Natacha Bouchart (born 29 May 1963) is a French
politician
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of the
Republicans (LR) and formerly
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 ...
(UMP).
Life and career
Bouchart was born at
Lens
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. She has served as
Mayor
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of
Calais
Calais ( , , traditionally , ) is a port city in the Pas-de-Calais department, of which it is a subprefecture. Although Calais is by far the largest city in Pas-de-Calais, the department's prefecture is its third-largest city of Arras. Th ...
since 2008 and was elected to represent Pas-de-Calais in the
French Senate
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in 2011.
Ahead of the Republicans'
2016 presidential primary, Bouchart 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
2017 French presidential election
The 2017 French presidential election was held on 23 April and 7 May 2017. As no candidate won a majority in the first round, a runoff was held between the top two candidates, Emmanuel Macron of En Marche! (EM) and Marine Le Pen of the Nationa ...
.
Ahead of the
2022 presidential elections, Bouchart publicly declared her support for incumbent
Emmanuel Macron
Emmanuel Macron (; born 21 December 1977) is a French politician who has served as President of France since 2017. ''Ex officio'', he is also one of the two Co-Princes of Andorra. Prior to his presidency, Macron served as Minister of Econ ...
and criticized the Republicans’ candidate
Valérie Pécresse
Valérie Pécresse (; born Roux, 14 July 1967) is a French politician who has served as President of the Regional Council of Île-de-France since 2015. A member of The Republicans (LR), she previously served as Minister of Higher Education and ...
.
Defections sap conservative contender Pécresse in French presidential race
''France 24
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Based in the Paris suburb of Issy-les-M ...
'', 11 February 2022.
References
External links
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Mairie-calais.fr
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1963 births
Living people
Union for a Popular Movement politicians
The Republicans (France) politicians
Politicians from Hauts-de-France
French Senators of the Fifth Republic
People from Calais
French people of Armenian descent
Mayors of places in Hauts-de-France
Women mayors of places in France
Calais migrant crisis (1999–present)
20th-century French women politicians
21st-century French women politicians
Women members of the Senate (France)
Senators of Pas-de-Calais