Pierre Meurin (born 30 November 1989) is a French politician from

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(RN) who has represented Gard's 4th constituency in the National Assembly since

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Professional and personal life

Maurin was born in Paris and is the son of a construction worker who ran a window installation firm. He has two brothers and a sister. He graduated with a Master's degree in law and during his studies was active in the Union Nationale Inter-universitaire union. He served on the board of directors of the

University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (, ''UVSQ'') is a French public university created in 1991, located in the department of Yvelines and, since 2002, in Hauts-de-Seine. It is a constituent university of the federal Paris-Saclay U ...

until 2012 and later worked at the

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until 2021. He is married to a speech therapist with whom he has two children. Maurin has described himself as a practicing Catholic.

Political career

He became a member of the Movement for France (MPF) in 2008 and chaired the MPF's youth wing ''Jeunes pour la France'' From 2014 to 2018. Maurin was an early supporter of author and pundit

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and caused some controversy when he booed an opponent of Zemmour's from the audience during a televised debate. In 2020, he began organising Zemmour's pre-presidential campaign ahead of the

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and was a founding member of his Reconquête party. However, before the election he left the post and announced his support for

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in 2020, arguing that Le Pen represented the best chance of defeating the Macron administration. During the

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, he stood as the National Rally candidate in Gard's 4th constituency and defeated

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affiliated candidate Arnaud Bord.

Professional and personal life

Political career

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