After the suggestion by Xavier Bertrand's that France should simply let Immigrants leave Calais for Dover, Britons can quite rightly wonder what bug has suddenly bitten Bertand, or as one so nicely says in French, "Quelle mouche a piqué Bertrand ?".
Normally he is a quiet person, and not too effusive. So what has suddenly galvanised Xavier Bertrand ?
He was born in Chalons France) in 1965 and studied Law and Political Science in the University of Reims.
He was first elected as an MP in 2002 for the Aisne constituency in Northern France. He worked closely with Jean-Pierre Raffarin who was Prime Minister from 2002 to 2005 and was Minister when Villepin was Prime Minister while Sarkozy was President from 2008 to 2013.
He has been Mayor of St Quentin since 2010.
He now seeks to become the President of the Regional Assembly of the North - Pas de Calais and Picardie area in the next elections. There he will be confronted by the National Front (FN) and its candidate Marine Le Pen, who have growing support all over France, but particularly in Northern France on the issue of Immigration !
Are Xavier Bertrand's sudden attacks against Britain about Calais Immigrants not due to the battle which can be expected with the FN party in the Regional Elections on December 6 and 13, 2015 ?
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