Mélanie Disdier
Mélanie Disdier | |
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| Born | Mélanie Disdier 27 January 1974 |
| Nationality | French |
| Political party | National Rally (until 2008) Party of France (2008-2010) National Rally (since 2010) |
Mélanie Disdier is a French politician. She has served as an elected municipal councilor in Caudry since 2003 and a regional councillor of Nord-Pas-de-Calais since 2015. She was elected Member of the European Parliament (MEP) during the 2024 European Parliament elections in France. She is a member of the National Rally.
Biography[edit]
By profession a shopkeeper, she succeeded her father, Jacques Disdier, on the Caudry municipal council after his resignation in her favor. Following the 2004 regional elections, Mélanie Disdier herself joined the Nord-Pas-de-Calais regional council, where she served until 2010.
She was nominated by the National Front for the 2007 legislative elections in the eighteenth constituency of Nord, but was defeated in the first round against the incumbent deputy François-Xavier Villain and the Socialist candidate Brigitte Douay, receiving 6.17% of the votes.
Subsequently, Mélanie Disdier participated in three municipal elections in Caudry (in 2008, 2014, and 2020).
In 2008, like her father, she chose to support the dissident list of Carl Lang in the European elections of 2009. She then joined the Party of France but distanced herself from Carl Lang by the end of 2009, before rejoining the National Front in 2010.
She regained a seat on the Hauts-de-France regional council following the 2015 regional elections, elected on the list led by Marine Le Pen. She was re-elected in the 2021 regional elections.
In the 2017 legislative elections, she was eliminated in the first round in the eighteenth constituency of Nord with 24.33% of the votes. Five years later, she led in the first round against the incumbent deputy (and former mayor of Caudry), Guy Bricout. She was narrowly defeated in the second round, with him winning with 50.58% of the votes.
In 2024, she was sixth on the National Rally (RN) list for the European elections, which allowed her to be elected as a Member of the European Parliament. This list obtained 31.37% of the votes and 30 seats out of 81 to be filled in France.