Maël de Calan

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.[1] He has been a member of the departmental council since 2015, and has served as a municipal councillor of Roscoff since 2014.[2]

Early life and career

De Calan was born in Marseille in 1980,[3] and joined the Rally for the Republic at the age of 18.[4][5] 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.[6] He later studied at HEC Paris, where he served as leader of its Union for a Popular Movement branch.[3][4] 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.[7] He was elected municipal councillor of Roscoff in 2014, and was elected member of the Departmental Council of Finistère in 2015.[2]

In 2016, de Calan was elected leader of The Republicans in Finistère.[8] Ahead of the party's 2016 presidential primary, he served as spokesperson for Alain Juppé.[9] He was a candidate for leader of The Republicans in the 2017 election, and finished third to Laurent Wauquiez and Florence Portelli.[10] In the 2017 legislative election, he was a candidate for Finistère's 4th constituency.[11] He joined Soyons libres in February 2018, and was appointed as its vice president.[12] In August 2018, he stood down as leader of The Republicans in Finistère, and endorsed Philippe Paul as his successor.[13] He left The Republicans in 2019, alongside Valérie Pécresse.[14]

References

  1. ^ "Maël de Calan prend la tête du département du Finistère" (in French). France Bleu. 1 July 2021.
  2. ^ a b "Portrait. Maël de Calan, l'homme pressé de la droite modérée". Ouest-France (in French). 30 June 2021.
  3. ^ a b "Maël de Calan, la droite pouponne". Libération (in French). 4 December 2017.
  4. ^ a b "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.