Laurent Saint-Martin

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

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

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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