Marc Joulaud MEP |
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Marc Joulaud in the European Parliament of Strasourg
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Member of the European Parliament for West France |
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In office 1 July 2014 – July 2019 |
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Majority | European People's Party |
Mayor of Sablé-sur-Sarthe | |
In office 9 March 2008 – March 2020 |
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Preceded by | Pierre Touchard |
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Born |
Mayenne, Mayenne, FR |
3 September 1967
Political party | Les Républicains |
Alma mater | University of Maine (France) |
Website | marcjoulaud.eu |
Marc Joulaud (born 3 September 1967 in Mayenne) is a French politician. He is a member of the French center right party Les Républicains (LR) and he is currently Member of the European Parliament for the West France constituency.
Marc Joulaud studied law, first at the Maine University in Le Mans where he obtained a public law bachelor. He also obtained a master's degree in the same field at Université Paris-1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. He finished his studies at Science Po Paris, where he specialised in local government.
In 1992, he started working with François Fillon, at that time mayor of Sablé-sur-Sarthe, as special advisor, which marked the beginning of a long cooperation between the two men. From 1992 to 1995, Marc Joulaud was François Fillon’s parliamentary assistant. In 1995 and 1998, when François Fillon was elected president of the Conseil general de la Sarthe and Conseil régional des Pays de la Loire, Marc Joulaud followed him as his closest advisor.
Marc Joulaud began his own political career in 2001 when he became city councillor of Sablé-sur-Sarthe. He also became vice-president of the Communauté de commune de Sablé-sur-Sarthe (community of communes).
On 9 June 2002, he became substitute deputy MP of the 4th constituency of Sarthe, after François Fillon’s election as MP (With 55,21% of the ballot at the first round). He finally became MP on 19 July 2002, after the nomination of François Fillon as a member of the government. During his entire mandate he was a member of the UMP group at the Assemblée Nationale (National Assembly) and a member of the Defence committee. In this committee he was in charge of the monitoring of the credit execution. He was also vice-president of the friendship group between France and Slovenia.
For the 2007 legislative election, he was again appointed as François Fillon’s deputy MP in the same constituency. François Fillon and Marc Joulaud were re-elected on the 10 June 2007 with 53,40% of the ballots at the first round, and François Fillon was confirmed as French Prime Minister on the 19 June. Marc Joulaud returned as a MP on 20 July 2007 and returned in his previous political group and committee, but became president of the friendship group between France and Sierra-Leone.