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Maël de Calan
De Calan in 2024
President of the Departmental Council of Finistère
Incumbent
Assumed office
1 July 2021
Preceded byNathalie Sarrabezolles
Personal details
Born (1980-04-30) 30 April 1980 (age 44)
Marseille, France
Political partySoyons libres (since 2018)
Other political
affiliations		Rally for the Republic (1998–2002)
Union for a Popular Movement (2002–2015)
The Republicans (2015–2019)

Maël de Calan (born 30 April 1980) is a French politician serving as president of the Departmental Council of Finistère since 2021. He has been a member of the departmental council since 2015, and has served as a municipal councillor of Roscoff since 2014.

Early life and career

De Calan was born in Marseille in 1980, and joined the Rally for the Republic at the age of 18. While studying at Sciences Po in 2002, he was the last leader of its Rally for the Republic branch, and the first leader of its Union for a Popular Movement branch. He later studied at HEC Paris, where he served as leader of its Union for a Popular Movement branch. He was a co-leader of the La Boîte à idées motion at the 2012 party congress, and was appointed member of its political bureau in 2013. He was elected municipal councillor of Roscoff in 2014, and was elected member of the Departmental Council of Finistère in 2015.

In 2016, de Calan was elected leader of The Republicans in Finistère. Ahead of the party's 2016 presidential primary, he served as spokesperson for Alain Juppé. He was a candidate for leader of The Republicans in the 2017 election, and finished third to Laurent Wauquiez and Florence Portelli. In the 2017 legislative election, he was a candidate for Finistère's 4th constituency. He joined Soyons libres in February 2018, and was appointed as its vice president. In August 2018, he stood down as leader of The Republicans in Finistère, and endorsed Philippe Paul as his successor. He left The Republicans in 2019, alongside Valérie Pécresse.

References

  1. "Maël de Calan prend la tête du département du Finistère" (in French). France Bleu. 1 July 2021.
  2. ^ "Portrait. Maël de Calan, l'homme pressé de la droite modérée". Ouest-France (in French). 30 June 2021.
  3. ^ "Maël de Calan, la droite pouponne". Libération (in French). 4 December 2017.
  4. ^ "Présidence LR : Maël de Calan, le juppéiste qui n'est pas candidat des juppéistes" (in French). RTL. 6 December 2017.
  5. "Finistère : qui est Maël de Calan, le nouveau président du département ?" (in French). France Bleu. 30 June 2021.
  6. "10 choses à savoir sur Maël de Calan, le juppéiste qui défie Wauquiez". Le Nouvel Obs (in French). 5 September 2017.
  7. "Maël de Calan au bureau politique de l'UMP". Ouest-France (in French). 10 April 2013.
  8. "Les Républicains. Sans surprise Maël de Calan élu président finistérien". Le Télégramme (in French). 1 February 2016.
  9. "Départementales 2021. Qui est Maël de Calan, le futur président du Finistère" (in French). France Info. 28 June 2021.
  10. "Présidence LR : une défaite sans appel pour Maël de Calan" (in French). France Info. 11 December 2017.
  11. "Résultats législatives Finistère: L'espoir de la droite Maël de Calan battu par une éleveuse de 26 ans". 20 minutes (in French). 18 July 2017.
  12. "Florence Portelli et Maël de Calan rejoignent Valérie Pécresse à Libres!". Le Figaro (in French). 16 February 2018.
  13. "Les Républicains. Maël de Calan quitte la présidence dans le Finistère". Ouest-France (in French). 1 August 2018.
  14. "Finistère. Maël de Calan quitte Les Républicains". Ouest-France (in French). 1 August 2018.
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