- There is a change in Colmar. After 25 years of reign, Gilbert Meyer has given way to Eric Straumann.
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- The new mayor of Colmar is very attached to his native Alsace…
Colmar changes its face. After twenty-five years of reign, Gilbert Meyer made way for Eric Straumann on Sunday in the municipal elections. Who is the deputy Les Républicains? Since his first steps in politics, he has been a fervent defender of the Alsatian identity of which he has made himself the cantor on the benches of the Assembly.
In 2001, he was elected mayor of Houssen, an agricultural town located north of Colmar. Director of a bank branch, then associate professor of economics and management, he joined the National Assembly in 2007, already winning the seat of Gilbert Meyer, outgoing LR mayor of the Haut-Rhin prefecture, who threw the sponge before the second round of municipal. Eric Straumann was re-elected to the Palais Bourbon in 2012 and 2017.
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In 2004, he also became general counselor before taking over in 2015 the presidency of the Haut-Rhin departmental council, which he would however have to cede two years later to comply with the rule on the non-cumulation of mandates.
His presidency of the department will be marked in 2016 by a lively controversy when he conditions the allocation of the RSA to seven hours of volunteer work per week for its beneficiaries.
Attachment to Alsace
Born on August 17, 1964 in Colmar, Eric Straumann has always shown his attachment to his native Alsace. In 2014, he declared, in vain, hostile to the creation of a region covering the whole of eastern France, fearing that the Alsatian identity would be diluted in this vast whole. He thus calls on Alsatians to "remain in control of their destiny".
In 2018, he fought with other parliamentarians and Alsatian personalities for the rebirth of a "united Alsace", two years after its merger with Lorraine and Champagne-Ardennes within the Grand-Est region. More than a “dry merger” of the departments of Bas-Rhin and Haut-Rhin, he pleads for the allocation to this new Alsatian community of “fully defined competences: economic, linguistic (…) by delegation from the State” .
Deputy of one of the departments most affected by the coronavirus, he asked in late March in an open letter to the Minister of Health Olivier Véran signed by a dozen other parliamentarians to authorize "on an experimental basis" the Alsatian doctors to use in particular with hydroxychloroquine in the treatment of Covid-19.
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