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David Rachline | |
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| Member of theFrench Senate forVar | |
| In office 1 October 2014 – 1 October 2017 | |
| Succeeded by | Claudine Kauffmann |
| Mayor ofFréjus | |
| Assumed office 5 April 2014 | |
| Preceded by | Élie Brun |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1987-12-02)2 December 1987 (age 38) Saint-Raphaël, France |
| Party | National Rally |
David Rachline (born 2 December 1987) is a French politician forNational Rally. He was electedmayor ofFréjus in March 2014 and elected to theFrench Senate in September 2014.
David Rachline was born the son of socialist activist Serge Rachline,[1] whoseJewish grandparents had[2] migrated to France from Ukraine.
David Rachline claims hisnon-Jewishness, because he was notcircumcised, did not to haveBar Mitzvah, and his father was a "non-observant" Jew.[1] He defines himself asagnostic.[3]
Rachline graduated with a baccalaureate in "accounting"[4] and dropped law studies at age 18.[5] to devote himself to the party.[6]
Rachline has stated that he was interested in political and militant action, before he joined theFront national.[7]
In 2002, he joined the Front national, at the age of 15, "extremely motivated by the arrival of Jean-Marie Le Pen" in the second round of the2002 French presidential election.[4] In 2006, he became president of theVar section of the "Génération nation" (Front national youth organization), as well as of the "Jeunes avec Le Pen",[4] and went through "Génération Le Pen", the movement ofMarine Le Pen. He actively participated in her 2007 presidential campaign[8] with Farid Smahi, he organized the arrival of Jean-Marie Le Pen on the slab ofArgenteuil (also known as “Operation Asperge”), whereNicolas Sarkozy had made controversial comments about “Kärcher” and “scum” in 2005. He was also an alternate candidate in the 2007 French parliamentary elections and elected to the FN Central Committee in 2007.[4]
He was affected by Catherine Mégret, then mayor ofVitrolles, Bouches-du-Rhône when she set up a birth allowance in the amount of 5000 Francs (€762) for children of French parents or European Union nationals, a measure which he supported in 2008.[7]
In 2009, he took over the leadership of the National Youth Front and held this post until 2011.[9] In the2014 French municipal elections, Rachline was electedmayor of Fréjus after having obtained 40.30% of the votes in the first round and 45.55% in the second round.[10]
In theFrench Senate election in September 2014, he was elected to theSenate, becoming together withStéphane Ravier the first senators from National Rally (then known as Front National).[11]