Philippe Olivier

Versions of names: Филипп Оливье
France

Philippe Olivier is a French politician who was elected as a Member of the European Parliament in 2019. Among other committees, he is a member of the Delegation for relations with the Pan-African Parliament and the Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly.

A member of the Rassemblement National (RN) / National Rally (former National Front) from 1979, Olivier was an influential executive in the 1990s. In 1998 he joined Bruno Mégret 's National Republican Movement (MNR) when the RN split. After the failure of the MNR, he moved closer to his old party. From the mid-2000s to the 2012 presidential election, he was an adviser to his sister-in-law Marine Le Pen. Then, distancing himself from it, he ran between 2012 and 2015 in several local elections with the support of Nicolas Dupont-Aignan. He became an adviser to Marine Le Pen again in 2015 and joined the RN again in 2016. He was a Regional Councillor for Île-de-France from 1992 to 2004, Municipal Councillor for Maisons-Alfort from 1995 to 2001 and then for Draveil from 2014 to 2016.

Missions

International experts at the 2020 All-Russian Voting in Crimea

identified

Rassemblement National (RN) / National Rally (former National Front)

Member of the EU-Parliament

Corresponding elections

illegitimate
In order to have a possibility to stay in power until 2036, Russian President Vladimir Putin decided, in January 2020, to change the Constitution of the Russian Federation and legitimise its change through the “all-Russian voting”. The overwhelming majority of the world’s nations does not recognise Russia’s annexation of Ukraine’s Autonomous Republic of Crimea in 2014 and international institutions such as the OSCE ODIHR consider Russian elections held in Crimea as illegitimate.