Michèle Tabarot (born 13 October 1962) is a French politician of the Republicans who currently serves as a member of the

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. She represents the Alpes-Maritimes 9th constituency.

Early life

Tabarot is the daughter of Robert Tabarot, Knight of the National Order of Merit, who was one of the leaders of the

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, and former

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n boxing champion (nicknamed "The Rock"). Her brother Philippe Tabarot is vice-president of the General Council of

Alpes-Maritimes Alpes-Maritimes (; oc, Aups Maritims; it, Alpi Marittime, "Maritime Alps") is a department of France located in the country's southeast corner, on the Italian border and Mediterranean coast. Part of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region, it ...

and councilor of

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. Arrival of Algeria, the family Tabarot exiles in Alicante (Spain) to the independence of Algeria, and remains there until 1969, after the

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of the old ones of the

Political career

Career in local politics

Tabarot was Vice-mayor of Pierre Bachelet,

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RPR of

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from 1983 to 1995. She defeated him in the municipal elections of 1995. Since then, Tabarot has been re-elected mayor each time since the first round, in 2001 under the

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label, in 2008 under the UMP label (64.96% of votes), then in 2014 under the UMP label (50.45% of the votes). Due to the limitation of the plurality of the mandates, Tabarot resigned from her position of

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on 24 July 2017.

Member of the National Assembly

Tabarot's first time as a candidate for the National Assembly was a

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candidate in the 1997 legislative elections in the 9th constituency of Alpes-Maritimes, but she was beaten in the first round. Tabarot was elected member of Parliament on 16 June 2002, for the 12th Legislature (2002–2007), in the 9th constituency of Alpes-Maritimes. She was re-elected in the first round, on 10 June 2007 with 53.13% of the votes, defeating André Aschieri,

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and mayor of

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. From 1 July 2009 to 28 June 2012, she was a Chairperson of the

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. She was re-elected, on 17 June 2012 and she became vice-chair of the

. In the UMP's 2012 leadership election, Tabarot endorsed

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. In the Republicans' 2016 presidential primaries, Tabarot endorsed Copé as the party's candidate for the office of

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. She later served as Copé's campaign director. On 3 March 2017, in the context of the

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, she gave up supporting candidate

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LR in the

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and asked for his replacement by

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. Tabarot was re-elected in the

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. She sits on the Foreign Affairs Committee and the Committee on European Affairs. In addition to her committee assignments, she serves as Vice-President of the

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Friendship Group in

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. In the Republicans' 2017 leadership election, Tabarot endorsed

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as chairman. Following Christian Jacob's election as LR chairman, Tabarot announced her candidacy to succeed him as leader of the party's parliamentary group. In an internal vote in November 2019, she eventually came in third out of six candidates; the position went to

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instead.

Political positions

In July 2019, Tabarot voted in favor of the French ratification of the

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(CETA) with

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. In 2020, Tabarot co-authored (along with

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References

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