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Florence Portelli (born 23 March 1978 in Argenteuil) is a French politician.

Elected Mayor of Taverny in 2014, she is also regional councillor of Île-de-France since 2015.

Member of The Republicans, she was the spokewoman of François Fillon during the French presidential election in 2017. She is candidate for the presidency of The Republicans.

Biography
She is the daughter of senator Hugues Portelli and Marie Bosi

Portelli enrolled at the Panthéon-Assas University, where she graduated with a M.A. in public law of the Sorbonne Law School and, later, with a degree of Paris Institute of Criminology.

In 2014, she was elected Mayor of Taverny and became regional councillor of Île-de-France after the 2015 elections.

In 2015, she was appointed as member of The Republicans political bureau by Nicolas Sarkozy and became National Secretary for Culture of the political movement.

Having supported François Fillon during the 2012 leadership election, she was selected as spokesperson for his 2017 presidential campaign, and later as The Republicans spokewoman for the French legislative election, 2017.

She declared her candidacy on 29 August 2017. she militates "for the right to recover its pride", to "return to activists the place that they should have in the party", and "a refoundation, a democratized functioning, a radical change to statutes and clarification of the ideological line of the party". She excludes any possibility of cooperating with the extreme right, argues for the need to "reinforce" immigration control, and supports the definitive exclusion of LR members of "The Constructives", saying they had "excluded themselves", but invited those who hoped that its creation would propel the right to reform to "to return to the fold," believing them mistaken.

Personal life
She has been playing piano since the age of six and is an avid jazz lover. In 2016, she was elected President of the Orchestre national d'Île-de-France, a French symphony orchestra