Florence Portelli
| Florence Portelli | |
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| File:Florence Portelli - 20170910.jpg | |
| Mayor of Taverny | |
| Assumed office 4 Avril 2014 |
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| Regional Councillor of Île-de-France | |
| Assumed office 18 December 2015 |
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| Personal details | |
| Born | 23 March 1978 Argenteuil, France |
| Political party | UMP (Before 2015) The Republicans (2015–2019, since 2021) |
| Alma mater | Panthéon-Assas University |
Florence Portelli (born 23 March 1978 in Argenteuil) is a French politician who has been serving as Mayor of Taverny since 2014. She has also been a regional councillor of Île-de-France since 2015.
A longtime member of The Republicans, Portelli served as François Fillon's spokeswoman during his presidential election campaign in 2017. She was a candidate for the presidency of The Republicans that year.
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Early life and education
Portelli is the daughter of senator Hugues Portelli and Marie Bosi. She enrolled at the Panthéon-Assas University where she graduated with a M.A. in public law of the Sorbonne Law School and, later, with a degree of Paris Institute of Criminology.[1]
Political career
In 2014, Portelli was elected Mayor of Taverny.[2][3] As part of the campaign led by Valérie Pécresse, she became regional councillor of Île-de-France in the 2015 elections.[1]
In 2015, Portelli was appointed as member of The Republicans political bureau by its chairman Nicolas Sarkozy[4] and became the party's national spokesperson on cultural affairs.[5]
Having supported François Fillon during the 2012 leadership election, Portelli was selected as spokesperson for his 2017 presidential campaign,[6] and later as The Republicans' campaign spokeswoman for the 2017 French legislative election, in the team led by François Baroin.[7][8]
Ahead of the Republicans' 2017 leadership elections, Portelli declared her candidacy on 29 August 2017,[9] arguing that she wanted to work "for the right to recover its pride", to "return to activists the place that they should have in the party", and "a refoundation, a democratized functioning, a radical change to statutes and clarification of the ideological line of the party".[10] She excludes any possibility of cooperating with the extreme right, argues for the need to "reinforce" immigration control, and supports the definitive exclusion of LR members of "The Constructives",[11] saying they had "excluded themselves", but invited those who hoped that its creation would propel the right to reform to "to return to the fold," believing them mistaken.[1] In the final vote, she lost against Laurent Wauquiez.[12]
In February 2018, Portelli was appointed General secretary of "Libres !", a movement founded by Valérie Pécresse and affiliated with the Republicans.[13]
Personal life
Portelli has been playing piano since the age of six and is an avid jazz lover.[7] In 2016, she was elected President of the Orchestre national d'Île-de-France, a French symphony orchestra[14]
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- ↑ Sophie Louet, Emile Picy, Brian Love and Gerard Bon (January 26, 2017), French candidate Fillon's lawyer says he confident, but supporters worry Reuters.
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- ↑ Anne-Sylvaine Chassany (January 15, 2018), Alain Juppé quits French Republicans party after 40 years Financial Times.
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External links
- Official website Script error: No such module "In lang".
