Jean-François Copé
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| Jean-François Copé | |
 Photo by David Mendiboure - Service photo de Matignon |
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| Assumed office 26 June 2002 |
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| Preceded by | Nicole Bricq |
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Minister of the Budget
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| In office 31 May 2005 – 18 May 2007 |
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| Preceded by | Dominique Bussereau |
| Succeeded by | Eric Woerth |
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Mayor of Meaux
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| In office 1995 – 2002 |
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| Preceded by | Jean Lion |
| Succeeded by | Ange Anziani |
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Mayor of Meaux
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| Assumed office 2005 |
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| Preceded by | Ange Anziani |
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| Born | 5 May 1965 Boulogne-Billancourt, Seine-et-Marne |
| Nationality | French |
| Political party | Union for a Popular Movement |
| Profession | Economist |
| Website | http://www.generationfrance.fr/ |
Jean-François Copé (born 5 May 1964) is a French politician. He is the current President of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) Group in the French National Assembly and Mayor of Meaux in Seine-et-Marne. Until May 18, 2007, he was Minister of the Budget in the government of Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin.
[edit] Education and early career
Copé was born in Boulogne-Billancourt. He was an ENA student from 1987 to 1989 before graduating in the Liberté-Égalité-Fraternité promotion. He was involved in several business and finance seminaries in the United States and worked from 1989 to 1991 at Dexia.
[edit] Political functions
After serving in various political roles in the RPR and the Balladur government, he became spokesperson for the government of Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin in 2002. On November 24, 2004, he became Minister of the Budget and spokesperson for the government in the Raffarin III government; he was renewed in this function in the following Villepin government. Following the 2007 parliamentary election, he became leader of the UMP parliamentary group in the 13th Legislature.
He is Mayor of Meaux at 35, elected in 1995, 2001, and 2008. He was also regional councillor of Ile-de-France from 1998 to 2007 and was list leader of the UMP-UDF in Ile-de-France in the 2004 regional elections.
In 1995, he became deputy of the 5th constituency of Seine-et-Marne following the nomination of the incumbent to the Juppé government. However, he was defeated in 1997 by a Socialist candidate in a difficult RPR-PS-FN three-way second round race. In 2002, he was elected in the 6th constituency. He was re-elected there by the first round in 2007.
From 2002 to 2005 he was replaced as Mayor of Meaux by Ange Anziani, but became mayor once again in 2005 following the resignation of Anziani.
