Françoise Hostalier (born August 19, 1953 in

Beauvais Beauvais ( , ; pcd, Bieuvais) is a city and commune in northern France, and prefecture of the Oise département, in the Hauts-de-France region, north of Paris. The commune of Beauvais had a population of 56,020 , making it the most populous ...

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) was a member of the

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. She represented Nord's 15th constituency from 2002 to 2012. She campaigned for

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in the first round of the

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, she supported

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in the second round.

Biography

Françoise Hostalier holds a master's degree in mathematics and was a certified professor of mathematics from 1976 until 1993. After having been an Inspector of the Paris Academy from 1996 to January 2000, she was Inspector General of National Education ( IGEN) in the School and School Life group until 2016. She has been Honorary Inspector General of National Education since October 2016. She joined the

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in 1981 and became a deputy for the Nord department from 1993 to 1995. In 1995, she became Secretary of State responsible for School Education to the Minister of National Education in the first government of

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. She was a member of the national office of the PPDF (chaired by

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) and vice-president of

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(created and chaired by

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). After the dissolution of Liberal Democracy, she joined the Valois Radical Party, chaired by

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, and was a member of the National Office. She is a member of the Political Bureau of the

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and the National Secretary for Human Rights. Locally, she is vice-president of the UMP federation in the Nord department. In 2007, she again became a UMP deputy in the fifteenth constituency of the North with 51.87% of the vote against the socialist candidate Françoise Polnecq. A member of the National Defense and Armed Forces Commission, she is particularly interested in the issue of OPEX (external operations) and the situation in

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and

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. She was beaten by the PS candidate Jean-Pierre Allossery during the legislative elections of 2012. Member of the association of former deputies, she supported the candidacy of

for the presidency of the UMP during the congress of autumn 2012. During the 2017 presidential campaign, she was the coordinator of François Fillon's campaign in the North. After elimination at the end of the first round, she refused the "republican front" and declared to vote

in the second round against

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. She supported the candidacy of

Laurent Wauquiez Laurent Timothée Marie Wauquiez (; born 12 April 1975) 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 ...

and later Christian Jacob for the presidency of the Republicans. She was elected National Councilor of the Republicans and member of the Northern Federal Office.

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