Alain Marleix
Alain Marleix, born January 2, 1946 in Paris, is a French politician and a member of the National Assembly of France, first for the Rassemblement pour la République (RPR), later called the Union pour un Mouvement Populaire (UMP) for the second district of Cantal, in south-central France.
Politcal Career
Alain Marleix began his political career as a vice-representative for Georges Pompidou in the Assembléee Nationale, who was then representative for Saint-Flour in the Cantal. Alain Marleix was initially close to Charles Pasqua. During the 1993 presidential election, he supported Edouard Balladur against Jacques Chirac. Since then, he started to support Nicolas Sarkozy. Alain Marleix was also the mayor of Massiac from 1995 until 2003. Furthermore, he was the Secretary of State for Veterans in the government of François Fillon from June 2007 to March 2008. From 2008 to 2010 he was in charge of the redefinition of the Boundary Delimitation for the elections to the Assemblée Nationale.
Alain Marleix was elected in the first round March 21, 1993, as a deputy for the RPR for the second district of Cantal, achieving the highest score of the legislative elections. He was reelected May 25, 1997, and served as a permanent judge of the High Court of Justice. Reelected after the dissolution of the National Assembly in 1997 and 16 June 2002, replacing Jean-Yves Bony,mayor of Ally, he co-wrote in 2004, a bill to reinstate the death penalty for the perpetrators of terrorist acts. However, Marleix in 2007 he finally voted for the prohibition of death penalty within the Constitution. At the request of Jacques Chirac, he led several informal missions, especially the ones dealing with the establishment of constituency candidates, or with the negotiation of the sponsorship RPR's candidate, Bruno Megret, with the aim of weakening the score of Jean-Marie Le Pen in the presidential election of 2002.
In the election of Nicolas Sarkozy as head of the UMP in 2004, Alain Marleix is appointed to be in charge of the national secretariat during the elections, strategic position, he had already held, which allowed him to know the entire French political staff and prepared the nomination of candidates for parliamentary, municipal and cantonal elections.
Education
Although his family was from Paris, Alain Marleix was born in Paris and joined the Collège Sainte-Barbe in Paris. Later on he went to the École des Hautes Études in Social Sciences (EHESS), and won the degrees of Political Science and Journalism in Lille. Marleix was a parliamentary journalist and held the position of head of the political department of the daily paper La Nation from 1968 to 1976.
External Links
Official Webpage Assemblée Nationale
Official Webpage of the Observatoire Citoyen de l'Activité Parlamentaire
