Noël Mamère

Noël Mamère
Noël Mamère
	Noël Mamère in 2006
Member of the French National Assembly; for Gironde's 3rd constituency
	In office; 1 June 1997 – 20 June 2017
Preceded by	Jean-Claude Barran
Succeeded by	Loïc Prud'homme
Mayor of Bègles
	In office; 20 March 1989 – 29 June 2017
Preceded by	Bernard Moncla
Succeeded by	Clément Rossignol Puech
Member of the European Parliament for France
	In office; 19 July 1994 – 11 August 1997
Parliamentary group	Green
Member of the Aquitaine Regional Council for Gironde
	In office; 23 March 1992 – 25 October 1994
Personal details
Born	25 December 1948 (age 75); Libourne, Gironde, France
Political party	GE (1990–1994); CES (1994–1998); LV (1998–2010); EELV (2010–2013); Génération.s (2017–2018)
Profession	Journalist

Noël Mamère (French pronunciation: [nɔɛl mamɛʁ]; born 25 December 1948) is a French journalist and former politician. He was the mayor of Bègles in Gironde from 1989 to 2017, as well as deputy to the French National Assembly for Gironde's 3rd constituency from 1997 to 2017. He also served as a Member of the European Parliament from 1994 to 1997.

Biography

Noël Mamère rose to fame in the 1980s as a journalist and anchorman, in particular on Antenne 2.

In 1992, he became president of Brice Lalonde's Ecology Generation party, from which he was expelled in 1994. He then founded "Ecology-Solidarity Convergences", of which he was president, before joining Les Verts in 1998.

In 2002, he was a presidential candidate and garnered 5.25% of the votes.

On 5 June 2004, whilst mayor of Bègles, he stirred up controversy by conducting a marriage ceremony for a male homosexual couple, nine years before same-sex marriage became legal in France.^[1] The marriage was annulled by the courts on 27 July 2004.^[2] The couple appealed to the European Court of Human Rights, who ultimately upheld the annullment in 2016, but acknowledged that, by then, it was now legal for them to get married.^[3]^[4]