Yves Jégo

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Yves Jégo (2016)

Yves Jégo (born April 17, 1961 in Besançon ) is a French politician ( RPR , UMP , UDI ). He was Mayor of Montereau-Fault-Yonne from 1995 to 2017 and a member of the National Assembly from 2002-2008 and 2009-2018

Life and political career

Jégo studied law (Maîtrise 1983) and political science ( DEA 1985) at the Université Panthéon-Assas in Paris . He then worked as a lawyer and consultant for a human resources agency. He is also the co-founder of two publishing houses and has authored several books himself.

As a member of the Gaullist party Rassemblement pour la République (RPR), he was a member of the municipal council of the small town of Montereau-Fault-Yonne in the Seine-et-Marne department from 1989 . From 1992 to 1998 he was the office manager of Jean-François Mancel , who was then President of the General Council of the Oise department . In June 1995, Jégo was elected Mayor of Montereau-Fault-Yonne. He held this office until July 2017. From June 2002 to April 2008 he represented the 3rd constituency of this department in the National Assembly . In the early 2000s, Jégo was close to the Gaullist and sovereignist movement Debout la République around Nicolas Dupont-Aignan within the UMP . When this formed an independent party in 2008, Jégo stayed in the UMP. From 2003 to 2016 he was also President of the Communauté de communes du Pays de Montereau .

From March 2008 to June 2009, he was State Secretary for Overseas Territories in the government of François Fillon (sécrétaire d'État chargé de l'Outre-Mer) . He then resumed his seat in the National Assembly, which he held until July 2018 after re-elections in 2012 and 2017. Jégo approached more and more liberal ideas and in 2009 joined the Parti radical valoisien (PRad), which at that time was still an associated party of the UMP. In the regional elections in March 2010, Jégo was the top candidate of the UMP in the Seine-et-Marne department and was elected to the regional council of Île-de-France . Together with Jean-Louis Borloo and the Parti radical, Jégo left the UMP in 2011 in contrast to the right- wing course of the party under Nicolas Sarkozy . A year later he participated in the establishment of the middle-class civil alliance Union des démocrates et indépendants (UDI). After Jean-Louis Borloo's resignation, he was acting chairman of this party alliance from April to June 2014.

In May 2017, he was one of the signatories of a statement calling on Edouard Philippe's appointment as Prime Minister to accept the outstretched hand of the new President Emmanuel Macron and work with him. Because of this stance, Macron's La République en Marche movement did not nominate any candidate against him in his constituency and he won the second ballot with 69.1% of the vote. Due to the new rules against the accumulation of offices and multiple mandates, he gave up his mayor's office in July 2017. When the Prad end of 2017 with the PRG for Mouvement radical merged (should be no longer part of the UDI), to Jégo failed to take part, but remained in UDI. Jégo was Vice President of the National Assembly from January to July 2018. On July 15, 2018, he resigned from his parliamentary mandate. However, he remained deputy mayor and councilor of Montereau-Fault-Yonne.

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