Noël Mamère

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Noël Mamère
Aquitaine Regional Council for Gironde
In office 23 March 1992 – 25 October 1994
Personal details
Born	(1948-12-25) 25 December 1948 (age 75) EELV (2010–2013) Génération.s (2017–2018)
Profession	Journalist

Noël Mamère (French pronunciation:

, but left it in late September 2013.

Biography

Noël Mamère rose to fame in the 1980s as a

.

In 1992, he became president of Brice Lalonde's Ecology Generation party, from which he was expelled in 1994. He then founded "Ecology-Solidarity Convergences", of which he was president, before joining Les Verts in 1998.

In 2002, he was presidential candidate and garnered 5.25% of the votes.

On 5 June 2004, whilst mayor of Bègles, he stirred up controversy by conducting a marriage ceremony for a male homosexual couple, nine years before same-sex marriage became legal in France.^[1] The marriage was annulled by the courts on 27 July 2004.^[2] The couple appealed to the European Court of Human Rights, who ultimately upheld the annullment in 2016, but acknowledged that, by then, it was now legal for them to get married.^[3][4]

Political career

Electoral mandates

European Parliament

Member of

). Elected in 1994.

National Assembly of France

Member of the

 : 1997–2017. Elected in 1997, reelected in 2002, 2007, 2012.

Regional Council

Regional councillor of Aquitaine : 1992–1994 (Resignation) / March 1998 (Resignation). Reelected in 1998.

Municipal Council

Mayor of Bègles : 1989–2017. Reelected in 1995, 2001, 2008, 2014.

Municipal councillor of Bègles : 1989–2017. Reelected in 1995, 2001, 2008, 2014.

Urban community Council

Vice-president of the

 : 1989–2001. Reelected in 1995.

Member of the

 : 1989–2001. Reelected in 1995.

References

External links

• (in French) Official website

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