Bernard Deflesselles

Deflesselles has served as a regional councillor of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur since 1992. He was one of the regional council's vice presidents from 2015 to 2017. In 1999, Deflesselles was elected to Parliament in a by-election in Bouches-du-Rhône's 9th constituency. Since 2020, he has also been a municipal councillor of La Ciotat. He previously was a municipal councillor of Aubagne from 1995 to 2001.

In Parliament, Deflesselles serves on the Committee on Foreign Affairs. He is also vice president of the Subcommittee on European Affairs. In addition to his committee assignments, he is part of the French delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union for the Mediterranean.^[2]

In the 2016 The Republicans presidential primary, Deflesselles endorsed Jean-François Copé as the party's candidate for the office of President of France.^[3] In the 2017 The Republicans leadership election, Deflesselles endorsed Laurent Wauquiez.^[4] In March 2017, he announced he would not support presidential nominee François Fillon amid the Fillon affair.

At the Republicans’ national convention in December 2021, Desflesselles was part of the 11-member committee which oversaw the party’s selection of its candidate for the 2022 presidential elections.^[5] He is not seeking re-election in the 2022 French legislative election.^[6]