Guillaume Guérin (politician)

Guérin was born in Limoges in 1987 and joined the Union for a Popular Movement in 2004.^[2] In 2013, he was elected leader of the party in Haute-Vienne.^[3] He was appointed first deputy mayor of Limoges in 2014,^[4] and became a member of the Regional Council of Limousin the same year.^[5] He was elected member of the Regional Council of Nouvelle-Aquitaine in 2015 and succeeded Virginie Calmels as group leader of The Republicans in 2019.^[6]

In 2018, Guérin was appointed minister of rurality in the shadow cabinet of Laurent Wauquiez.^[7] In the 2014 European Parliament election, he was a candidate for member of the European Parliament in 7th position on the Union for a Popular Movement's party list in Massif-central–Centre.^[8] In the 2019 election, he was in 17th position on The Republicans' nationwide list.^[9] He is in a relationship with a niece of François Baroin.^[10]