Hervé Novelli
Hervé Novelli (born 6 March 1949 in
Paris) is a French politician of Italian origin, and a past member of the
UDF group. He was a deputé in the
Assemblée Nationale for the
Indre-et-Loire département from 2002 to 2007, having previously been a député from 1993–1997. He has also served as a member of the
European Parliament from 1999 to 2002 and as vice-president of the Indre et Loire local government (''conseil général'') from 1998 to 2001. He is also mayor of
Richelieu since 2001. In June 2007, he became a member of the cabinet of
Nicolas Sarkozy as an undersecretary for business and foreign trade (''secrétaire d’Etat chargé des Entreprises et du Commerce extérieur''). He was from March 2008 to 13 November 2010 an undersecretary for commerce, craftsmanship, small and medium businesses, tourism and services (''secrétaire d’Etat chargé du commerce, de l’artisanat, des petites et moyennes entreprises, du tourisme et des services'') in the cabinet of
Nicolas Sarkozy. In March 2006, he has created the association ''Les Réformateurs''.
His political history is that of a conservative politician moving to the center ground. He was, from the 1960s to 1980s a member of various extreme right parties including
Occident, the
Parti des forces nouvelles, the
National Front, etc., before joining the conservative
National Centre of Independents and Peasants and then the centrist
Parti Républicain, a component of UDF. He was general secretary from 1990 to 1993, then member of the ''bureau exécutif'' of the Parti Républicain.
Professionally, he was CEO of ''établissements Janton'', from 1982 to 2006, and ''chargé de mission'' for the French steel industry (''Chargé de mission pour la chambre syndicale de la sidérurgie française'')
from 1977 to 1986.
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