Patrick Mignola

Patrick Mignola
Minister Delegate for Relations with Parliament
Incumbent
Assumed office
23 December 2024
Prime MinisterFrançois Bayrou
Preceded byNathalie Delattre
President of the Democratic Movement and affiliated democrats group in the National Assembly
In office
17 October 2018 – 21 June 2022
Preceded byMarc Fesneau
Succeeded byJean-Paul Mattei
Member of the National Assembly
for Savoie's 4th constituency
In office
21 June 2017 – 21 June 2022
Preceded byBernadette Laclais
Succeeded byJean-François Coulomme
Mayor of La Ravoire
In office
11 March 2001 – 4 September 2017
Preceded byJean Blanc
Succeeded byFrédéric Bret
Personal details
Born (1971-08-08) 8 August 1971 (age 53)
Chambéry, France
Political partyDemocratic Movement (2007–present)
Other political
affiliations		Union for French Democracy (until 2007)
Alma materSciences Po

Patrick Mignola (born 8 August 1971) is a French politician of the Democratic Movement (MoDem) who has served as Minister Delegate for Relations with Parliament in the Bayrou government since 2024. He presided over the Democratic Movement and affiliated democrats group in the National Assembly from 2018 to 2022, and represented the 4th constituency of the Savoie department in the National Assembly from 2017 to 2022.[1]

Political career

Prior to his election to the National Assembly in 2017, Mignola served as Deputy Mayor of La Ravoire from 1995 and then won the mayorship in 2001.[2] From 1998 to 2010, he was elected to the General Council of Savoie for the canton of La Ravoire. From 2016 to 2017, he also held one of the vice presidencies of the Regional Council of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes under the presidency of Laurent Wauquiez.

In Parliament, Mignola serves on the Committee on Sustainable Development and Spatial Planning. He also served as a member of the Committee on Finance (2017–2018), the Committee on Social Affairs (2017–2020) and the Committee on Cultural Affairs and Education (2018–2019). In addition to his committee assignments, he is a member of the French-Italian Parliamentary Friendship Group.[3]

When Marc Fesneau joined the government in October 2018, Mignola was elected to the presidency of the Democratic Movement and affiliated group.[4] Under his leadership, the group grew in size as members of other groups joined the MoDem group.[5]

In May 2022, Mignola – together with Stéphane Séjourné for the Renaissance and Gilles Boyer for Horizons – negotiated the agreement leading to the creation of Ensemble, a coalition of the parties forming the presidential majority, including on the financial distribution between them.[6]

In the 2022 legislative election, Mignola ran for reelection but lost his seat against Jean-François Coulomme of La France Insoumise.

Political positions

Together with Jean-Noël Barrot, Mignola proposed a law to introduce mail-in voting to facilitate voting during the public health crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic in France.[7][8]

In early 2021, Mignola proposed the introduction of proportional representation for France's nine most populated departments in the country's electoral law ahead of the 2022 legislative election.[9]

References

  1. ^ "Savoie - 4e circonscription : Résultats des législatives".
  2. ^ "Conseil communautaire".
  3. ^ Patrick Mignola French National Assembly.
  4. ^ Patrick Mignola nouveau président des députés MoDem BFM TV, 16 October 2018.
  5. ^ Mariama Darame (8 September 2020), A l’Assemblée nationale, le MoDem impose son élargissement dans la majorité Le Monde.
  6. ^ Matthieu Deprieck (12 May 2022), Occupé à Bruxelles, Stéphane Séjourné revient dans le jeu à Paris L'Opinion.
  7. ^ Pierre-Paul Bermingham (16 November 2020), France split over ‘American’ mail-in ballots for 2021 regional elections Politico Europe.
  8. ^ Proposition de loi nº 3039 visant à rétablir le vote par correspondance, 2 June 2020 National Assembly.
  9. ^ Tristan Quinault-Maupoil (10 February 2021), Proportionnelle : le MoDem dépose une proposition de loi Le Figaro.