François-Xavier Bellamy

François-Xavier Bellamy (born 11 October 1985) is a French essayist, high-school teacher and politician. He is a former Deputy Mayor of Versailles (2008–2019) and is now a Member of the European Parliament (2019–present), having led The Republicans (LR) list in the 2019 and 2024 election.

Since 2023, he has been LR's executive vice president.

Early life and education
François-Xavier Bellamy was born in 1985 in Paris.

Bellamy was educated at the École Sainte-Marie des Bourdonnais, a private school in Versailles. After two-years preparatory classes (A/L) in the Lycée Henri-IV, he got into the École normale supérieure, from which he graduated in 2005. He earned the agrégation in philosophy in 2008.

Early career
Bellamy taught philosophy at the Lycée Sainte-Geneviève and the Lycée Notre-Dame de Grandchamp in Versailles in 2008. In 2009, he taught at the Lycée Auguste Renoir in Asnières-sur-Seine, the Lycée Louis Bascan in Rambouillet and the Lycée hôtelier in Guyancourt. Since 2011, he has been teaching philosophy and art history for the preparatory classes at the Lycée Blomet in Paris.

Bellamy is the author of four books. He won the Prix d'Aumale from the Académie Française in 2014 for his first book, Les déshérités ou l'urgence de transmettre. In this essay, he analyses the failure of the French educational system as the result of an ideology that refuses the transmission of culture, thus creating disinherited students.

Career in local politics
Bellamy was deputy mayor in Versailles for employment, youth and higher education.

He was a candidate for the National Assembly elections in Yvelines's 1st constituency in 2017, invested by The Republicans, but he lost in the second round against the candidate of En Marche!, Didier Baichère with 48.9% vs 51.1% of the votes.

Member of the European Parliament, 2019–present
Since May 2019, Bellamy has been a Member of the European Parliament for the EPP. In parliament, he is a member of the Committee on Fisheries (PECH) and the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE).

In addition to his committee assignments, Bellamy is part of the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China.

Political positions
Ahead of the Republicans' 2022 convention, Bellamy endorsed Bruno Retailleau as the party's chairman. During the 2024 French legislative election, he stated that he would support the far-right Rassemblement national in a second-round contest against the left-wing New Popular Front.

In a joint letter initiated by Norbert Röttgen and Anthony Gonzalez ahead of the 47th G7 summit in 2021, Bellamy joined some 70 legislators from Europe and the US in calling upon their leaders to take a tough stance on China and to "avoid becoming dependent" on the country for technology including artificial intelligence and 5G. He voted no in the 2005 French European Constitution referendum.

Bellamy has been a member of the French anti gay marriage movement from its modern inception. He opposed extending the right to assisted reproductive technology to lesbian couples. He opposes abortion.