Gilles Lurton (born on 6 July 1963) is a French politician. He has represented

Ille-et-Vilaine's 7th constituency The 7th constituency of Ille-et-Vilaine is a French legislative constituency in the Ille-et-Vilaine ''département''. Like the other 576 French constituencies, it elects one MP using the two-round system, with a run-off if no candidate receives ...

since 2012, first as a member of the

Union for a Popular Movement The Union for a Popular Movement (french: link=no, Union pour un mouvement populaire, ; UMP, ) 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 Social ...

and then the Republicans.

Biography

His first political office came when he was elected to the municipal council of

Saint-Malo Saint-Malo (, , ; Gallo: ; ) is a historic French port in Ille-et-Vilaine, Brittany, on the English Channel coast. The walled city had a long history of piracy, earning much wealth from local extortion and overseas adventures. In 1944, the Alli ...

in 1995. Following the 2008 elections, he was appointed deputy mayor of

(in charge of housing and neighborhoods). He became general councilor of

Ille-et-Vilaine Ille-et-Vilaine (; br, Il-ha-Gwilen) is a department of France, located in the region of Brittany in the northwest of the country. It is named after the two rivers of the Ille and the Vilaine. It had a population of 1,079,498 in 2019.

in 2011 taking the canton of Saint-Malo-Sud, succeeding Jacky Le Menn who did not stand for re-election. In

2012 File:2012 Events Collage V3.png, From left, clockwise: The passenger cruise ship Costa Concordia lies capsized after the Costa Concordia disaster; Damage to Casino Pier in Seaside Heights, New Jersey as a result of Hurricane Sandy; People gather ...

, he stood for

. He came second in the first round of the election with 21% of the vote, then in the second round, defeated the socialist Isabelle Thomas with 51% of the vote. He sits on the Social Affairs Committee of the National Assembly. Due to the rule of non-cumulation of mandates, he gave up his mandate as general councilor of Ille-et-Vilaine. His substitute Christine Lequertier succeeded him in July 2012. The list led by René Couanau placing only 3rd in the second round of the municipal elections of March 2014, he then lost his post as deputy mayor and sat as a simple municipal councilor. He supported

Bruno Le Maire Bruno Le Maire (; born 15 April 1969) is a French politician and former diplomat who has served as Minister of the Economy and Finance since 2017 under President Emmanuel Macron. A former member of The Republicans (LR), which he left in 2017 to ...

in the 2016 presidential primary for the Republicans. In September 2016, he was appointed, with several others, member of the political committee of the campaign.

References

External links

His page on the site of the National Assembly
{{DEFAULTSORT:Lurton, Gilles Deputies of the 14th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic Deputies of the 15th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic Living people 1963 births People from Ille-et-Vilaine Mayors of places in Brittany The Republicans (France) politicians Members of Parliament for Ille-et-Vilaine