Alain Chatillon (born 15 March 1943) is a member of the

Senate of France The Senate (french: Sénat, ) is the upper house of the French Parliament, with the lower house being the National Assembly, the two houses constituting the legislature of France. The French Senate is made up of 348 senators (''sénateurs'' a ...

. He represents the

Haute-Garonne Haute-Garonne (; oc, Nauta Garona, ; en, Upper Garonne) is a department in the Occitanie region of Southwestern France. Named after the river Garonne, which flows through the department. Its prefecture and main city is Toulouse, the country' ...

department and is a member of the Radical Party.

Biography

After acquiring the Gerblé food group in 1972, Alain Chatillon founded the Diététique et Santé group in Revel, which later became Nutrition et Santé, France's leading manufacturer of dietary and organic foods. He co-founded and chaired the Agri Sud-Ouest competitiveness cluster from 2007 to 2014. Mayor of Revel since 1989 and regional councillor for the Midi-Pyrénées region, he was elected to the French Senate in the 2008 senatorial elections. He was re-elected mayor in the first round, with 68.82% of the vote in the 2008 elections and 75% in 2014. He supported Alain Juppé in the 2016 Republican presidential primary. Ludovic Vigogne
« Primaire à droite: la liste des premiers soutiens parlementaires »
lopinion.fr, 20 avril 2016. A member of the UMP then LR group since 2008, in 2020 he joined Les Républicains and became a member of the REP group.

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1943 births Living people People from Revel, Haute-Garonne The Republicans (France) politicians Union for a Popular Movement politicians Union of Democrats and Independents politicians Radical Party (France) politicians Radical Movement politicians French senators of the Fifth Republic Senators of Haute-Garonne Mayors of places in Occitania (administrative region) {{France-politician-UDI-stub