Nicolas Bay

Bay was born in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Yvelines.^[1] He joined the National Front at 15, in 1992.^[2] He soon became the leader of the National Front's youth wing (FNJ) in the Yvelines and Île-de-France region.^{[citation needed]}

In 1998, along with Guillaume Peltier, he founded the Youth Christian Action Association (AJAC), a movement which opposed the PACS and euthanasia.^{[citation needed]} It claimed around 250 members and was close to the National Republican Movement (MNR), led by Bruno Mégret.^{[citation needed]}

In 1998, during the FN split, he joined Bruno Mégret's National Republican Movement, first as deputy national director of the National Movement of Youth (youth branch of the MNR) and later as responsible for elections within the party. He was one of the two MNR municipal councillors elected in Sartrouville (Yvelines) in the 2001 municipal elections when his list won 11.3% of the votes. He was candidate in the Yvelines' 5th constituency in the 2002 elections. In the 2004 regional election he was the MNR's top candidate in Île-de-France, winning 1.18% of the vote. As the MNR's top candidate in the Île-de-France European constituency in the 2004 European election, he won only 0.28% of the vote. He retained his seat in the Sartrouville municipal council in the 2008 local elections, but his list won only 5.2% of the vote. As a result, he was the MNR's only local councillor in French municipalities with more than 3,000 inhabitants.^{[citation needed]}

Upon Mégret's resignation from the leadership of the MNR in May 2008, Bay and his allies won leadership of the party. However, due to his increasing contacts with the FN and Marine Le Pen in particular, the party council decided to remove him from the party in September 2008.^{[citation needed]} Although he was not a member of the FN, instead head of a political club ('National Convergences'), he was on the FN's list (led by Marine Le Pen) in the North-West constituency in the 2009 European election.^{[citation needed]}

Despite protests from within the party, he was selected to be National Front's candidate in Upper Normandy for the 2010 regional elections.^[3]

He participated in the protests against the law that legalized same-sex marriage in 2013.^[2][4]

As a eurosceptic, he firmly defended the United Kingdom's Brexit decision.^[5]

After the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Nicolas Bay voted against a resolution to designate Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism in the context of the deliberate Russian attacks on Ukrainian civilians and civilian infrastructure.^[6]

In 2023, he was one of the 14 MEPs who voted against a resolution condemning the abduction of Tibetan children and other forced assimilation practices by China.^[7]

On 15 February 2022, French media reported that Bay had been suspended from the National Rally due to his alleged support of Le Pen's challenger Éric Zemmour. He considered these accusations unfounded. The next day, he filed a complaint and lawsuit against the RN for defamation.

On 16 February 2022, he announced his support for candidate Éric Zemmour for the presidential election and join Reconquête where he was named Vice-President.

Shortly after being elected to the European Parliament in 2024, he abandoned Reconquête and became a non-affiliated member before joining the IDL.^[8] The IDL is affiliated with the European Conservatives and Reformists Party.

He was a boy scout^[2] in the Scouts d'Europe, 1ere Mesnil Le Roi. Patrouille des Cerfs.

He is a self-declared Roman Catholic.^[2]

He married in 2008 and has 3 children.^[9]