Charles-Ange Ginesy

Charles-Ange Ginesy, 2014

Charles-Ange Ginesy (born May 14, 1956 in Nice ) is a French politician ( Les Républicains ). He has been a member of the National Assembly since 2005 with interruptions .

Ginesy earned a master's degree in economics and then worked as an entrepreneur. In 1989 he moved to the municipal council of Péone in the Alpes-Maritimes department and became the first deputy mayor. In the 1997 parliamentary elections, he stood in for Christian Estrosi . In 1998 he was elected to the regional council of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region , in which he later became group leader of the Gaullists . At the local level, he became mayor of Péone in 2001, inheriting his father Charles Ginesy . In 2003 he also moved to the General Council of the Alpes-Maritimes department, becoming its vice-president the following year. Ginesy, who ran again as Estrosi's deputy in the 2002 elections, moved up to the National Assembly in 2005 for the 5th constituency of Alpes-Maritimes after he was appointed to the government. In June 2007, his tenure ended, in which he joined the UMP . Nevertheless, he returned to the National Assembly the following month because Estrosi had been appointed Minister for the French Overseas Territories . In April 2008 he gave up his mandate in favor of Estrosi, who had resigned as minister. From July 2009 to December 2010, however, he stood in for Estrosi, who was Minister of Industry at the time. In the parliamentary elections in 2012 , Ginesy ran as an independent candidate in the second constituency of Alpes-Maritimes and so returned to the National Assembly. At the end of November 2012, Ginesy was one of around 70 MEPs who, with their leader François Fillon, split off from the UMP group in parliament and founded their own group under the name R-UMP.

Individual evidence

1. ^ M. Charles-Ange Ginesy: Assemblée Nationale , assemblee-nationale.fr
2. ↑ Charles-Ange , ginesy.com
3. ↑ UMP or R-UMP? Le nouveau visage de l'Assemblée , Le nouvel Observateur