Natacha Bouchart

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Natacha Bouchart
Natacha Bouchart in 2020
Mayor of Calais
Incumbent
Assumed office 22 March 2008
Preceded by	Jacky Hénin
Member of the Regional Council of Hauts-de-France
Incumbent
Assumed office 1 January 2016
President	Xavier Bertrand
Member of the French Senate for Pas-de-Calais
In office 1 October 2011 – 12 January 2016
Succeeded by	Jean-François Rapin
Personal details
Born	Natacha Keuroglanian (1963-05-29) 29 May 1963 (age 61) Lens, France
Political party	Miscellaneous right (since 2022) The Republicans (2015-2022)

Natacha Bouchart (born 29 May 1963) is a French politician of the Republicans (LR) and formerly Union for a Popular Movement (UMP).^[1]

Bouchart was born at Lens. She has served as Mayor of Calais since 2008 and was elected to represent Pas-de-Calais in the French Senate in 2011.^[2]

Ahead of the Republicans' 2016 presidential primary, Bouchart endorsed Nicolas Sarkozy as the party's candidate for the 2017 French presidential election.^[3]

Ahead of the 2022 presidential elections, Bouchart publicly declared her support for incumbent Emmanuel Macron and criticized the Republicans’ candidate Valérie Pécresse.^[4][5]

• (in French) Mairie-calais.fr