Jacques Myard (born 14 August 1947) is a French politician and former diplomat who represented the 5th constituency of the
Yvelines
Yvelines () is a department in the western part of the Île-de-France region in Northern France. In 2019, it had a population of 1,448,207.department in the
National Assembly
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from
1993
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to
2017
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Mayor
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of
Maisons-Laffitte
Maisons-Laffitte () is a commune in the Yvelines department in the northern Île-de-France region of France. It is a part of the affluent outer suburbs of northwestern Paris, from its centre. In 2018, it had a population of 23,611.
Maisons-Laf ...
since
1989
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.
Political career
In 1983, Myard entered the
municipal council
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of
Maisons-Laffitte
Maisons-Laffitte () is a commune in the Yvelines department in the northern Île-de-France region of France. It is a part of the affluent outer suburbs of northwestern Paris, from its centre. In 2018, it had a population of 23,611.
Maisons-Laf ...
,
Yvelines
Yvelines () is a department in the western part of the Île-de-France region in Northern France. In 2019, it had a population of 1,448,207.Rally for the Republic. In 1989, he was elected to the mayorship of Maisons-Laffitte. In the 1993 legislative election, he was elected to the
National Assembly
In politics, a national assembly is either a unicameral legislature, the lower house of a bicameral legislature, or both houses of a bicameral legislature together. In the English language it generally means "an assembly composed of the rep ...
Yvelines
Yvelines () is a department in the western part of the Île-de-France region in Northern France. In 2019, it had a population of 1,448,207.Cécile Duflot, wearing a floral dress, spoke about an architectural project. Myard told '' L'Express'' that the hoots were a way of "paying homage to this woman's beauty".
In 2015 he visited Damascus with three fellow politicians, where he met with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and other officials. Myard said he discounted the opinion that the unofficial visit was misguided, stating to be "told not to talk to the devil", but thinking "the devil says clever things". He further stated that although he was not Bashar al-Assad's "lawyer"—"I do not excuse the massacres", recognising that "the regime used chemical weapons"—he thought "with a diplomacy of morality, we no longer speak to anyone". One of the trip's partakers, Socialist
Gérard Bapt
Gérard Bapt (born 4 February 1946 in Saint-Étienne) is a French politician. He was the deputy for Haute-Garonne's 2nd constituency in the National Assembly of France. He was a member of the Socialist Party
Socialist Party is the name of ...
, who was the sole participant who refused to meet with Bashar al-Assad, stated the two others, Jean-Pierre Vial and François Zocchetto, were dissatisfied with Myard's attitude following their return to Paris.
On 5 April 2016, Myard announced a run for The Republicans presidential primary; he later failed to gather enough signatures to appear on the ballot.
He lost his seat to
Yaël Braun-Pivet
Yaël Braun-Pivet (; born 7 December 1970) is a French lawyer and politician who has served as President of the French National Assembly since 28 June 2022. She is the first woman to hold this position. A member of La République En Marche (LREM ...
Debout la France
Debout la France (, ; DLF) is a French political party founded by Nicolas Dupont-Aignan in 1999 under the name Debout la République (''Republic Arise'', DLR) as the "genuine Gaullist" branch of the Rally for the Republic (RPR). It was relaunche ...
before returning in 2020.
Political positions
Myard has voiced his opposition to
same-sex marriage
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Reconquête
Reconquête (; en, Reconquest), styled as Reconquête! (R!), is a nationalist political party in France founded in late 2021 by Éric Zemmour, who has since served as its leader. He was a far-right candidate in the 2022 presidential election, ...