Thierry Mariani
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Member of Parliament Thierry Mariani MP |
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| Member of the French National Assembly for Eleventh Overseas Constituency |
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Assumed office Since June 2012 |
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| Member of the French National Assembly for 4th circumscription of Vaucluse |
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In office March 1994 – June 2012 |
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| Assembly Member for Orange, Vaucluse |
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8 August 1958 Orange, Vaucluse |
| Nationality | French |
| Political party | The Republicans |
| Occupation | Politician |
| Website | [1] |
Thierry Mariani (born 8 August 1958 in Orange, Vaucluse) is a French politician. He was Secretary of State for Transport for the Minister of Ecology, Sustainable development, Transport and Housing in the François Fillon III government (Nov. 2010-May 2012), and a member of the The Republicans (France).
Thierry Mariani was born on 8 August 1958 in Orange. He is of Italian origin, from Castellafiume. He went to school in Avignon, then Aix-en-Provence, and he attended university in Paris.
Mariani started a career in politics in 1976, alongside Nicolas Sarkozy. He was the mayor of Valréas, the city where he grew up, from 1989 to 2005. He also served as Vice-President of the general council of the Vaucluse for 13 years. He is a member of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe and an observer of the Organization of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation. Since 2009, he has served as a French Special Representative for Pakistan and Afghanistan during the Kabul elections.
In April 2011, the Union for a Popular Movement selected Mariani as its candidate in the newly created Eleventh constituency for French residents overseas (covering French citizens resident in most of Asia, the whole of Oceania, and part of Eastern Europe) for the June 2012 legislative elections.
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