Natacha Bouchart | |
Office: | Mayor of Calais |
Term Start: | 22 March 2008 |
Predecessor: | Jacky Hénin |
Office2: | Member of the Regional Council of Hauts-de-France |
Term Start2: | 1 January 2016 |
President2: | Xavier Bertrand |
Office3: | Member of the French Senate for Pas-de-Calais |
Term Start3: | 1 October 2011 |
Term End3: | 12 January 2016 |
Successor3: | Jean-François Rapin |
Birth Name: | Natacha Keuroglanian |
Birth Date: | 29 May 1963 |
Birth Place: | Lens, France |
Natacha Bouchart (born 29 May 1963) is a French politician of the Republicans (LR) and formerly Union for a Popular Movement (UMP).[1]
Bouchart was born at Lens. She has served as Mayor of Calais since 2008 and was elected to represent Pas-de-Calais in the French Senate in 2011.[2]
Ahead of the Republicans' 2016 presidential primary, Bouchart endorsed Nicolas Sarkozy as the party's candidate for the 2017 French presidential election.[3]
Ahead of the 2022 presidential elections, Bouchart publicly declared her support for incumbent Emmanuel Macron and criticized the Republicans’ candidate Valérie Pécresse.[4] [5]