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Maël de Calan
French politician (born 1980) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Maël de La Lande de Calan (French pronunciation: [maɛl d(ə) la lɑ̃d də kalɑ̃]; born 30 April 1980) is a French politician who has served as President of the Departmental Council of Finistère since 2021.[1] He has been a departmental councillor for the canton of Saint-Pol-de-Léon since 2015, as well as a municipal councillor of Roscoff since 2014.[2] De Calan ran in the 2017 The Republicans leadership election, placing third.
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De Calan was born in Marseille in 1980,[3] and joined the Rally for the Republic at the age of 18.[4][5] While studying at Sciences Po in 2002, he was the last leader of its Rally for the Republic branch, and the first leader of its Union for a Popular Movement branch.[6] He later studied at HEC Paris, where he served as leader of its Union for a Popular Movement branch.[3][4] He was a co-leader of the La Boîte à idées motion at the 2012 party congress, and was appointed member of its political bureau in 2013.[7] He was elected municipal councillor of Roscoff in 2014, and was elected member of the Departmental Council of Finistère in 2015.[2]
In 2016, de Calan was elected leader of The Republicans in Finistère.[8] Ahead of the party's 2016 presidential primary, he served as spokesperson for Alain Juppé.[9] He was a candidate for leader of The Republicans in the 2017 election, and finished third to Laurent Wauquiez and Florence Portelli.[10] In the 2017 legislative election, he was a candidate for Finistère's 4th constituency.[11] He joined Soyons libres in February 2018, and was appointed as its vice president.[12] In August 2018, he stood down as leader of The Republicans in Finistère, and endorsed Philippe Paul as his successor.[13] He left The Republicans in 2019, alongside Valérie Pécresse.[14]
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