Marie-Jo Zimmermann
Marie-Jo Zimmermann (born April 29, 1951 in Creutzwald , Moselle department ) is a French politician ( RPR , UMP , Les Républicains until 2019). She was a member of the National Assembly from 1998 to 2017.
life and career
In the 1986 parliamentary elections, she stood for the first time for the Gaullist Rassemblement pour la République (RPR), but without success. From 1989 to 2002 Zimmermann was represented on the Metz municipal council. She was elected to the French National Assembly in 1998 as a member of the Metz III constituency, of which she was a member for four legislative terms until 2017. She was also a member of the Lorraine Regional Council from 1998 to 2009 . As Vice President of the Regional Council, she was responsible for the Lycées from 2001 . In 2002, the RPR merged with the center-right rallying party Union pour un mouvement populaire (UMP).
In the mayoral election of the city of Metz in 2008, she lost to the socialist Dominique Gros , in the second ballot she came in third place with 24.3% of the vote, behind Gros and incumbent Jean-Marie Rausch , who ran as an independent. In the 2014 local elections, Zimmermann was again a candidate for mayor, this time not only from her own party, but also from UDI and MoDem . She was able to increase her result in the second ballot to 41.1%, but was again subject to Dominique Gros.
In the 2017 parliamentary election, she lost her constituency with 48.8 percent in the runoff election against Richard Lioger from the La République en Marche party . In March 2019, she resigned from her party (which had since been renamed Les Républicains ). In the 2019 European elections , she ran for fourth place on the list of the national conservative party Debout la France , which, however, failed because it entered the EU Parliament.
Web links
- Official website of Marie-Jo Zimmermann
- Marie-Jo Zimmermann on the website of the French National Assembly for the 13th legislative period (French)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Carpenter, Marie-Jo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French politician (UMP), member of the National Assembly |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 29, 1951 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Creutzwald |