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François-Xavier Bellamy | |
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 Official portrait, 2024 | |
| Vice-Chair of theEuropean People's Party in theEuropean Parliament | |
| Assumed office 19 June 2024[1] | |
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| Serving alongside | |
| Preceded by | |
| Executive Vice President ofThe Republicans | |
| Assumed office 18 February 2023 | |
| President | Éric Ciotti Bruno Retailleau |
| Preceded by | Aurélien Pradié |
| Member of the European Parliament | |
| Assumed office 2 July 2019 | |
| Constituency | France |
| Municipal councillor ofVersailles | |
| In office 21 March 2008 – 28 June 2020 | |
| Mayor | François de Mazières |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1985-10-11)11 October 1985 (age 40) |
| Political party | The Republicans (since 2019) |
| Education | Lycée Henri-IV |
| Alma mater | École normale supérieure Paris-Sorbonne University University of Cambridge |
François-Xavier Bellamy (French:[fʁɑ̃swaɡzavjebelami]; born 11 October 1985) is a French essayist,high-school teacher and politician. He is a former Deputy Mayor ofVersailles (2008–2019) and is now aMember of the European Parliament (2019–present), having ledThe Republicans (LR) list in the2019 and2024 election.
Since 2023, he has been LR's executive vice president underÉric Ciotti andBruno Retailleau.
François-Xavier Bellamy was born in 1985 in Paris.[2][3]
Bellamy was educated at the École Sainte-Marie des Bourdonnais, a private school in Versailles.[4] After two-yearspreparatory classes (A/L) in theLycée Henri-IV, he was admitted toÉcole normale supérieure in 2005.[3] He earned theagrégation in philosophy in 2008.[3]
Bellamy taught philosophy at the Lycée Sainte-Geneviève and the Lycée Notre-Dame de Grandchamp in Versailles in 2008.[3] In 2009, he taught at the Lycée Auguste Renoir inAsnières-sur-Seine, the Lycée Louis Bascan inRambouillet and the Lycée hôtelier inGuyancourt.[3] Since 2011, he has been teaching philosophy and art history for thepreparatory classes at theLycée Blomet in Paris.[3]
Bellamy is the author of four books. He won the Prix d'Aumale from theAcadémie Française in 2014 for his first book,Les déshérités ou l'urgence de transmettre.[5] In thisessay, he analyses the failure of the French educational system as the result of an ideology that refuses the transmission of culture, thus creatingdisinherited students.
Bellamy wasdeputy mayor inVersailles for employment, youth and higher education.[3]
He was a candidate for theNational Assembly elections inYvelines's 1st constituency in2017, invested by The Republicans, but he lost in the second round against the candidate ofEn Marche!,Didier Baichère with 48.9% vs 51.1% of the votes.[6]
Since May 2019, Bellamy has been aMember of the European Parliament for theEPP. In parliament, he is a member of theCommittee on Fisheries (PECH) and theCommittee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE).
In addition to his committee assignments, Bellamy is part of theInter-Parliamentary Alliance on China.[7]
Ahead of the Republicans' 2022 convention, Bellamy endorsedBruno Retailleau as the party's chairman.[8] During the2024 French legislative election, he stated that he would support the far-rightRassemblement national in a second-round contest against the left-wing New Popular Front.[9]
In a joint letter initiated byNorbert Röttgen andAnthony Gonzalez ahead of the47th G7 summit in 2021, Bellamy joined some 70 legislators from Europe and the US in calling upon their leaders to take a tough stance on China and to "avoid becoming dependent" on the country for technology includingartificial intelligence and5G.[10] He voted no in the2005 French European Constitution referendum.[11]
Bellamy has been a member of the French anti gay marriage movement from its modern inception.[12] He opposed extending the right toassisted reproductive technology to lesbian couples. Heopposes abortion.[11]
In the Republicans' 2025 leadership election, Bellamy again endorsed Bruno Retailleau to succeedÉric Ciotti as the party's new chair.[13]
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