Jean Lassalle

Jean Lassalle
Lassalle in 2017
Member of the National Assembly
for Pyrénées-Atlantiques's 4th constituency
In office
16 June 2002 – 21 June 2022
Preceded byMichel Inchauspé
Succeeded byIñaki Echaniz
Mayor of Lourdios-Ichère
In office
26 March 1977 – 16 July 2017
Personal details
Born (1955-05-03) 3 May 1955 (age 69)
Lourdios-Ichère, France
Political partyRésistons! [fr] (2016–present)
Other political
affiliations
Union for French Democracy (until 2007)
Democratic Movement (2007–2016)

Jean Lassalle (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ lasal]; Occitan: Jan de Lassala Occitan pronunciation: [ˈd͡ʒan lasala]; born 3 May 1955) is a French politician who represented the 4th constituency of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in the National Assembly from 2002 to 2022. A former member of the Democratic Movement (MoDem), he was a candidate in the 2017 presidential election, in which he received 435,301 votes (1.21%). Lassalle ran under the banner of Résistons! [fr] (RES), a party he founded and has led since he left the MoDem in 2016. In the 2022 presidential election he received 1.3 million votes constituting over 3% of those cast.