Laurent_Saint-Martin

Laurent Saint-Martin

Laurent Saint-Martin

French politician (born 1985)

Laurent Saint-Martin (born 22 June 1985) is a French politician who has been Director General of Business France since 6 January 2023.[1]

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Saint-Martin previously represented the 3rd constituency of the Val-de-Marne department in the National Assembly from 2017 to 2022 as a member of La République En Marche! (now Renaissance).[2] He has also served as a member of the Regional Council of Île-de-France since 2021.[3]

Political career

From 2009 until 2012, Saint-Martin was a member of the Socialist Party.[4] However, he was not actively involved in politics before he joined La République En Marche! in 2016.[5]

In the 2017 legislative election, Saint-Martin was elected to the National Assembly, where he represented the 3rd constituency of Val-de-Marne. He succeeded Roger-Gérard Schwartzenberg of the Radical Party of the Left. In Parliament, Saint-Martin served as a member of the Finance Committee. In addition to his committee assignments, he was part of the French-Peruvian Parliamentary Friendship Group.[6]

In late 2018, Saint-Martin was offered to join the government of Prime Minister Édouard Philippe but declined a post as Secretary of State at the Ministry of the Economy and Finance under the leadership of Bruno Le Maire.[7] In June 2019, Philippe entrusted him with a mission to reform the national system for the identification, seizure and confiscation of criminal assets.[8] From 2020, Saint-Martin served as the Parliament's lead rapporteur on the annual budget of France; he succeeded Joël Giraud.[9]

Within his party, Saint-Martin became a member of the executive board in 2019. In that capacity, he was entrusted alongside Guillaume Chiche for the party's policy planning.[10]

In early 2021, Saint-Martin emerged as the frontrunner in the race to lead the La République En Marche! campaign in Île-de-France during that year's regional elections and to potentially succeed Valérie Pécresse as President of the Regional Council of Île-de-France.[11] With only 9.62 percent of the vote, he ultimately lost against Pécresse but was elected as a regional councillor.[12]

In the 2022 legislative election, Saint-Martin ran for reelection to the National Assembly but lost his seat to Louis Boyard of La France Insoumise.

Life after politics

In 2022, Saint-Martin was appointed to head Business France, the government agency tasked with promoting French exports and foreign investments in France.[13]

Political positions

In 2018, Saint-Martin was one of Stanislas Guerini's first supporters when the latter ran for the post of LREM leader.[14]

See also

References

  1. [1]
    Tristan Quinault-Maupoil (23 November 2022), L'ex-député Marcheur Laurent Saint-Martin pressenti à la tête de Business France Le Figaro.
  2. [2]
    Giorgio Leali, Peter O'Brien and Louise Guillot (23 June 2022), Who’s in and who’s out in Macronia — and what it means for the EU Politico Europe.
  3. [3]
    "Elections législatives 2017". Ministry of the Interior (in French). Retrieved 19 June 2017.
  4. [4]
    Manon Rescan and Audrey Tonnelier (4 January 2020), Laurent Saint-Martin, un macroniste fidèle choisi pour le budget, Le Monde.
  5. [5]
    Ingrid Melander and Elizabeth Pineau (16 November 2017), French president's party hit by defections as it picks leader, Reuters.
  6. [6]
    Laurent Saint-Martin, French National Assembly.
  7. [7]
    Manon Rescan and Audrey Tonnelier (4 January 2020), Laurent Saint-Martin, un macroniste fidèle choisi pour le budget, Le Monde.
  8. [8]
    Jean-Baptiste Jacquin (28 June 2019), Le gouvernement souhaite développer les saisies et confiscations des avoirs criminels, Le Monde.
  9. [9]
    Manon Rescan and Audrey Tonnelier (4 January 2020), Laurent Saint-Martin, un macroniste fidèle choisi pour le budget, Le Monde.
  10. [10]
    Val-de-Marne : le député Laurent Saint-Martin (LREM) prend du galon, Le Parisien, 24 January 2019.
  11. [11]
    Loris Boichot and Mathilde Siraud (28 January 2021), Régionales : Jean-Michel Blanquer renonce définitivement à sa candidature Île-de-France, Le Figaro.
  12. [12]
    Tristan Quinault-Maupoil (28 June 2021), En Île-de-France, LREM termine sous la barre des 10%, Le Figaro.
  13. [13]
    Tristan Quinault-Maupoil (23 November 2022), L'ex-député Marcheur Laurent Saint-Martin pressenti à la tête de Business France Le Figaro.
  14. [14]
    Manon Rescan and Audrey Tonnelier (4 January 2020), Laurent Saint-Martin, un macroniste fidèle choisi pour le budget, Le Monde.
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