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Christian Cambon

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Christian Cambon
Senator for Val-de-Marne
Assumed office
1 October 2004
Mayor of Saint-Maurice
In office
19 March 1989 – 14 October 2017
Preceded byLouis-François Manchon
Succeeded byIgor Semo
Member of the Regional Council of Île-de-France
In office
16 March 1986 – 25 September 2004
Personal details
Born (1948-03-08) 8 March 1948 (age 76)
Saint-Mandé, France
Political partyUnion for French Democracy (until 2002)
Union for a Popular Movement (2002–2015)
The Republicans (2015–present)
Alma materPanthéon-Assas University
Sciences Po

Christian Cambon (French pronunciation: [kʁistjɑ̃ kɑ̃bɔ̃]; born 8 March 1948) is a French politician of The Republicans (LR) who has represented the Val-de-Marne department in the Senate since 2004.

Early life and education

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Cambon graduated from the Paris Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po) and holds a master's degree in Public Law (Panthéon-Assas University).

Political career

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Cambon held the mayorship of Saint-Maurice, Val-de-Marne from 1989 until 2017 and was First Vice President of the Syndicat des eaux d'Île-de-France, the public drinking water service for the greater metropolitan Paris area, from 1983 to 2017.

In the Senate, Cambon served as president of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defense and the Armed Forces from 2017 to 2023. He also chairs the French-Moroccan parliamentary friendship group and the French delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly.[1]

On 24 April 2018, Cambon was among the guests invited to the state dinner hosted by US President Donald Trump in honour of President Emmanuel Macron at the White House.[2]

Other activities

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Political positions

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Following the 2023 Nigerien coup d'état, Cambon joined forces with fellow Senators Roger Karoutchi and Bruno Retailleau on an open letter to President Macron in Le Figaro, critizicing France's Africa policy and arguing that the failure of Operation Barkhane was in great part the reason why France and its economic, political and military presence have been rejected in Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger and the Central African Republic; the letter was signed by 91 other senators.[3][4]

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