The Interior Minister began his speech by emphasizing the need to be \u201ctogether after the shock of his passing.\u201d Several prominent right-wing figures were present at the party\u2019s headquarters, including Michel Barnier, Laurent Wauquiez, Val\u00e9rie P\u00e9cresse, Mathieu Darnaud, and G\u00e9rard Larcher. All paid tribute to a \u201cdistinguished member of our political family,\u201d in Retailleau\u2019s words. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The son of former minister Alain Marleix, Olivier Marleix began his political career as mayor of Anet, then served as a departmental councillor before becoming a Member of Parliament for Eure-et-Loir. Bruno Retailleau praised \u201chis loyalty to the party despite setbacks\u201d and recalled his \u201cGaullist convictions, which shaped not only his political journey but above all his vision of France.\u201d In 2019, he notably referred the acquisition of Alstom\u2019s energy division by American company General Electric to the National Financial Prosecutor\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Party members later gathered in front of a black-and-white photograph of the former MP. A tribute was also paid to him a few minutes later at the National Assembly, where a minute of silence was observed. The Assembly\u2019s President, Ya\u00ebl Braun-Pivet, praised a parliamentarian \u201cwho had politics in his blood.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Reporting and pictures by Arnaud Vilette, Lucas Autr\u00e9au, OLA NEWS PARIS; editing by Alexandre Minguez<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Reading Time : 2 min Paris, July 9, 2025 (OLA NEWS) – Bruno Retailleau, the party leader, brought together LR parliamentarians and elected officials this Tuesday to pay tribute to Olivier Marleix, who passed away the previous day at the age of 54. The former chairman of the group in the National Assembly, who held […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1671,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.olanews.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.olanews.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.olanews.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.olanews.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.olanews.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1670"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.olanews.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1681,"href":"https:\/\/www.olanews.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1670\/revisions\/1681"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.olanews.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.olanews.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.olanews.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.olanews.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.olanews.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250708_FRANCE-OLIVIER-MARLEIX-TRIBUTE-AT-LR-HEADQUARTER_ACV_08-1024x683.jpg\")