Jacques Rey (born 17 October 1942) is a French politician of

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(LREM). He was on the council in Sevrier,

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from 1977 to 2019, serving as mayor from 2008. Aged 79, he was a

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in the

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for Haute-Savoie's 2nd constituency from January to June 2022.

Biography

Born in Sevrier,

, he was first elected to his hometown's council in 1977. He became deputy mayor in 1989, serving behind Pierre Hérisson. In 2008, when Hérisson ended his 31-year tenure to run for mayor of the departmental seat

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, Rey was elected mayor ahead of Hérisson's preferred candidate Isabelle Payen. He was also a delegate to the

Communauté d'agglomération du Grand Annecy Communauté d'agglomération du Grand Annecy is the ''communauté d'agglomération'', an intercommunal structure, centred on the city of Annecy. It is located in the Haute-Savoie department, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, southeastern Fran ...

in the area of water management. In 2019, Rey announced that he would not run for reelection the following year. He was succeeded in May by his former assistant for town planning, Bruno Lyonnaz. In January 2022, the 79-year-old entered national politics for the first time when he succeeded Frédérique Lardet as deputy in the

for Haute-Savoie's 2nd constituency; she had left to become president of Grand Annecy. In June's elections, he did not stand, with LREM instead represented by Antoine Armand.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Rey, Jacques 1942 births Living people People from Haute-Savoie Renaissance (French political party) politicians Deputies of the 15th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic Members of Parliament for Haute-Savoie Mayors of places in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes