Éric Ciotti

Éric Ciotti (born 28 September 1965) is a French politician of The Republicans (LR) who has been serving as the member of the National Assembly for Alpes-Maritimes's 1st constituency since 2007.[1] He also served as President of the Departmental Council of Alpes-Maritimes from 2008 to 2017.

Éric Ciotti
Ciotti in 2011
Member of the National Assembly
for Alpes-Maritimes's 1st constituency
Assumed office
20 June 2007
Preceded byJérôme Rivière
President of the Departmental Council
of Alpes-Maritimes
In office
18 December 2008 – 15 September 2017
Preceded byChristian Estrosi
Succeeded byCharles-Ange Ginésy
Personal details
Born (1965-09-28) 28 September 1965
Nice, France
NationalityFrench
Political partyUnion for a Popular Movement
The Republicans
Alma materSciences Po

Political career

Career in regional politics

Ciotti was elected to the General Council of Alpes-Maritimes in the 2008 cantonal elections for Saint-Martin-Vésubie; he took its presidency the same year, succeeding Christian Estrosi. After the 2015 departmental elections, the Departmental Council of Alpes-Maritimes replaced the General Council of Alpes-Maritimes. Following the adoption of a new law organising the cumul des mandats, he resigned from the body's presidency in 2017 while keeping his councillor mandate.

Member of the National Assembly, 2007–present

Ciotti was elected to the National Assembly during the 2007 election; he was reelected in 2012 and 2017.

In parliament, Ciotti has been serving on the Committee on Legal Affairs since 2007.[2] Since 2017, he has also been a quaestor and therefore part of the Assembly's Bureau in the 15th legislature of the French Fifth Republic, under the leadership of president Richard Ferrand.

Ahead of the UMP's 2012 leadership election, Ciotti managed François Fillon's campaign.[3] When Fillon's opponent Jean-François Copé eventually won, Ciotti was one of more than 50 party members who threatened to form a new centre-right caucus within the UMP parliamentary group under the leadership of Fillon.[4]

In September 2014, Ciotti joined Fillon, Étienne Blanc, Pierre Lellouche and Valérie Pécresse on an official trip to Iraq.[5]

Ahead of the Republicans' 2016 primaries, Ciotti managed former president Nicolas Sarkozy’s campaign for the presidential nomination, alongside Catherine Vautrin.[6] Also in 2016, he formally requested that prosecutors investigate President François Hollande over a potential breach of security ollowing revelations that Hollande disclosed classified information to journalists.[7]

Amid the Fillon affair, Ciotti succeeded Gérald Darmanin as deputy of the Republicans' secretary general Bernard Accoyer[8] and subsequently became a vocal defender of Fillon as the party's candidate for the 2017 presidential election. When magistrates put Fillon under formal investigation on suspicion of embezzling state funds, Ciotti publicly state “I trust and support Francois Fillon more than ever."[9][10] When Fillon called on members to vote for Emmanuel Macron in the second round of the election against Marine Le Pen, Ciotti refused to endorse Macron.[11]

In the Republicans’ 2017 leadership election, Ciotti endorsed Laurent Wauquiez.[12] In 2018, Wauquiez included him in his shadow cabinet; in this capacity, he served as opposition counterpart to Minister of the Interior Christophe Castaner.[13][14]

In 2020, Ciotti became the parliament’s rapporteur on how the government handled the COVID-19 pandemic in France.[15]

Political positions

In 2019, Ciotti successfully added an amendment to an education bill to make it mandatory for classrooms to display both a French and European Union flag in all classrooms.[16]

In 2020, Ciotti proposed a bill to the National Assembly which would prohibit the dissemination of images depicting functions of the national police, municipal police, military, and customs officers; with a maximum penalty of 15,000 euros and a year in prison for violators.[17]

Other activities
  • French Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons (OFPRA), Member of the Board of Directors[18]

References
  1. "LISTE DÉFINITIVE DES DÉPUTÉS ÉLUS À L'ISSUE DES DEUX TOURS" (in French). National Assembly of France. Retrieved 2010-07-03.
  2. Éric Ciotti French National Assembly.
  3. Nicholas Vinocur, Sophie Louet and Natalie Huet (November 21, 2012) Fillon cries foul anew in French right leadership bid Reuters.
  4. Catherine Bremer (November 27, 2012) French conservatives slip further into crisis Reuters.
  5. Brune Jeudy (August 31, 2014) Fillon en Irak pour soutenir les chrétiens d'Orient Le Journal du Dimanche.
  6. Anne-Sylvaine Chassany (November 7, 2016) French right calls for François Hollande’s impeachment Financial Times.
  7. Anne-Sylvaine Chassany (November 7, 2016) French right calls for François Hollande’s impeachment Financial Times.
  8. Jean-Baptiste Garat (April 4, 2017), Éric Ciotti prend du galon chez Les Républicains Le Figaro.
  9. Simon Carraud and Brian Love (March 14, 2017) France's Fillon under formal investigation for fraud ahead of election Reuters.
  10. Jean-Baptiste Vey and Ingrid Melander (March 26, 2017) France's Fillon 'very likely' wiretapped, ally says Reuters.
  11. Paul Chaulet (April 24, 2017), Guaino, Ciotti, Sens Commun... cette droite qui n'appelle pas à voter Macron L'Express.
  12. Ludovic Vigogne (October 11, 2017), La liste des 136 parrains de Laurent Wauquiez L'Opinion.
  13. Olivier Faye (November 21, 2018), Laurent Wauquiez dévoile (enfin) son « shadow cabinet » Le Monde.
  14. Nicolas Berrod (November 21, 2018), Laurent Wauquiez inaugure son «gouvernement fantôme» Le Parisien.
  15. Chloé Hecketsweiler and Solenn de Royer (June 30, 2020), Eric Ciotti, rapporteur patient et méticuleux de la commission d’enquête sanitaire Le Monde.
  16. French classrooms to fly national and Europe flags from now on
  17. Une proposition de loi d’Eric Ciotti pour empêcher la diffusion d’images de policiers suscite un tollé Éric Ciotti veut punir les personnes qui filment et diffusent des vidéos de policiers
  18. Board of Directors French Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons (OFPRA).
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