| Maël de Calan | |
| Birth Date: | 1980 4, df=y |
| Birth Place: | Marseille, France |
| Occupation: | Politician |
| Alma Mater: | HEC Paris Sciences Po |
Maël de Calan, born April 30, 1980, in Marseille, is a French politician. President of the Finistère departmental council since 2021, he has been departmental councilor of the canton of Saint-Pol-de-Léon since 2015 and municipal councilor of Roscoff since 2014.
Maël de Calan graduated from Sciences Po (2003) and then from HEC Paris.[1]
Maël de Calan has been married since 2016 and is the father of two girls.
His political involvement began at Sciences Po, where he was elected president of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) section, before being appointed head of the Young UMP of Paris. He participated in Nicolas Sarkozy's presidential campaign in 2012 as rapporteur for the economics group of the presidential project.
With other thirty-somethings active within the UMP, in September 2012 he founded “La Boîte à idées” (Idea Box), a think tank belonging to the moderate part of the party, which counts within its political committee personalities such as Alain Juppé, Bruno Le Maire, Benoist Apparu, Xavier Bertrand or Édouard Philippe. The Idea Box is one of the inspirations and theorists of the Primary from the right and the center.[2]
He supports Bruno Le Maire who is running for president of the UMP at the end of 2015, facing Nicolas Sarkozy.[3]
As part of the Right and Center Primary, Maël de Calan, close to Alain Juppé, became his economic advisor and spokesperson. He will often be presented as Alain Juppé's “young card” and coordinates the writing of the candidate's program.[4]
Following the victory of François Fillon on November 27, 2016, he announced his support for the winner of the Primary. In the second round of the presidential election, facing Marine Le Pen, he called to vote for Emmanuel Macron.
President of the Alliance for Finistère and therefore leader of the departmental opposition, Maël de Calan is leading the campaign to unite the right and center pairs in the run-up to the 2021 departmental elections. The Alliance for Finistère wins then 14 of the 27 cantons of the department and therefore becomes the majority, thus tilting Finistère to the right for the first time since 1998.[5]
Maël de Calan is elected president of the Departmental Council of Finistère on Thursday July 1, 2021 during the first plenary session of the new mandate.[6] [7]