Laurent Saint-Martin
Member of the Regional Council of Île-de-France
Assumed office
2 July 2021
PresidentValérie Pécresse
Member of the National Assembly
for Val-de-Marne's 3rd constituency
In office
21 June 2017 – 21 June 2022
Preceded byRoger-Gérard Schwartzenberg
Succeeded byLouis Boyard
Personal details
Born (1985-06-22) 22 June 1985
Toulouse, France
Political partySocialist Party (2009–2012)
La République En Marche! (2016–present)
Alma materEDHEC Business School

Laurent Saint-Martin (born 22 June 1985) is a French politician who has been serving as head of Business France since 2022.[1]

Saint-Martin previously represented the 3rd constituency of the Val-de-Marne department in the National Assembly from 2017 to 2022.[2] A member of La République En Marche! (LREM), he has served as a regional councillor of Île-de-France since 2021.[3] Since January 2023, he has been Managing Director of Business France.

Political career

From 2009 until 2012, Saint-Martin was a member of the Socialist Party.[4] However, he was not actively involved in politics before he joined La République En Marche! in 2016.[5]

In the 2017 legislative election, Saint-Martin was elected to the National Assembly, where he represented the 3rd constituency of Val-de-Marne. He succeeded Roger-Gérard Schwartzenberg of the Radical Party of the Left. In Parliament, Saint-Martin served as a member of the Finance Committee. In addition to his committee assignments, he was part of the French-Peruvian Parliamentary Friendship Group.[6]

In late 2018, Saint-Martin was offered to join the government of Prime Minister Édouard Philippe but declined a post as Secretary of State at the Ministry of the Economy and Finance under the leadership of Bruno Le Maire.[7] In June 2019, Philippe entrusted him with a mission to reform the national system for the identification, seizure and confiscation of criminal assets.[8] From 2020, Saint-Martin served as the Parliament's lead rapporteur on the annual budget of France; he succeeded Joël Giraud.[9]

Within his party, Saint-Martin became a member of the executive board in 2019. In that capacity, he was entrusted alongside Guillaume Chiche for the party's policy planning.[10]

In early 2021, Saint-Martin emerged as the frontrunner in the race to lead the La République En Marche! campaign in Île-de-France during that year's regional elections and to potentially succeed Valérie Pécresse as President of the Regional Council of Île-de-France.[11] With only 9.62 percent of the vote, he ultimately lost against Pécresse but was elected as a regional councillor.[12]

In the 2022 legislative election, Saint-Martin ran for reelection to the National Assembly but lost his seat to Louis Boyard of La France Insoumise.

Life after politics

In 2022, Saint-Martin was appointed to head Business France.[13]

Political positions

In 2018, Saint-Martin was one of Stanislas Guerini's first supporters when the latter ran for the post of LREM leader.[14]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Tristan Quinault-Maupoil (23 November 2022), L'ex-député Marcheur Laurent Saint-Martin pressenti à la tête de Business France Le Figaro.
  2. ↑ Giorgio Leali, Peter O'Brien and Louise Guillot (23 June 2022), Who’s in and who’s out in Macronia — and what it means for the EU Politico Europe.
  3. ↑ "Elections législatives 2017". Ministry of the Interior (in French). Retrieved 19 June 2017.
  4. ↑ Manon Rescan and Audrey Tonnelier (4 January 2020), Laurent Saint-Martin, un macroniste fidèle choisi pour le budget, Le Monde.
  5. ↑ Ingrid Melander and Elizabeth Pineau (16 November 2017), French president's party hit by defections as it picks leader, Reuters.
  6. ↑ Laurent Saint-Martin, French National Assembly.
  7. ↑ Manon Rescan and Audrey Tonnelier (4 January 2020), Laurent Saint-Martin, un macroniste fidèle choisi pour le budget, Le Monde.
  8. ↑ Jean-Baptiste Jacquin (28 June 2019), Le gouvernement souhaite développer les saisies et confiscations des avoirs criminels, Le Monde.
  9. ↑ Manon Rescan and Audrey Tonnelier (4 January 2020), Laurent Saint-Martin, un macroniste fidèle choisi pour le budget, Le Monde.
  10. ↑ Val-de-Marne : le député Laurent Saint-Martin (LREM) prend du galon, Le Parisien, 24 January 2019.
  11. ↑ Loris Boichot and Mathilde Siraud (28 January 2021), Régionales : Jean-Michel Blanquer renonce définitivement à sa candidature Île-de-France, Le Figaro.
  12. ↑ Tristan Quinault-Maupoil (28 June 2021), En Île-de-France, LREM termine sous la barre des 10%, Le Figaro.
  13. ↑ Tristan Quinault-Maupoil (23 November 2022), L'ex-député Marcheur Laurent Saint-Martin pressenti à la tête de Business France Le Figaro.
  14. ↑ Manon Rescan and Audrey Tonnelier (4 January 2020), Laurent Saint-Martin, un macroniste fidèle choisi pour le budget, Le Monde.
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