1. Thierry Mariani previously served as Minister in charge of Transport under the Minister of Ecology, Sustainable development, Transport and Housing from 2010 to 2012.
19 Facts About Thierry Mariani
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Thierry Mariani was born on 8 August 1958 in Orange.
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Thierry Mariani went to school in Avignon, then Aix-en-Provence, before he attended higher education in Paris.
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Thierry Mariani started a career in politics in 1976, alongside Nicolas Sarkozy.
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Thierry Mariani held the mayorship of Valreas, the city where he grew up, from 1989 to 2005.
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Thierry Mariani was elected to the General Council of Vaucluse for the canton of Valreas from 1988 to 2001 and served as one of its vice presidents for the last nine years of his tenure.
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Thierry Mariani was a regional councillor of Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur from 1992 to 1993 and again from 2004 to 2015.
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Thierry Mariani has been a member of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe and an observer of the Organization of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation.
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Ahead of the 2017 presidential election, Thierry Mariani endorsed former Prime Minister Francois Fillon's presidential bid.
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In 2015, Thierry Mariani prepared the Council of Europe's report on Chinese migration to Europe, in which he raised "human rights concerns with regard to trafficking and smuggling rings, the lack of legal protection, and the poor work conditions these immigrants often face".
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From 2012 to 2017, Thierry Mariani was a member of the French delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.
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Thierry Mariani was chosen to lead the National Rally list in the 2021 regional election in Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, where he challenged Renaud Muselier's presidency over the regional council.
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Thierry Mariani has personal relations with the Aliyev family; he has repeatedly spoken alongside Mehriban Aliyeva, Azerbaijan's First Lady, at several Azerbaijani-organised events in France.
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Thierry Mariani was one of the key persons of the Azerbaijani Laundromat.
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In July 2015, Thierry Mariani, accompanied by Russian officials, made a trip to Crimea which was annexed by Russia in 2014.
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In November 2018, Thierry Mariani traveled to Donetsk to act as an observer in the general elections in the Donetsk People's Republic and Luhansk People's Republic.
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Thierry Mariani is suspected of corruption, breach of trust and money laundering as well as influence peddling, since benefits, suspicious financial transactions and travels could have been possible compensation for positions favorable to the Kremlin.
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Between November 2015 and November 2017, Thierry Mariani traveled to Syria five times, for the purpose of meeting with Bashar al-Assad.
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Thierry Mariani has not supported Taiwan's claim of being the true Republic of China, the East Turkestan independence movement, or the Tibetan independence movement.