David Belliard

David Belliard (born 29 May 1978) is a French politician. He is the leader of the Green Party fraction in the Council of Paris[1]. He is running for mayor of Paris in the 2020 election[2], after winning the Green Party nomination over Julien Bayou in June 2019[3].

David Belliard
Born (1978-05-29) 29 May 1978
La Teste-de-Buch, France
NationalityFrench
EducationEDHEC Business School
OccupationPolitician
Known forEurope Ecology - The Greens nominee for Mayor of Paris in the 2020 French municipal elections.

Early life

Belliard was born 29 mai 1978 in La Teste-de-Buch[4], and was then raised in Augicourt, near Vesoul, in rural France, in a working class family. His father was a bricklayer and his mother a cleaning woman. To this day, Belliard refers to himself as a "son of proletarians"[5].

After studying in Nancy, he studied at EdHEC, a business School in Lille, borrowing money and working to finance his studies.

After a first experience as a consultant, which he describes as "inconclusive", he went to Paris in 2000 to work as a journalist for Alternatives Économiques[6], he kept working there part-time, after he was elected to the Town Concil in the 2014 municipal election[7].

Activism

David Belliard, who is openly gay, became Deputy Chief Executive of Sidaction in 2008[8].

Politics

David Belliard joined the Green Party in 2002 and he has been an active member since. He played a role in the 2009 campaign for European Parliament, and in the transformation of the "Greens" into "Europe-Écology"[9]. He was elected to the Town Council of Paris and as a Councillor for the 11th arrondissement of Paris in the 2014 election[10]. He's also a metropolitan advisor since the creation of the Metropole du Grand Paris in December 2015.

In March 2019, Belliard announced he wanted to run for mayor as the Green candidate in the 2020 municipal elections[11]. He won the nomination 1st of June 2019[12] by 49,61% of the party vote[13].

On 11 February 2020, David Belliard said he "understood the violences" of ecology activists who invaded and smashed BlackRock's headquarters in Paris[14].

Books
  • Nous ne sommes pas coupables d’être malades, avec Alix Béranger, éditions Petits matins, 2010[15]
  • Notre santé est-elle à vendre ?, éditions Textuel, 2012[16]
  • Paris, rêve de gosse, 2020[17]

Notes
  1. O'Sullivan, Feargus. "Paris's War on Cars Will Be Waged in Its Suburbs". CityLab. Retrieved 2019-12-27.
  2. "The fight to become Paris's next mayor has begun". France 24. 2018-03-26. Retrieved 2019-12-27.
  3. "David Belliard, candidat EELV à Paris : «je veux qu'Anne Hidalgo et la gauche se réunissent autour des écologistes»". www.cnews.fr (in French). Retrieved 2019-12-30.
  4. "Tout savoir sur David Belliard, candidat EELV à la mairie de Paris". www.cnews.fr (in French). Retrieved 2019-12-27.
  5. "David Belliard, "prolo, fils de prolo", un écolo à la conquête de la mairie de Paris". Nouvel Obs.
  6. Match, Paris. "David Belliard : le Paris d'un écolo pragmatique". parismatch.com (in French). Retrieved 2019-12-30.
  7. lefigaro.fr. "Paris 11eme Secteur 75011 - Résultats des municipales 2014 de la ville". Le Figaro (in French). Retrieved 2019-12-30.
  8. BFMTV. "Sidaction : où en est-on ?". BFMTV (in French). Retrieved 2019-12-30.
  9. "David Belliard, nu comme un vert". Libération.fr (in French). 2019-07-08. Retrieved 2019-12-30.
  10. "Tout savoir sur David Belliard, candidat EELV à la mairie de Paris". www.cnews.fr (in French). Retrieved 2019-12-30.
  11. JDD, Le. "David Belliard : "La perspective d'avoir un écologiste maire de Paris n'est plus un rêve"". lejdd.fr (in French). Retrieved 2019-12-30.
  12. "Municipales à Paris : David Belliard conduira la liste EELV". LExpress.fr (in French). 2019-06-01. Retrieved 2019-12-30.
  13. "Municipales : David Belliard tête de liste des écologistes à Paris". Les Echos (in French). 2019-06-01. Retrieved 2019-12-30.
  14. https://www.lefigaro.fr/politique/intrusion-chez-blackrock-david-belliard-condamne-les-violences-mais-appelle-a-comprendre-20200211
  15. Béranger, Alix, (2010). Nous ne sommes pas coupables d'être malades!. Belliard, David,, Winckler, Martin, (1955- ...).,. Paris: Les petits matins. ISBN 978-2-915879-72-8. OCLC 690169270.CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  16. Belliard, David. (2012). Notre santé est-elle à vendre? : et 25 autres questions que tout le monde se pose sur la santé. Paris: Textuel. ISBN 978-2-84597-439-5. OCLC 800527775.
  17. MAURER, PIERRE (2019-11-29). "Municipales: Anne Hidalgo gagne la bataille de Paris... dans les librairies". Le Figaro.fr (in French). Retrieved 2020-01-05.
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