Hervé Mariton | |
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| Mayor ofCrest | |
| Assumed office 24 June 1995 | |
| Preceded by | Jean-Pierre Tabardel |
| Minister of the Overseas | |
| In office 27 March 2007 – 15 May 2007 | |
| President | Jacques Chirac |
| Preceded by | François Baroin |
| Succeeded by | Michèle Alliot-Marie |
| Member of theNational Assembly forDrôme's3rd constituency | |
| In office 20 June 2007 – 20 June 2017 | |
| Preceded by | Fabien Limonta |
| Succeeded by | Célia de Lavergne |
| In office 19 June 2002 – 26 April 2007 | |
| Preceded by | Michel Grégoire |
| Succeeded by | Fabien Limonta |
| In office 2 April 1993 – 21 April 1997 | |
| Preceded by | Henri Michel |
| Succeeded by | Michel Grégoire |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Hervé Marie David Mariton (1958-11-05)5 November 1958 (age 66) Algiers,French Algeria |
| Nationality | French |
| Political party | Republican Party(until 1997) Liberal Democracy(1997–2002) Union for a Popular Movement(2002–2015) The Republicans(since 2015) |
| Education | Lycée Louis-le-Grand |
| Alma mater | École Polytechnique Paris Dauphine University Sciences Po |
Hervé Marie David Mariton (French pronunciation:[ɛʁvemaʁidavidmaʁitɔ̃]; born 5 November 1958) is a French politician serving asMayor ofCrest since 1995. A member ofThe Republicans, he was elected to theNational Assembly for thethird constituency ofDrôme from 1993 to 1997 and again from 2002 until 2017, with a brief interruption in 2007, when he was appointedMinister of the Overseas by PresidentJacques Chirac in the last weeks of his second term, replacingFrançois Baroin, who becameMinister of the Interior.
A member of theCorps des mines, Mariton was elected to themunicipal council ofChevreuse,Yvelines in1983 and theRegional council of Rhône-Alpes in1986. In1989, he became a municipal councillor inCrest. He was national secretary in theRepublican Party that was dissolved in 1997 and later inLiberal Democracy, established the same year. In 1998, he was a candidate for president of theUnion for French Democracy, receiving 10% of the vote againstFrançois Bayrou.
He served as a member of theNational Assembly from1993 until1997, when he lost his reelection bid. He returned to Parliament in2002, winning reelection in2007 and2012. He represented thethird constituency of theDrômedepartment. He joined the newly-establishedUnion for a Popular Movement in 2002, which becameThe Republicans in 2015. From March to May 2007, he served asMinister of the Overseas underPrime MinisterDominique de Villepin. AsNicolas Sarkozy had resigned as Interior Minister to run forPresident of France, Overseas MinisterFrançois Baroin was appointed to succeed him.[1]
From 1995 to 1997 and again from 2002 until 2017, Mariton served on the Committee on Finance, Economic Affairs and Budgetary Control. During his time in national politics, he was widely seen as a critic of President Sarkozy from 2007 onwards. Although being part ofThe Reformers, a liberal faction within the party, he opposed the passage ofLaw 2013-404, which legalisedsame-sex marriage in France.[2] In the2016 The Republicans presidential primary, he endorsedAlain Juppé. Mariton is fluent in French, English and Russian.[3]
Mariton currently serves as:
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