Martial Saddier | |
Office: | President of the Departmental Council of Haute-Savoie |
Term Start: | 1 July 2021 |
Predecessor: | Christian Monteil |
Office1: | Member of the National Assembly for Haute-Savoie's 3rd constituency |
Term Start1: | 19 June 2002 |
Term End1: | 31 July 2021 |
Predecessor1: | Michel Meylan |
Successor1: | Christelle Petex-Levet |
Office2: | Mayor of Bonneville |
Term Start2: | 19 March 2001 |
Term End2: | 16 December 2015 |
Predecessor2: | Michel Meylan |
Successor2: | Stéphane Valli |
Birth Date: | df=y October 15, 1969 |
Birth Place: | Bonneville, France |
Party: | Liberal Democracy (until 2002) Union for a Popular Movement (2002–2015) The Republicans (2015–present) |
Martial Saddier (in French pronounced as /maʁsjal sadje/; born 15 October 1969) is a French politician who represented the 3rd constituency of the Haute-Savoie department in the National Assembly from 2002 to 2021.[1] A member of The Republicans (LR), he left Parliament after he was elected President of the Departmental Council of Haute-Savoie, in which he has held a seat since 2021 for the canton of Bonneville.[2]
He was elected as a deputy on June 16, 2002, for the XII legislature (2002–2007), representing the third constituency of Haute-Savoie, succeeding Michel Meylan. He was part of the UMP group. He was re-elected as a deputy on June 10, 2007, in the first round, with 54.78% of the votes.[3]
On June 17, 2012, he was re-elected as a deputy in the second round, obtaining 58.95% of the votes against EELV candidate Gilbert Saillet with 41.05%.[4]
On December 9, 2014, Nicolas Sarkozy, elected president of the UMP, appointed him as national secretary of the UMP in charge of industry and SMEs.[5]
He ran again in the 2017 legislative elections and won in the second round with 51.50% against La République en Marche candidate Guillaume Gibouin.[6] To comply with the law on the non-accumulation of mandates, he resigned from his position as vice-president of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes regional council.[7]
In November 2018, he was appointed as the ecology and sustainable development coordinator for the Republicans within Laurent Wauquiez's shadow cabinet.[8]
On July 1, 2021, he was elected president of the Haute-Savoie Departmental Council.[9]
He resigned from his position as deputy effective July 31, 2021, to comply with the rules on the accumulation of mandates.