16 Facts About Jean-Claude Gaudin

Jean-Claude Gaudin is a French politician for The Republicans.

Jean-Claude Gaudin served as the Mayor of Marseille from 1995 to 2020.

Jean-Claude Gaudin was a member of the National Assembly of France from Bouches-du-Rhone from 1978 to 1989 and has been a member of the French Senate from 1989 to 1995 and again from 1998.

Jean-Claude Gaudin was born on 8 October 1939 in Mazargues, a neighbourhood of the 9th arrondissement in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhone, France.

Jean-Claude Gaudin's father was a mason and his mother, as an espadrille-maker.

Jean-Claude Gaudin was elected in a local election and became one of the youngest members of the town council of Marseille.

Jean-Claude Gaudin then became president of the Union for French Democracy group to the French National Assembly.

Jean-Claude Gaudin then had to face the growing power of Jean-Marie Le Pen and the Front National.

Jean-Claude Gaudin was re-elected president of the regional council on 27 March 1992.

In 1983, Gaudin tried to unseat Gaston Defferre as Mayor of Marseille, and lost for a handful of votes.

In 1995, Jean-Claude Gaudin stood for the post of Mayor along with maintaining his position as a senator.

Jean-Claude Gaudin won with an absolute majority of 55 City council men out of 101 and was installed as Mayor of Marseille on 25 June 1995.

Jean-Claude Gaudin was re-elected Mayor of Marseilles again on 25 March 2001 as well as 16 March 2008, and president of the Urban Community Marseilles Provence Metropole on 11 April.

On 3 October 2001, Jean-Claude Gaudin was re-elected as Vice-President of the Senate for a second time.

In 2004, Jean-Claude Gaudin was interim president of the UMP after Alain Juppe stepped down and before Nicolas Sarkozy was elected.

On 26 September 2016, Jean-Claude Gaudin was awarded the Plaque rank of the Order of the Aztec Eagle by the then president of Mexico, Enrique Pena Nieto.