Christian Girard (; born 7 May 1952) is a French politician who has represented the 1st constituency of the

Alpes-de-Haute-Provence Alpes-de-Haute-Provence (sometimes abbreviated as AHP; ; ; ), formerly until 1970 known as Basses-Alpes (, ), is a department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region of France, bordering Alpes-Maritimes and Italy to the east, Var to the sou ...

department in the

National Assembly In politics, a national assembly is either a unicameral legislature, the lower house of a bicameral legislature, or both houses of a bicameral legislature together. In the English language it generally means "an assembly composed of the repr ...

since

2022 The year began with another wave in the COVID-19 pandemic, with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant, Omicron spreading rapidly and becoming the dominant variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus worldwide. Tracking a decrease in cases and deaths, 2022 saw ...

. A member of the

National Rally The National Rally (, , RN), known as the National Front from 1972 to 2018 (, , FN), is a French far-right politics, far-right political party, described as right-wing populist and French nationalism, nationalist. It is the single largest Nat ...

(RN), he has also held a seat in the

Regional Council of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur The Regional Council of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur (, ) is the deliberative assembly of the French region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur. The regional council is made up of 123 regional councillors elected for 6 years by direct universal suffrage ...

since

2021 Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...

. In Parliament, Girard sits on the Committee on National Defence and the Armed Forces. In the 2017 legislative election, he ran for the National Assembly in

Alpes-de-Haute-Provence's 2nd constituency The 2nd constituency of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence is a French legislative constituency in the southeastern Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department. Like all constituencies, it elects one deputy via the two-round voting system. Since 2022, its deput ...

, placing third.Grégoire Bézie (20 June 2022)
"Législatives 2022. Christian Girard, leader RN des Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, député à 70 ans"
''france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr'' (in French). In

, Girard, who has been departmental party leader since 2018, unsuccessfully ran for the Departmental Council of

in the canton of Manosque-1.

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1952 births Living people Deputies of the 16th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic Deputies of the 17th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic Members of Parliament for Alpes-de-Haute-Provence National Rally politicians People from Manosque Members of the Regional Council of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur {{France-politician-FN-stub

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