Jean-Félix Acquaviva

Jean-Félix Acquaviva (born 19 March 1973 in Bastia) is a French politician representing Pè a Corsica. He was elected to the French National Assembly on 18 June 2017, representing Haute-Corse's 2nd constituency.[1]
He was re-elected in the 2022 election under the Femu a Corsica banner.
Biography
Born on March 19, 1973, in Bastia (Haute-Corse),[2] he is the cousin of Gilles Simeoni.[3]
He is a member of the autonomist party Femu a Corsica and thus represents the coalition of the nationalist party Pè a Corsica, between Femu a Corsica and the independence party Corsica Libera.
Mayor of Lozzi(Haute-Corse) from 2008 to 2017, he was also an executive advisor to the Politics of Corsica and headed the Corsican Transport Authority from 2016 to 2017. Following his election as a member of parliament, he resigned from these positions to devote himself to his mandate as a member of parliament.
Indeed, at the end of the second round of the 2017 French legislative elections, he was elected deputy for the second constituency of Haute-Corse's 2nd constituency, with 63.05% of the votes cast, against Francis Giudici (mayor of Ghisonaccia, candidate for Renaissance (French political party) en Marche).[4]
In December 2018, he was elected national secretary of the Femu a Corsica party.[5]
He was re-elected on June 19, 2022, in the second round of the legislative elections, with 16,777 votes out of 67,924 registered voters, representing 24.70% of registered voters and 50.23% of votes cast.[6]
In the early legislative elections of 2024, he received only 45.52% of the vote and was defeated in the second round by François-Xavier Ceccoli.[7]
See also
References
- ^ "Elections législatives 2017". Ministry of the Interior (in French). Retrieved 19 June 2017.
- ^ "M. Jean-Félix Acquaviva - Haute-Corse (2e circonscription)". Assemblée nationale.
- ^ "Jean-Félix Acquaviva : du Niolu à l'Assemblée nationale, de maire à député, les rôles de sa vie".
- ^ Élections législatives de 2017 - résultats dans la deuxième circonscription de la Haute-Corse sur le site du ministère de l'Intérieur.
- ^ "Corte : Jean-Felix Acquaviva élu secrétaire national de Femu a Corsica".
- ^ "Accueil Législatives 2022 > Haute-Corse (2B) > 2ème circonscription". ministère de l'Intérieur.
- ^ Axelle Bouschon et Paul Salort. "Législatives 2024 : Jean-Félix Acquaviva rend son écharpe de député". france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr (in French).