Julien Odoul | |
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Member of the
National Assembly for Yonne's 3rd constituency | |
Assumed office 22 June 2022 | |
Preceded by | Michèle Crouzet |
Spokesperson of the National Rally | |
Assumed office 4 July 2021 | |
President | Marine Le Pen |
Personal details | |
Born | Paris, France | 8 May 1985
Political party | National Rally |
Julien Odoul (French pronunciation: [ʒyljɛ̃ ɔdul]; born 8 May 1985) is a French politician and model.
Julien Odoul was born in 1985 [1] in Paris. [2]
A model, he made the cover of the LGBT magazine Têtu [3] when he was 21 years old, then three years later, was on the cover of the German gentleman's magazine Gab. [4]
In politics, he joined the Socialist Party in order to support Prime Minister Laurent Fabius in 2006, then joined the Nouveau Centre in 2009. [5]
He joins the Union of Democrats and Independents (UDI). [4] Collaborator of the centrist deputy- mayor of Issy-les-Moulineaux, André Santini, [6] he works for him until 2011. [7] In 2012, he was a centrist candidate in the Val-de-Marne's 10th constituency. [8]
In 2014, he joined the National Front. [5] In 2017, Julien Odoul took over as head of the National Front Group in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, [9] then joined the party's national office in 2018. [10] In 2019, he made comments during a council meeting along with a demand that a visitor take off her hijab. The visitor who was chaperoning a school trip was the mother to one of the children. Odoul's demand and remarks was rebuffed by council members with the council president, Marie-Guite Dufay, pointing out that neither French national law nor the regional council rules prohibited people from wearing veils during meetings. [11]