Alexandre Holroyd - Member of the French National Assembly

Published: Feb. 8, 2021, 6 a.m.

Alexandre Holroyd was the candidate of La République En Marche! at the 2017 legislative elections for the third constituency for French residents overseas. He won the second round against former Hollande minister Axelle Lemaire on 18 June 2017. His constituency of Northern Europe covers all French citizens living in ten countries in Northern Europe - specifically, Iceland, Norway, Denmark (including the Faroe Islands and Greenland), Sweden, Finland (including Åland), Ireland, the United Kingdom, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. It contains roughly 140,731 registered French voters. By far the greatest number of these (113,655) are living in the United Kingdom, the country with the third greatest number of registered French residents in the world. Alexandre himself is French-British and was brought up in London and attended a French school. Having attended University in both UK and France, he began a career in consultancy in London. When Emmanuel Macron founded En Marche, Alexandre quit his job to found the overseas arm and campaigned vigorously for a Macron victory. In this episode we discuss French politics, French identity, the rise of Rassemblement National and the future of En Marche.