David Cormand

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David Cormand (2016)

David Cormand (born November 30, 1974 in Mont-Saint-Aignan , Seine-Maritime ) is a French politician ( EELV ). Since 2016, Cormand has been Secretary General of the French Europe Écologie Les Verts . In the course of the European elections in 2019 he won a mandate and has since been a member of the ninth European Parliament as part of the Greens / EFA group .

Life

Youth and education

David Cormand was born on November 30, 1974 in the municipality of Mont-Saint-Aignan, the son of two teachers. He attended the Collège du Cèdre in Canteleu , then the Lycée de la Vallée du Cailly in Déville-lès-Rouen . After studying history at the University of Rouen , he worked in various professions, including ski instructor, waiter and theater actor.

Political commitment

Cormand (right) in a discussion with the Green candidate for the National Assembly Vicent Jeudy (2018)

David Cormand joined what was then Les Verts in 1991 . In 2001 Cormand was elected to the city council in Canteleu, in 2008 and 2014 he was re-elected for it.

In the regional elections in 2004, he initially won no mandate for the regional council of Haute-Normandie . However, after Regional Councilor Jean-Paul Lecoq was elected to the National Assembly in 2007, Cormand moved up. In 2010 he directly won a mandate for the regional council. As part of the restructuring of the French regions in 2015, the regional councils of Haute-Normandie and Basse-Normandie were merged, Cormand received no mandate during the merger and has not been represented since then.

Since the merger of Les Verts and Europe Écologie, Cormand has been a member of the party's executive committee. After the resignation of Emmanuelle Cosse, who had been appointed to the government, he became Interim Secretary General on February 11, 2016. On June 11, 2016, he was elected national secretary for three years at the party's federal congress in Pantin.

In the 2017 elections to the French National Assembly , he ran in the 4th district of Seine-Maritime, and came seventh in the first round with 2.3 percent of the vote.

In 2019 his party nominated him for the electoral list of the 2019 European elections . It received 5th place on the joint list of Europe Écologie-Les Verts (EELV), Alliance écologiste indépendante (AEI) and Régions et peuples solidaires . The joint list won 13.43 percent, 13 of the 79 French mandates, including Corman. Since then he has been a member of the ninth European Parliament and joined the Greens / EFA group . For his group he is a member of the Committee on Budgets and the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection .

Private

He has a daughter who was born in 2008 from a previous marriage. He's an atheist.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mael Thierry: 10 choses à savoir sur David Cormand, ex-chef india et nouveau patron d'EELV. In: Nouvelobs.com. June 11, 2016, accessed July 5, 2019 (French).
  2. ↑ a b Rachid Laïreche: David Cormand, un dernier Vert. In: La Liberation. June 9, 2016, accessed July 5, 2019 (French).
  3. ↑ Lucien Devôge: Du théâtre à la politique, portrait de David Cormand, nouveau patron d'EELV. In: Tendance Ouest. February 12, 2016, accessed July 5, 2019 (French).
  4. ↑ Seine-Maritime - 4th circonscription: List des résultats - Elections législatives 2017 - Assemblée nationale. Retrieved July 5, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Home | David CORMAND | MPs | European Parliament. Retrieved July 5, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Cormand, David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French politician (EELV), MEP
DATE OF BIRTH November 30, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Mont-Saint-Aignan , Seine-Maritime