Alexandre Avril

Alexandre Avril
Regional Councillor of Centre-Val de Loire
Incumbent
Assumed office
1 July 2021
Mayor of Salbris
Incumbent
Assumed office
3 July 2020
Preceded byOlivier Pavy
Personal details
Born (1992-04-19) 19 April 1992 (age 32)
Political partyUnion of the Right for the Republic (since 2024)
Other political
affiliations		The Republicans (until 2024)
RelativesJacky Avril (uncle)

Alexandre Avril (born 19 April 1992) is a French politician of the Union of the Right for the Republic (UDR). He has been a member of the Regional Council of Centre-Val de Loire since 2021,[1] and has served as mayor of Salbris since 2020.[2] Since 2024, he has served as a vice president of the UDR.[3]

Early life and career

Avril is the nephew of Jacky Avril.[4] His maternal relatives were merchants and his paternal grandfather worked as a security guard for Matra.[4] He grew up in Salbris and moved to Paris, where he studied at the École normale supérieure and HEC Paris, founded a development consulting firm for collectivities, and worked as parliamentary assistant to Socialist Party senator Jeanny Lorgeoux.[5]

Avril was elected mayor of Salbris in the 2020 municipal elections, as the lead candidate of an independent right-wing list.[6] In July 2020, he was elected president of Sologne des Rivières.[7] In the 2021 regional election in Centre-Val de Loire, he was designated as lead candidate of the Union of the Right and Centre in Loir-et-Cher,[8] and was elected to the regional council.[1] He was elected unopposed as leader of The Republicans in Loir-et-Cher in November 2023,[9] and took office in March 2024.[10][11] He defended his PhD thesis, on the philosophies of René Girard and Friedrich Nietzsche, in December 2023.[12]

Ahead of the 2024 legislative election, Avril supported Éric Ciotti's alliance with the National Rally.[13][14] In September 2024, he announced his intention to resign as leader of the Loir-et-Cher Republicans the following month, in order to join Ciotti's newly founded Union of the Right for the Republic.[11] In October 2024, he was appointed as a vice president of the UDR.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b "Voici les 77 nouveaux élus du Conseil régional de Centre-Val de Loire". La République du Centre (in French). 28 June 2021.
  2. ^ "Alexandre Avril devient maire". Le Petit Solognot (in French). 8 July 2020.
  3. ^ a b "Info JDNews - Éric Ciotti dévoile l'équipe dirigeante de l'Union des droites pour la République". Le Journal du Dimanche (in French). 2 October 2024.
  4. ^ a b "Salbris – Municipales : Alexandre Avril veut servir sa ville". Le Petit Solognot (in French). 22 November 2019.
  5. ^ "Alexandre Avril candidat à la mairie de Salbris". La Nouvelle République du Centre-Ouest (in French). 10 October 2019.
  6. ^ "Municipales 2020 : à Salbris, Alexandre Avril remporte la mairie avec 57,95% des voix" (in French). France Info. 26 June 2020.
  7. ^ "Alexandre Avril élu président". La Nouvelle République du Centre-Ouest (in French). 13 July 2020.
  8. ^ "Régionales 2021 : avec Alexandre Avril, la droite mise sur la jeunesse en Loir-et-Cher". La Nouvelle République du Centre-Ouest (in French). 20 April 2021.
  9. ^ "Loir-et-Cher : Alexandre Avril veut remettre Les Républicains au centre de l'échiquier". La Nouvelle République du Centre-Ouest (in French). 23 November 2021.
  10. ^ "Loir-et-Cher : LR se réorganise autour d'Alexandre Avril". La Nouvelle République du Centre-Ouest (in French). 5 March 2024.
  11. ^ a b "Loir-et-Cher : l'avenir de la fédération Les Républicains en question". La Nouvelle République du Centre-Ouest (in French). 25 September 2024.
  12. ^ "Salbris : Alexandre Avril, un chercheur en philosophie à la mairie". La Nouvelle République du Centre-Ouest (in French). 28 December 2023.
  13. ^ "Loir-et-Cher : Alexandre Avril sur la même longueur d'onde qu'Éric Ciotti". La Nouvelle République du Centre-Ouest (in French). 11 June 2024.
  14. ^ "Loir-et-Cher : les LR d'Alexandre Avril franchissent le Rubicon pour s'entendre avec le RN". La Nouvelle République du Centre-Ouest (in French). 12 June 2024.