Daniel Fasquelle (born 16 January 1963) is a French politician of The Republicans (LR) who has been serving as a member of the

National Assembly of France The National Assembly (french: link=no, italics=set, Assemblée nationale; ) is the lower house of the bicameral French Parliament under the Fifth Republic, the upper house being the Senate (). The National Assembly's legislators are known a ...

from 2007 to 2020, representing the

Pas-de-Calais Pas-de-Calais (, " strait of Calais"; pcd, Pas-Calés; also nl, Nauw van Kales) is a department in northern France named after the French designation of the Strait of Dover, which it borders. It has the most communes of all the departments ...

department.

Political career

In parliament, Fasquelle has been serving on the Committee on Economic Affairs since 2009. In the Republicans’ 2016 presidential primaries, Fasquelle endorsed

Nicolas Sarkozy Nicolas Paul Stéphane Sarközy de Nagy-Bocsa (; ; born 28 January 1955) is a French politician who served as President of France from 2007 to 2012. Born in Paris, he is of Hungarian, Greek Jewish, and French origin. Mayor of Neuilly-sur-Se ...

as the party's candidate for the office of

President of France The president of France, officially the president of the French Republic (french: Président de la République française), is the executive head of state of France, and the commander-in-chief of the French Armed Forces. As the presidency i ...

. On 26 August 2017, Fasquelle declared himself a candidate in the

leadership election A leadership election is a political contest held in various countries by which the members of a political party determine who will be the leader of their party. Generally, any political party can determine its own rules governing how and when a l ...

for the presidency of The Republicans, but was deemed to have secured an insufficient number of sponsorships on 26 October and therefore considered ineligible. Following Christian Jacob's election as LR chairman, Fasquelle announced his candidacy to succeed him as leader of the party's

parliamentary group A parliamentary group, parliamentary party, or parliamentary caucus is a group consisting of some members of the same political party or electoral fusion of parties in a legislative assembly such as a parliament or a city council. Parliamentar ...

. In an internal vote in November 2019, he eventually came in fourth out of six candidates; the position went to

Damien Abad Damien Abad (; born 5 April 1980) is a French politician who briefly served as Minister of Solidarity in the government of Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne in 2022. Abad previously served as Member of the National Assembly for Ain's 5th constitue ...

instead. At the Republicans’ national convention in December 2021, Fasquelle was part of the 11-member committee which oversaw the party’s selection of its candidate for the 2022 presidential elections.Ludovic Vigogne (12 October 2021)
Congrès LR: après le oui de Bertrand, les choses sérieuses commencent
''L'Opinion''.

References

External links

*
Daniel Fasquelle
at the National Assembly of France 1963 births Living people People from Saint-Omer Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas University alumni The Republicans (France) politicians Mayors of places in Hauts-de-France Deputies of the 13th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic Deputies of the 14th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic Deputies of the 15th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic Members of Parliament for Pas-de-Calais Members of the Regional Council of Hauts-de-France {{France-politician-UMP-stub