Jean-François Copé
| Jean-François Copé | |
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Copé in October 2016
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| President of the UMP | |
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In office 19 November 2012 – 15 June 2014 |
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| Preceded by | Nicolas Sarkozy |
| Succeeded by |
interim collegial leadership Alain Juppé Jean-Pierre Raffarin François Fillon |
| General Secretary of the UMP | |
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In office 17 November 2010 – 19 November 2012 |
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| Preceded by | Xavier Bertrand |
| Succeeded by | Michèle Tabarot |
| Mayor of Meaux | |
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Assumed office 1 December 2005 |
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| Preceded by | Ange Anziani |
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In office 19 June 1995 – 20 June 2002 |
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| Preceded by | Jean Lion |
| Succeeded by | Ange Anziani |
| Minister of the Budget | |
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In office 31 May 2005 – 18 May 2007 |
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| Prime Minister | Dominique de Villepin |
| Preceded by | Dominique Bussereau |
| Succeeded by | Éric Woerth |
| Member of the National Assembly for Seine-et-Marne's 6th constituency | |
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Assumed office 26 June 2002 |
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| Preceded by | Nicole Bricq |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
5 May 1964 Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France |
| Political party |
RPR (Before 2002) UMP (2002–2015) Les Républicains (2015-present) |
| Spouse(s) |
Valérie Ducuing (m. 1991; div. 2007) Nadia D'Alincourt (m. 2011) |
| Children | 4 |
| Alma mater |
Institute of Political Studies, Paris École nationale d'administration |
| Religion | Judaism (non-practicing) |
| Website | Official website |
Jean-François Copé (French: [ʒɑ̃.fʁɑ̃.swa kɔ.pe]; born 5 May 1964) is a French politician. He is Mayor of Meaux, Deputy (Député) for the 6th constituency of Seine-et-Marne, and acts as President of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) Group in the French National Assembly. He was Spokesperson for the French Government between 2002 and 2007, and assumed other tenures in the government—including Minister of the Budget—at the same time. In November 2010 he became General Secretary of the UMP. In August 2012 he announced that he would run for the presidency of the UMP, facing the former Prime Minister François Fillon.
On 19 November 2012 he was elected President of the UMP with 50.03% of votes from its members, defeating François Fillon, who asserted his own victory. He resigned from the post on 27 May 2014 following an invoices scandal and poor results for the UMP at the 2014 European elections.
Jean-François Copé was born in Boulogne-Billancourt, the son of Professor Roland Copé, a surgeon of Romanian Jewish origin, and Monique Ghanassia, of Algerian Jewish origin. His paternal grandparents were Marcu Hirs Copelovici, a physician born in Iaşi (Romania), and Gisele Lazerovici. His maternal grandparents were Ismael André Ghanassia, a lawyer in Algiers (son of Moïse Ghanassia and Djouhar Soussi, from Miliana, in Algeria), and Lise Boukhabza (granddaughter of a Tunisian rabbi).
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