Marielle Gallo (born 19 May 1949) is a French politician and

Member of the European Parliament A Member of the European Parliament (MEP) is a person who has been elected to serve as a popular representative in the European Parliament. When the European Parliament (then known as the Common Assembly of the ECSC) first met in 1952, its ...

elected in the 2009 European election for the

Île-de-France , timezone1 = CET , utc_offset1 = +01:00 , timezone1_DST = CEST , utc_offset1_DST = +02:00 , blank_name_sec1 = Gross regional product , blank_info_sec1 = Ranked 1st , bla ...

constituency. She is the wife of famous French historian and member of the

Académie Française An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of secondary education, secondary or tertiary education, tertiary higher education, higher learning (and generally also research or honorary membershi ...

Max Gallo Max Gallo (; 7 January 1932 – 18 July 2017) was a French writer, historian and politician. He wrote over one hundred books. The son of Italian immigrants (his father was of Piedmontese descent and his mother was from the region of Parma), Gall ...

. She ran in a Parisian constituency in the 1993 election under the colours of the Citizens' Movement. In 2007, she joined the

Modern Left The Modern Left (french: La Gauche moderne, LGM), is a centrist political party in France founded in 2007. The party was founded following the nomination of the former Socialist Party (PS) Senator and Mayor of Mulhouse, Jean-Marie Bockel to the ...

, allied to President

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 ...

. She became the party's spokesperson.

European Parliament career

In the 2009 European elections, she was the fourth candidate on 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 ...

list in the Île-de-France region, and was elected to the

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, where she sits with the

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. In 2012, she emerged as a proponent of

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and online

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protection.''Rules also exist online. Copyright should be enforced in a proportionate and effective way because it is a source of innovation and job creation in the EU''
declared Gallo in her statement of 16.02.2012

References

External links

Institutional website (European parliament)

Official website
1949 births Living people People from Lons-le-Saunier Politicians from Bourgogne-Franche-Comté Modern Left politicians MEPs for Île-de-France 2009–2014 21st-century women MEPs for France Citizen and Republican Movement politicians Union for a Popular Movement MEPs Union of Democrats and Independents politicians Pantheon-Sorbonne University alumni {{France-politician-UDI-stub