Manuel Bompard

Manuel Bompard is a French politician who was elected as a Member of the European Parliament in 2019.[3]

Manuel Bompard

MEP
Member of the European Parliament
for France
Assumed office
2 July 2019[1][2]
Personal details
Born (1986-03-30) 30 March 1986
Firminy, France
NationalityFrench
Political partyLa France Insoumise
Alma materUniversity of Nice Sophia Antipolis

Early life and education

Manuel Bompard was born on March 30, 1986 in Firminy, and grew up in the Drôme. His father is a computer scientist, then a farmer, his mother is a public servant in the housing sector. He graduated from a Grenoble's engineering school. He is a doctor in mathematics in 2011, after having defended a thesis of applied mathematics in aeronautics at the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis. He works in a startup specialized in machine learning in Ramonville-Saint-Agne.[4]

Political career

Manuel Bompard joined the Left Party at its creation in 2009. He became national secretary in 2010. In 2012, he became a member of the "events" team of the campaign of Jean-Luc Mélenchon for the presidential election.[5]

In 2015, he was the candidate of the Left Party, in partnership with Dagmara Szlagor of EELV, in the 2015 Departmental elections in Haute-Garonne in the Canton of Toulouse-5, where they arrive in 3rd position.[6]

In 2017, Manuel Bompard is a candidate in the legislative election in the 9th constituency of Haute-Garonne, for La France Insoumise. He was defeated in the second round by Sandrine Mörch of La République En Marche!.[7]

In July 2018, he left the leadership of the Left Party in order to devote himself to his mission of spokesman for the La France Insoumise and the European's campaign. During the 2019 European Parliament election, he is in second place on the La France Insoumise's list of candidates.[8]

References
  1. "Key dates ahead". European Parliament. 20 May 2017. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
  2. "Key dates ahead". BBC News. 22 May 2017. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
  3. CAZENAVE, Fabien (27 May 2019). "Parlement européen. Qui sont les 79 eurodéputés élus en France ?". Ouest-France.fr (in French). Retrieved 3 March 2020.
  4. Jean-Pierre Bédéï (26 August 2016). "Bompard, the Toulousain of Mélenchon" (in French). La Dépêche du Midi. Retrieved 5 June 2019.
  5. Guillaume Laurens (22 May 2017). "Legislative: Manuel Bompard, Melenchon's right-hand man, wants to fend the Pink City red" (in French). Actu.fr. Retrieved 5 June 2019.
  6. Noé Michalon (5 March 2017). "Manuel Bompard, the supercomputer behind Mélenchon" (in French). Slate. Retrieved 5 June 2019.
  7. Helene Menal (18 June 2017). "2017 legislative results: Manuel Bompard, the left arm of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, loses his bet in Toulouse" (in French). 20 minutes. Retrieved 5 June 2019.
  8. Anthony Assemat (27 May 2019). "European. Five deputies from Occitania will sit in parliament: who are they?" (in French). Actu.fr. Retrieved 5 June 2019.
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