Marielle de Sarnez

Marielle de Sarnez was a French politician of the centrist Democratic Movement party (MoDem). She was a member of the European Parliament from 1999 to 2017, when she became Minister for European Affairs in the government of Prime Minister Édouard Philippe in May 2017. She resigned after a month due to a scandal involving alleged payment for work she did not perform, but was elected a few days later to represent the Paris 11th constituency in the National Assembly on the center-right La République En Marche! slate. She was a committed Europeanist as well as centrist, pushing MoDem to resist currents on each end of the political spectrum. She was a longtime collaborator with MoDem President and three-time candidate for the French Presidency, François Bayrou.