Jean-Paul Mattei, 68, close to François Bayrou and based in his former constituency of Pyrénées-Atlantiques, was elected this Wednesday boss of MoDem deputies, succeeding Patrick Mignola beaten in the legislative elections, AFP learned from the parliamentary group. .
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He won by 36 votes against nine to his only competitor Nicolas Turquois.
The centrist group, an ally of LREM and Horizons in the majority, has 48 members, a third of whom are newly elected.
Described as "
wise and crafty at the same time
" at the MoDem, Jean-Paul Mattei, a notary by profession, was elected deputy for the first time in 2017. Five years earlier, he had been the substitute for the unsuccessful candidate François Bayrou in the legislative elections.
Firmly rooted in the center right
He was until then vice-president of the MoDem deputies, a group made up of strong free-spirited personalities, from Jean-Louis Bourlanges to Laurence Vichnievsky.
As a member of the prestigious Finance Committee, this technician has sometimes worked in a cross-partisan manner, for example with Éric Coquerel (LFI) in 2019 on a report relating to "
universal tax
".
He also chaired the State Real Estate Council.
Inserted among the young Giscardiens in 1974, Jean-Paul Mattei is firmly anchored in the center right.
Before being elected deputy, he chaired the network of notaries advising entrepreneurs, bringing together more than 250 firms very involved with SMEs and SMIs.
Originally from Corsica and from a military family, this father of two children, and grandfather four times, has always lived in Béarn.
Elected in 1989 as a municipal councilor for Ger, a town of 2000 inhabitants, he was its mayor from 2001 to 2017.
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Jean-Paul Mattei willingly puts forward his “
great sense of mediation, of conciliation which is the DNA of (his) profession
”.
And will be keen as group president to "
achieve consensus on major texts to move the country forward
", a necessity in the absence of an absolute majority for the macronists.
