Gilles Platret
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Preceded byChristophe Sirugue
Born19 April 1973
Saint-Rémy, France
PartyMiscellaneous right (2024–present)
Other political
affiliationsUnion for a Popular Movement (until 2015)
The Republicans (2015–2024)
affiliationsUnion for a Popular Movement (until 2015)
The Republicans (2015–2024)
Gilles Platret | |
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Platret in 2017 | |
| Mayor of Chalon-sur-Saône | |
| Assumed office 29 March 2014 | |
| Preceded by | Christophe Sirugue |
| Member of the Regional Council of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté | |
| Assumed office 4 January 2016 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 19 April 1973 Saint-Rémy, France |
| Party | Miscellaneous right (2024–present) |
| Other political affiliations | Union for a Popular Movement (until 2015) The Republicans (2015–2024) |
| Alma mater | Sciences Po Paris-Sorbonne University |
Gilles Platret (French pronunciation: [ʒil platʁɛ]; born 19 April 1973) is a French politician who has served as Mayor of Chalon-sur-Saône since 2014.[1] From 2019 to 2023, he served as a vice president of The Republicans (LR), after having been appointed a spokesperson for the party in 2017.[2][3]
Platret has been a member of the Regional Council of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté since 2016, and was the lead candidate of The Republicans in the 2021 regional election.[2] In 2017, 2022 and 2024, he unsuccessfully ran for the National Assembly in the 5th constituency of Saône-et-Loire.