Erwan Balanant

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Erwan Balanant (born February 21, 1971 in Lorient ) is a French politician . In 2017 he was elected to the National Assembly as a candidate for La République en Marche (REM) , but is a member of the parliamentary club of the Mouvement démocrate (MoDem).

Life

Professional career

Balanant obtained a master's degree in contemporary history from the University of Rennes and in 1997 completed a “Master of Arts in interactive multimedia” at the École nationale de création industrial in Paris . He was one of the hopes of the French high jump team, but gave up a possible career as an athlete and worked as a photographer and director with his agency La manufacture d'images .

He has worked with various artists from the music label Mercury Records and has directed music videos for Florent Pagny , Elsa Lunghini , Berry and Marc Lavoine . In 2017, Balanant, in collaboration with journalist Éloïse Bouton, produced the documentary A la rencontre des femmes oubliées for the Association Agir pour la Santé des Femmes , in which the inadequate health care of the lower social class in the Parisian slums is addressed.

Since 2010, Balanant has been the president of the Ides association , which is the elected employee representative and promotes job creation.

Political career

Balanant joined the MoDem in its founding year 2007. The following year he was elected to the Quimperlé municipal council and took over the department for communication and urban coexistence as deputy mayor.

In the regional elections in Brittany in 2010, Balanant ran as a candidate on Bruno Joncour's MoDem list in the Finistère department , but was not elected. For the 2012 presidential elections , he was the image consultant responsible for the appearance of François Bayrou , who ended up in fifth place with 9.13 percent of the vote. In the same year Balanant ran in the parliamentary elections in the eighth constituency of Finistère and received 4.38 percent of the valid votes in the first ballot.

In 2014, Balanant was the top candidate for MoDem in the local elections in Quimperlé and achieved 27.28 percent of the valid votes in the first ballot, the winner was the PS with 40.99 percent. For the runoff election, Balanant declared its collaboration with a DVD electoral list that had received 24.54 percent of the vote. The runoff election was lost with 45.93 percent of the valid votes, afterwards Balanant was the opposition leader in the local council.

In June 2015 he resigned from the party in protest against the planned political cooperation between MoDem and the “ conservative right” and at the same time spoke out against using the terms of the politically “left” or “right” spectrum, as this unambiguous assignment was not possible more is possible.

In June 2017 Balanant ran again in the parliamentary elections in the eighth constituency of Finistère, after a result of 33.42 percent in the first ballot, he was elected in the runoff election with 51.45 percent of the valid votes in the National Assembly. Although he ran for REM, he is in the parliamentary club of MoDem, with the two parties in a coalition.

In the National Assembly, Balanant belongs to various groups:

  • President (and sole member) of the " Performing Arts " working group
  • Vice President of the "Sport" working group
  • Secretary of the working group "Regional Languages ​​and Culture"
  • Member of the economic committee
  • Member of the delegation for women's rights and for the creation of equal opportunities between men and women

Web links

Remarks

  1. ^ Society for the Promotion of Women's Health
  2. ↑ Meeting the forgotten women
  3. ↑ Short for: Initiatives pour les demandeurs d'emploi par la solidarité , initiatives for job seekers through solidarity

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c M. Erwan Balanant. Assemblée nationale (National Assembly), accessed May 12, 2019 (French).
  2. ↑ a b Erwan Balanant. Biography on the MoDem website. MoDem, accessed on May 12, 2019 (French).
  3. ↑ Erwan Balanant. L'adjoint réalise sa deuxième passion. Le Télégramme, April 9, 2008, accessed on May 12, 2019 (French).
  4. ↑ Maïa Courtois: Photography: sortir de l'invisibilité les “femmes oubliées”. Politics, June 14, 2017, accessed May 12, 2019 (French).
  5. ↑ Quimperlé. L'association Ides veut s'appuyer sur les salariés. Ouest-France, September 26, 2013, accessed on May 12, 2019 (French).
  6. ↑ Quimperlé. Erwan Balanant, un proche de François Bayrou privé de délégation d'adjoint. Ouest-France, September 27, 2013, accessed on May 12, 2019 (French).
  7. ^ Résultats des élections régionales 2010. Ministère de l'intérieur (French Ministry of the Interior), accessed on May 12, 2019 (French).
  8. ^ First round of elections in France: Hollande wins, Le Pen shocks many French . In: Spiegel Online . April 23, 2012 ( spiegel.de [accessed May 12, 2019]).
  9. ^ Résultats des élections législatives 2012. Ministère de l'intérieur (French Ministry of the Interior), accessed on May 12, 2019 (French).
  10. ↑ Results of the municipal elections 2014: Quimperlé (29300 - Finistère). L'Express , accessed on May 13, 2019 (French).
  11. ↑ Quimperlé. Erwan Balanant quitte le modem. Ouest-France, June 23, 2015, accessed on May 13, 2019 (French).
  12. ↑ a b Résultats des élections législatives 2017. Ministère de l'intérieur (French Ministry of the Interior), accessed on May 13, 2019 (French).
personal data
SURNAME Balanant, Erwan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French politician
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Lorient