Mayor of and Senator for the department since 2014, Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne has also been a Councillor for the Yonne department since 2011. Since 1996, he has been involved in the Young Republicans Movement and was elected to the council of ’ 4th district under the Démocratie Libérale party at the age of 24. After graduating from the Institute of Political Studies in , the Ecole Spéciale Militaire of Saint-Cyr and the ESSEC Business School in Paris, he started his career with IBM before joining Jean-François Copé’s team in his various ministerial offices from 2002 to 2007 (Minister of State for Relations with Parliament, Minister Delegate for the Interior and Budget Minister). From 2007 to 2014, he was Deputy Secretary-General of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) group within the National Assembly. He was national secretary for trade and small-scale industry with the Les Républicains party and President of the Fédération Les Républicains for the Yonne department until March 2017 when he resigned from both positions. He offered his support to Alain Juppé during the right and centre presidential primaries and then announced his support for Emmanual Macron in March 2017 stating “the candidate from the right – François Fillon – has taken a stand so I will take back my freedom”. He was the first Les Républicains MP to announce his support for the En Marche! candidate. In the Senate, he is affiliated to the Les Républicains group and sits on the Social Affairs Committee where he is a rapporteur for the “El Khomri” law. He is Deputy President of the -West Africa Friendship Group for the Côte d’Ivoire.

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