Gaëtan Dussausaye | |
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| Member of theNational Assembly forVosges's2nd constituency | |
| Assumed office 8 July 2024 | |
| Preceded by | David Valence |
| Member of the European Parliament | |
| In office 16 July 2024 – 26 September 2024 | |
| Succeeded by | Christophe Bay |
| President of theFront national de la jeunesse | |
| In office 8 October 2014 – 12 March 2018 | |
| President | Marine Le Pen |
| Preceded by | Julien Rochedy |
| Succeeded by | Jordan Bardella |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1994-04-05)5 April 1994 (age 31) Brétigny-sur-Orge, France |
| Political party | National Rally |
| Alma mater | University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne |
Gaëtan Dussausaye (born 5 April 1994) is a French politician.
From 2014 to 2018, he was the President of theNational Front's youth wing,Front national de la jeunesse. He currently holds various positions within the party.
Following the2024 European Parliament election in France, he was elected as aMember of the European Parliament.[1]
Gaëtan Dussausaye grew up in Plessis-Pâté, with a mother who worked as a nurse, a father who was marketing director for a large French company, two brothers and one sister.[2] His parents were not political and had never voted for the National Front.[2]
He obtained abaccalauréat littéraire, graded 'Bien', in 2011.[2] During his years at school, he ran a metal band, the Bursting Creepy.[2] He started to become interested in politics after observing discrimination between the students at school.[3]
He studied at theUniversity of Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne, where he obtained abachelor's degree inphilosophy and modern literature.[4] After starting amaster's degree in philosophy, he abandoned his studies after his accession to the presidency of the FNJ.[2]
After a brief involvement with a group dedicated to the memory ofCharles de Gaulle,[5] Dussausaye joined the National Front in 2011. His mother encouraged him to campaign in Paris, which was far away from his family's village.[2] He began his political career as an activist during the2012 presidential campaign ofMarine Le Pen. He was successively Deputy Head of the FNJ in Paris and Departmental Secretary for Youth in Paris.[2]
On October 8, 2014, Marine Le Pen named him President of the Front national de la jeunesse.[4] He benefited from the support ofWallerand de Saint-Just, and succeededJulien Rochedy, who "struggled to come to a consensus."[2]
At the FN conference in November 2014, he joined the central committee (nominated by Marine Le Pen) and the political office.[3] He is a permanent employee of the National Rally'sNanterre branch.[3]
Since 2018, he has been the National Rally's co-representative for research and communications.[6]
Gaëtan Dussausaye is seen as an important figure in thede-demonisation of the National Rally.[2] While he does not label himself asGaullist, he is an admirer of Charles de Gaulle.[3][2] He describes himself as a "patriot andsouverainist".[3] Although he is sometimes presented as being close withFlorian Philippot,[2][9]Le Figaro places him within the party alongside "the non-aligned, because of their long-term commitment to the Front, their personal closeness with the FN's President, and the cautious neutrality they have observed in the recent conflicts."[10]
In an interview soon after he became President of the FNJ, he was asked about theGreat Replacement theory. In response he stated that he "does not see a replacement of people", but "above all a replacement of culture, at the base ofRenaud Camus' theory there is aracialist foundation that we do not consider." This statement attracted many hostile responses from within the party.[2]
Between 2014 and 2015, Dussausaye said that he was inspired byAristotle,Rousseau,Spinoza,Boris Vian,Orwell andMarx – in regards to the latter he said: "not out of adhesion, but to have an argument against the left."[3][2]
After the2017 presidential election, he denied "without question" that the FN was in favour of leaving theeurozone.
