| François Jolivet | |
| Office: | Member of the National Assembly for Indre's 1st constituency |
| Term Start: | 21 June 2017 |
| Predecessor: | Jean-Paul Chanteguet |
| Birth Date: | 21 March 1966 |
| Birth Place: | Lormes, France |
| Nationality: | French |
| Party: | La République En Marche! |
| Alma Mater: | University of Poitiers |
François Jolivet (born 21 March 1966) is a French politician of La République En Marche! (LREM) who was elected to the French National Assembly on 18 June 2017, representing the department of Indre.[1]
From 1995 to his election as parliamentarian in 2017, Jolivet was the mayor Saint-Maur as a member of the Union for a Popular Movement and then the Miscellaneous right.[2]
In parliament, Jolivet serves on the Finance Committee. In addition to his committee assignments, he is a member of the French-Russian Parliamentary Friendship Group and of the French delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE).[3]
In July 2019, Jolivet decided not to align with his parliamentary group's majority and became one of 52 LREM members who abstained from a vote on the French ratification of the European Union’s Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) with Canada.[4]
In early 2019, together with around twenty other LREM members, Jolivet proposed to re-establish a solidarity tax on wealth, which had been abolished the previous year.[5]
In 2021, Jolivet sponsored legislation aimed at prohibiting the use of gender-neutral language in government publications, arguing that it "blurs the message and complicates the learning of the French language."[6]
In February 2022, Jolivet went against the party line again and was one of six LREM legislators who supported the Republicans’ motion for a ban on wearing hijabs in sports competitions.[7]