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Myard made international news when on 17 July 2012, just days before the vote on a new sexual harassment bill, male lawmakers in the National Assembly including Myard hooted and made catcalls as Housing Minister Cécile Duflot, wearing a floral dress, spoke about an architectural project. Myard told L'Express that the hoots were a way of "paying homage to this woman's beauty".[2]
On 5 April 2016, Myard announced a run in the upcoming The Republicans presidential primary;[3] he later failed to gather enough signatures to appear on the ballot.
In the 2024 legislative election, he was jointly invested as a candidate of the National Rally and The Republicans in Yvelines's 5th constituency as part of an agreement brokered by Éric Ciotti. Myard placed third, with 22.9% of the first-round vote.[4]
Political positions
In 2015 Myard visited Damascus with three fellow politicians amid the Syrian civil war, where he met with President Bashar al-Assad and other officials. Myard said he discounted the opinion that the unofficial visit was misguided, stating to be "told not to talk to the devil", but thinking "the devil says clever things".[5]
He further stated that although he was not Bashar al-Assad's "lawyer"—"I do not excuse the massacres", recognising that "the regime used chemical weapons"—he thought "with a diplomacy of morality, we no longer speak to anyone".[6] One of the trip's partakers, Socialist Gérard Bapt, who was the sole participant who refused to meet with Bashar al-Assad, stated the two others, Jean-Pierre Vial and François Zocchetto, were dissatisfied with Myard's attitude following their return to Paris.
Myard has voiced his opposition to same-sex marriage, stating "what I blame [homosexuals] for is having become a lobby, a sect, practicing intellectual terrorism".[7]
