Thierry Solère

Thierry Solère (born 17 August 1971) is a French politician of La République En Marche! (LREM) who has been serving as a member of the National Assembly since the 2012 elections, representing the department of Hauts-de-Seine.[1][2][3]

Thierry Solère
Member of the National Assembly
for Hauts-de-Seine's 9th constituency
Assumed office
20 June 2012
Preceded byPierre-Christophe Baguet
Personal details
Born (1971-08-17) 17 August 1971
Nantes, France
NationalityFrench
Political partyUMP (before 2015)
The Republicans (2015–17)
La République En Marche! (since 2017)
ResidenceBoulogne-Billancourt, France

Political career

Ahead of the 2017 presidential election, Solère served as chief spokesperson of candidate François Fillon's campaign; however, he resigned amid the Fillon affair.[4] He remained a member of LR but set up a separate group in parliament.[5]

Since the 2017 elections, Solère has been serving on the Defence Committee. In addition to his committee assignments, he is a member of the French-Israeli Parliamentary Friendship Group.[6]

From June until November 2017, Solère briefly served as a quaestor and was therefore part of the parliament's Bureau in the 15th legislature of the French Fifth Republic, under the leadership of president François de Rugy. He resigned from this position[7] when he joined LREM in November 2017.[8]

After Gilles Boyer left national politics to run in the 2019 European elections, news media reported that Solère took his place as Prime Minister Édouard Philippe's "new (unofficial) liaison officer within the majority" and is "in direct contact with Philippe Grangeon, Emmanuel Macron's special adviser".[9]

Political positions

In response to France’s anti-terrorism legislation allowing mass surveillance of suspected terrorists following the January 2015 Île-de-France attacks, Solère and Philippe Juvin sent a joint letter to President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker warning that, without proper safeguards, the new intelligence measures would violate the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union.[10]

Ahead of the Republicans’ 2017 leadership elections, Solère publicly opposed Laurent Wauquiez, warning that he would be the right’s “grave-digger” and criticizing him for refusing to call supporters to back Macron against National Front (FN) chair Marine Le Pen in the second round of the presidential election.[11]

Controversy

In 2017, French weekly Le Canard enchaîné claimed that Solère was the subject of a preliminary tax fraud investigation by the public prosecutor of Nanterre, for having failed paying his taxes between 2010 and 2013.[12]

References
  1. "Thierry Solère gagne la guerre des droites dans les Hauts-de-Seine". Le Huffington Post.
  2. lefigaro.fr. "Législatives: Thierry Solère réélu".
  3. "Résultats législatives : Thierry Solère (LR) réélu dans les Hauts-de-Seine".
  4. Anne-Sylvaine Chassany (March 9, 2017), Fillon moves to reboot campaign team in French presidential race Financial Times.
  5. Ingrid Melander (September 3, 2017), 'The right is back,' says frontrunner to lead French conservatives Reuters.
  6. Thierry Solère French National Assembly.
  7. Olivier Beaumontet and Nathalie Schuck (November 29, 2017), Thierry Solère, l'homme qui marche... pour lui Le Parisien.
  8. Christine Ollivier (November 25, 2017), Darmanin, Solère et Lecornu adhèrent à En Marche Le Journal du Dimanche
  9. Ludovic Vigogne (June 11, 2019), Thierry Solère, dans l’ombre d’Edouard Philippe L'Opinion
  10. Quentin Ariès (May 12, 2015), French surveillance bill faces EU scrutiny Politico Europe.
  11. Ingrid Melander (September 3, 2017), 'The right is back,' says frontrunner to lead French conservatives Reuters.
  12. France election: Fillon spokesman denies tax evasion BBC News, February 15, 2017.


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