Nicolas Ray

In 2001, Ray appeared on the list of outgoing mayor Joseph Bléthon at the Cusset Municipal Council. He joined the UMP in 2003.^[4]

Ray has been a municipal councillor of Bellerive-sur-Allier since 2014.

In 2017, Ray was the substitute of the (LR) candidate Gabriel Maquin for Allier's 3rd constituency.^[5]

On 3 April 2022 Ray announced, in Gannat, his candidacy for the legislative elections, again in Allier's 3rd constituency.^[6]

Ray was elected on 19 June 2022, with the Les Républicains label, against Bénédicte Peyrol, the outgoing deputy (LREM). He came first in 87 of the 88 municipalities in the constituency.^[4]

In the run-up to the Republicans’ 2022 convention, Ray endorsed Éric Ciotti as the party's chairman.^[7]

• His page on the site of the National Assembly

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