Full Name Nicolas Bay Nationality French | Name Nicolas Bay Role French Politician | |
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Alma mater Paris West University Nanterre La Defense Education Paris West University Nanterre La Defense Similar People Louis Aliot, Florian Philippot, Marie‑Christine Arnautu, David Rachline, Bruno Gollnisch Profiles | ||
France's Nicolas Bay: EU can be reformed from within | Ezra Levant
Nicolas Bay (born December 21, 1977) is a French politician. He became General Secretary of the National Front (FN) in November 2014. The 1 July 2014, he was elected Member of the European Parliament (MEP), where he belongs to the Europe of Nations and Freedom political group since its creation the 15 June 2015. He is currently a Regional Councillor of Normandy since 21 March 2010.
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- Frances Nicolas Bay EU can be reformed from within Ezra Levant
- Marine le pen et nicolas bay en meeting rouen
- Life and career
- Personal life
- Assumed offices
- Political functions
- References
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Life and career
Bay was born in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Yvelines. He joined the National Front at 15, in 1992. He soon became the leader of the National Front's youth wing (FNJ) in the Yvelines and Ile-de-France region.
In 1998, along with Guillaume Peltier, he founded the Youth Christian Action Association (AJAC), a movement which opposed the PACS and euthanasia. It claimed around 250 members and was close to the National Republican Movement (MNR), led by Bruno Megret.
In 1998, during the FN split, he joined Bruno Mégret's National Republican Movement, first as deputy national director of the National Movement of Youth (youth branch of the MNR) and later as responsible for elections within the party. He was one of the two MNR municipal councillors elected in Sartrouville (Yvelines) in the French municipal elections, 2001 when his list won 11.3% of the votes. He was candidate in the Yvelines' 5th constituency in the 2002 elections. In the 2004 regional election he was the MNR's top candidate in Ile-de-France, winning 1.18% of the vote. As the MNR's top candidate in the Île-de-France European constituency in the 2004 European election, he won only 0.28% of the vote. He retained his seat in the Sartrouville municipal council in the 2008 local elections, but his list won only 5.2% of the vote. As a result, he is the MNR's only local councillor in French municipalities with more than 3,000 inhabitants.
Upon Mégret's resignation from the leadership of the MNR in May 2008, Bay and his allies won leadership of the party. However, due to his increasing contacts with the FN and Marine Le Pen in particular, the party council decided to remove him from the party in September 2008. Although he is not a member of the FN, instead head of a political club ('National Convergences'), he was on the FN's list (led by Marine Le Pen) in the North-West constituency in the 2009 European election.
Despite protests from within the party, he was selected to be National Front's candidate in Haute-Normandie for the 2010 regional elections.
As a member of the eurosceptic National Front, he firmly supported the United Kingdom's Brexit decision.
Personal life
He was a boy scout in the Scouts Unitaires de France.
He is a self-declared Roman Catholic, and he participated in the protests against same-sex marriage law in 2013.
He married in 2008 and has 3 children.