Marielle Gallo
Marielle Gallo in 2014
Member of the European Parliament
In office
2009–2014
ConstituencyÎle-de-France
Personal details
Born
Marielle Boullier

(1949-05-19) 19 May 1949
Lons-le-Saunier, France
Political partyUDI
Citizen and Republican Movement
SpouseMax Gallo
Alma materPanthéon-Sorbonne University
ProfessionLawyer

Marielle Gallo (born 19 May 1949) is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament elected in the 2009 European election for the Île-de-France constituency.

She is the wife of famous French historian and member of the Académie Française, Max Gallo. She ran in a Parisian constituency in the 1993 election under the colours of the Citizens' Movement. In 2007, she joined the Modern Left, allied to President Nicolas Sarkozy. She became the party's spokesperson.

European Parliament career

In the 2009 European elections, she was the fourth candidate on the Union for a Popular Movement list in the Île-de-France region, and was elected to the European Parliament, where she sits with the Group of the European People's Party. In 2012, she emerged as a proponent of intellectual property rights and online copyright protection.[1]

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