Bruno Mégret

Bruno Mégret ( born April 4, 1949 in Paris ) is a French right-wing politician. He was the General Secretary of the National Front (FN ) and is the founder of the Mouvement national républicain (MNR ).

Life

Megret studied at the École Polytechnique and the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées.

After he had met in 1985 to Le Pen's FN, he entered in 1986 with the election to the National Assembly for the department of Isère successfully. From 1989 to 1999 he had a mandate for the European Parliament. He organized Le Pen's election campaigns and was délégué général for the FN. After a disagreement over the future strategy of the FN and personal differences with Le Pen, he joined in December 1998 out of the FN and founded the MNR.

In 2002, he stepped up to the presidential elections, but got only 2.33% of the vote. In the next presidential election in 2007, he no longer went to and recommended the election Le Pen supporters of the MNR

In 2007 he was sentenced by a court in Aix -en- Provence to a suspended sentence of 8 months, 8,000 euro fine and 1 year of ineligibility for embezzlement of public funds. In order to get the necessary support signatures of elected representatives for his presidential candidacy in 2002, he had sent out in November and December 2001 thousands of letters over the mayoralty of the city of Vitrolles in which his wife Catherine Mégret was mayor. In this case, a loss of 75,000 euros, which was spent on the postage was.

He resigned on 20 May 2008 by all political offices.