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François-Xavier Bellamy
Bellamy in 2023
Vice-Chair of the European People's Party in the European Parliament
Incumbent
Assumed office
19 June 2024
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Executive Vice President of The Republicans
Incumbent
Assumed office
18 February 2023
PresidentÉric Ciotti
Preceded byAurélien Pradié
Parliamentary groupEPP
Member of the European Parliament
Incumbent
Assumed office
2 July 2019
ConstituencyFrance
Member of the municipal council of Versailles
In office
21 March 2008 – 28 June 2020
MayorFrançois de Mazières
Personal details
Born (1985-10-11) 11 October 1985 (age 39)
Paris, France
Political partyThe Republicans (since 2019)
EducationLycée Henri-IV
Alma materÉcole normale supérieure
Paris-Sorbonne University
University of Cambridge
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François-Xavier Bellamy (French: [fʁɑ̃swa ɡzavje belami]; born 11 October 1985) is a French essayist, high-school teacher and politician. He is a former Deputy Mayor of Versailles (2008–2019) and is now a Member of the European Parliament (2019–present), having led The Republicans (LR) list in the 2019 and 2024 election.

Since 2023, he has been LR's executive vice president.

Early life and education

François-Xavier Bellamy was born in 1985 in Paris.

Bellamy was educated at the École Sainte-Marie des Bourdonnais, a private school in Versailles. After two-years preparatory classes (A/L) in the Lycée Henri-IV, he got into the École normale supérieure, from which he graduated in 2005. He earned the agrégation in philosophy in 2008.

Early career

Bellamy taught philosophy at the Lycée Sainte-Geneviève and the Lycée Notre-Dame de Grandchamp in Versailles in 2008. In 2009, he taught at the Lycée Auguste Renoir in Asnières-sur-Seine, the Lycée Louis Bascan in Rambouillet and the Lycée hôtelier in Guyancourt. Since 2011, he has been teaching philosophy and art history for the preparatory classes at the Lycée Blomet in Paris.

Bellamy is the author of four books. He won the Prix d'Aumale from the Académie Française in 2014 for his first book, Les déshérités ou l'urgence de transmettre. In this essay, he analyses the failure of the French educational system as the result of an ideology that refuses the transmission of culture, thus creating disinherited students.

Political career

Career in local politics

Bellamy was deputy mayor in Versailles for employment, youth and higher education.

He was a candidate for the National Assembly elections in Yvelines's 1st constituency in 2017, invested by The Republicans, but he lost in the second round against the candidate of En Marche!, Didier Baichère with 48.9% vs 51.1% of the votes.

Member of the European Parliament, 2019–present

Since May 2019, Bellamy has been a Member of the European Parliament for the EPP. In parliament, he is a member of the Committee on Fisheries (PECH) and the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE).

In addition to his committee assignments, Bellamy is part of the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China.

Political positions

Ahead of the Republicans' 2022 convention, Bellamy endorsed Bruno Retailleau as the party's chairman. During the 2024 French legislative election, he stated that he would support the far-right Rassemblement national in a second-round contest against the left-wing New Popular Front.

In a joint letter initiated by Norbert Röttgen and Anthony Gonzalez ahead of the 47th G7 summit in 2021, Bellamy joined some 70 legislators from Europe and the US in calling upon their leaders to take a tough stance on China and to "avoid becoming dependent" on the country for technology including artificial intelligence and 5G. He voted no in the 2005 French European Constitution referendum.

Bellamy has been a member of the French anti gay marriage movement from its modern inception. He opposed extending the right to assisted reproductive technology to lesbian couples. He opposes abortion.

Works

References

  1. "Manfred Weber and the new EPP Group leadership team elected". www.eppgroup.eu.
  2. "François-Xavier Bellamy". Bibliothèque nationale de France. Retrieved 22 February 2017.
  3. ^ "BELLAMY François-Xavier". Académie des Sciences Morales, des Lettres et des Arts de Versailles. Archived from the original on 22 February 2017. Retrieved 22 February 2017.
  4. "Conférence". Ecole Sainte-Marie des Bourdonnais. Archived from the original on 28 July 2017. Retrieved 22 February 2017.
  5. "L'élu de Versailles primé pour son livre " Les Déshérités "". Le Parisien. 25 November 2015. Retrieved 22 February 2017.
  6. l'Intérieur, Ministère de. "Résultats des élections législatives 2017". interieur.gouv.fr/Elections/Les-resultats/Legislatives/elecresult__legislatives-2017 (in French). Retrieved 3 March 2020.
  7. Members, Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China.
  8. Eric Ciotti élu président du parti Les Républicains, Le Monde (in French), 11 December 2022.
  9. Barbarit, Simon (13 June 2024). "Législatives : Bellamy annonce vouloir voter RN contre le Front Populaire et se fait « rattraper par la patrouille »". Public Sénat. Retrieved 28 June 2024.
  10. Stuart Lau (25 January 2021), G7 lawmakers tell leaders to ‘stand up’ to China, Politico Europe.
  11. ^ "Philo, IVG, rap... Dix choses à savoir sur François-Xavier Bellamy, tête de liste des Républicains aux européennes". France Info. 19 January 2019. Retrieved 28 June 2024.
  12. "F.-X. Bellamy : « Mariage gay : il n'y a pas de clivage générationnel »". www.cnews.fr (in French). 13 December 2012. Retrieved 20 December 2024.
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