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Florence Portelli
Mayor of Taverny
Assumed office
4 April 2014
Regional Councillor of Île-de-France
Assumed office
18 December 2015
Personal details
Born (1978-03-23) 23 March 1978 (age 46)
Argenteuil, France
Political party The Republicans (2015–2019, since 2021)
Other political
affiliations		 Union for a Popular Movement (Before 2015)
Alma mater Panthéon-Assas University

Florence Portelli (born 23 March 1978 in Argenteuil) is a French politician who has been serving as Mayor of Taverny since 2014. She has also been a regional councillor of Île-de-France since 2015.

A longtime member of The Republicans, Portelli served as François Fillon's spokeswoman during his presidential election campaign in 2017. She was a candidate for the presidency of The Republicans that year.

Early life and education

Portelli is the daughter of senator Hugues Portelli and Marie Bosi. She enrolled at the Panthéon-Assas University where she graduated with a M.A. in public law of the Sorbonne Law School and, later, with a degree of Paris Institute of Criminology. [1]

Political career

In 2014, Portelli was elected Mayor of Taverny. [2] [3] As part of the campaign led by Valérie Pécresse, she became regional councillor of Île-de-France in the 2015 elections. [1]

In 2015, Portelli was appointed as member of the Republicans' political bureau by its chairman Nicolas Sarkozy [4] and became the party's national spokesperson on cultural affairs. [5]

Having supported François Fillon during the 2012 leadership election, Portelli was selected as spokesperson for his 2017 presidential campaign, [6] and later as The Republicans' campaign spokeswoman for the 2017 French legislative election, in the team led by François Baroin. [7] [8]

Ahead of the Republicans' 2017 leadership elections, Portelli declared her candidacy on 29 August 2017, [9] arguing that she wanted to work "for the right to recover its pride", to "return to activists the place that they should have in the party", and "a refoundation, a democratized functioning, a radical change to statutes and clarification of the ideological line of the party". [10] She excludes any possibility of cooperating with the extreme right, argues for the need to "reinforce" immigration control, and supports the definitive exclusion of LR members of " The Constructives", [11] saying they had "excluded themselves", but invited those who hoped that its creation would propel the right to reform to "to return to the fold," believing them mistaken. [1] In the final vote, she lost against Laurent Wauquiez. [12]

In February 2018, Portelli was appointed General secretary of " Libres !", a movement founded by Valérie Pécresse and affiliated with the Republicans. [13]

In 2023, the Republicans' chairman Éric Ciotti appointed Portelli as member of his shadow cabinet and put her in charge of cultural affairs. [14]

Personal life

Portelli has been playing piano since the age of six and is an avid jazz lover. [7] In 2016, she was elected President of the Orchestre national d'Île-de-France, a French symphony orchestra [15]

References

  1. ^ a b c Benjamin Pierret (30 August 2017). "Les Républicains : qui est Florence Portelli, candidate à la présidence du parti ?". RTL. Retrieved 27 October 2017.
  2. ^ "Taverny : Portelli, la plus jeune". Le Parisien. 4 April 2014. Retrieved 22 October 2017.
  3. ^ Daniel Chollet (22 April 2014). "Florence Portelli : "j'étais fascinée par Philippe Séguin"". La Gazette du Val-d'Oise. Archived from the original on 16 September 2017. Retrieved 31 August 2017..
  4. ^ "Florence Portelli entre au bureau national de l'UMP". Le Parisien. 20 May 2015. Retrieved 31 August 2017..
  5. ^ "Florence Portelli (LR) nommée secrétaire nationale à la culture". Le Parisien. 10 September 2015. Archived from the original on 31 August 2017. Retrieved 7 August 2017..
  6. ^ "François Fillon : une victoire grâce à eux !". France Culture. 27 November 2016. Retrieved 31 August 2017.
  7. ^ a b Diane Malosse (8 August 2017). "Pianiste, snipeuse et filloniste : Florence Portelli, future candidate à la tête de LR ?". L'Obs. Retrieved 31 August 2017.
  8. ^ Sophie Louet, Emile Picy, Brian Love and Gerard Bon (January 26, 2017), French candidate Fillon's lawyer says he confident, but supporters worry Reuters.
  9. ^ "Florence Portelli candidate à la présidence des Républicains". Le Monde. Agence France-Presse. 29 August 2017. Retrieved 21 October 2017.
  10. ^ Emmanuel Galiero (29 August 2017). "Florence Portelli : " Je suis candidate à la présidence des Républicains "". Le Figaro. Retrieved 15 October 2017.
  11. ^ Lucie Soullier (11 October 2017). "Présidence de LR : Wauquiez, Portelli et de Calan officiellement en lice". Le Monde. Retrieved 27 October 2017.
  12. ^ Anne-Sylvaine Chassany (January 15, 2018), Alain Juppé quits French Republicans party after 40 years  Financial Times.
  13. ^ Vigogne, Ludovic (15 February 2018). "Valérie Pécresse dote Libres! d'un organigramme". L'Opinion.
  14. ^ Christine Ollivier (13 May 2023), EXCLUSIF. Éric Ciotti dévoile son contre-gouvernement Le Journal du Dimanche.
  15. ^ Alexandre Sulzer (31 August 2017). "Florence Portelli candidate à la présidence des Républicains". L'Express. Agence France-Presse. Retrieved 29 October 2017.

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