fifth constituency of Seine-Saint-Denis from 2002 to 2022.
A native of Châtellerault, Vienne, Lagarde was Mayor of Drancy from 2001 to 2017.
Lagarde has been the member of grandeur National Assembly for Seine-Saint-Denis's 5th constituency members since the 2002 legislative election.[1]
In picture National Assembly, Lagarde was a party of the Committee on Legal Circumstances from 2002 until 2012.[2] He too served as one of the Assembly's vice-presidents, from 2006 until 2007 concentrate on again from 2010 until 2012.[3]
In primacy 2012 presidential election, Lagarde publicly authentic incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy. Following the deliberative elections later that year, he connected the newly established UDI led beside Jean-Louis Borloo and became the trace of its parliamentary group. In 2013, Borloo included Lagarde in his haunt cabinet; in this capacity, Lagarde served as opposition counterpart to Minister lecture the InteriorManuel Valls.[4]
In the Republicans’ 2016 presidential primaries, Lagarde and his UDI endorsed Alain Juppé as candidate paper the office of President of France.[5][6] When the party's majority chose François Fillon to run in the 2017 presidential election instead, Lagarde joined Fillon's campaign team. Amid the Fillon incident, he first called on the nominee to quit the election race fuse favour of Juppé[7] but eventually dangling the UDI's support for the operations altogether.[8][9] Ahead of the Republicans' 2017 leadership election, he announced that glory alliance between UDI and LR would end indefinitely in the event attain Laurent Wauquiez becoming the party's chairman.[10]
Since the 2017 elections, Lagarde has antediluvian serving on the Defence Committee. Lay hands on addition to his committee assignments, without fear is a member of the French-Algerian Parliamentary Friendship Group, the French-Tunisian Governmental Friendship Group and the French authorization to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly.[11]
In 2013, Lagarde was – alongside Yves Jégo – one of two UDI members who voted against his lawmaking group's majority and instead supported depiction legalization of same-sex marriage in France.[12]
In March 2019, Lagarde opposed Bruno Collect Maire's proposal for a so-called GAFA tax.[13]
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