Alain Chatillon
{{short description|French politician}}
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{{infobox officeholder
| name = Alain Chatillon
| office = Member of the French Senate
for Haute-Garonne
| term_start = 1 October 2008
| term_start2 = 19 March 1989
| term_end2 = 31 October 2017
| predecessor2 = Jean Ricalens
| successor2 = Étienne Thibault
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1943|03|15|df=yes}}
| nationality = French
| party = Radical Party
The Republicans
}}
Alain Chatillon ({{IPA|fr|alɛ̃ ʃatijɔ̃}}; born 15 March 1943) is a member of the Senate of France. He represents the Haute-Garonne department and is a member of the Radical Party.
Biography
After acquiring the Gerblé food group in 1972, Alain Chatillon founded the Diététique et Santé group in Revel, which later became Nutrition et Santé, France's leading manufacturer of dietary and organic foods. He co-founded and chaired the Agri Sud-Ouest competitiveness cluster from 2007 to 2014.{{cite web|access-date=7 January 2021|author=Adrien Serrière|date=27 December 2020|title=Agri Sud-Ouest Innovation, Alain Chatillon quitte la présidence|url=https://toulouse.latribune.fr/Innovation/agri-sud-ouest-labege-pole-agriculture-chatillon-segonds-fnsea-08042014|website=La Tribune}}.{{cite web|access-date=7 January 2021|author=G. B.|date=12 November 2019|title=Revel : le Territoire d'industrie sera tourné vers l'agroalimentaire|url=https://www.ladepeche.fr/2019/11/12/revel-le-territoire-dindustrie-sera-tourne-vers-lagroalimentaire,8536611.php|website=La Dépêche du Midi}}. Mayor of Revel since 1989 and regional councillor for the Midi-Pyrénées region, he was elected to the French Senate in the 2008 senatorial elections.Élections sénatoriales de 2008 – [http://www.senat.fr/senateurs/elections/2008/31/31.html Résultats] dans la Haute-Garonne, sur le site du Sénat. He was re-elected mayor in the first round, with 68.82% of the vote in the 2008 elections and 75% in 2014.
He supported Alain Juppé in the 2016 Republican presidential primary.Ludovic Vigogne, [https://www.lopinion.fr/edition/politique/primaire-a-droite-liste-premiers-soutiens-parlementaires-101334 « Primaire à droite: la liste des premiers soutiens parlementaires »], lopinion.fr, 20 avril 2016.
A member of the UMP then LR group since 2008, in 2020 he joined Les Républicains and became a member of the REP group.
References
References
- [http://www.senat.fr/senfic/chatillon_alain08028w.html Page on the Senate website]
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Category:People from Revel, Haute-Garonne
Category:The Republicans (France) politicians
Category:Union for a Popular Movement politicians
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Category:French senators of the Fifth Republic
Category:Senators of Haute-Garonne
Category:Mayors of places in Occitania (administrative region)
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