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What position did Marc Joulaud take from Jul 2007 to Mar 2008?
Marc Joulaud Marc Joulaud ( born 3 September 1967 in Mayenne ) is a French politician who served as Member of the European Parliament for the West France constituency from 2014 until 2019 . He is a member of the French center right party Les Républicains ( LR ) . He was jailed due to the Fillon affair . Early life and education . Joulaud studied law , first at the Maine University in Le Mans where he obtained a public law bachelor . He also obtained a masters degree in the same field at Université Paris-1 Panthéon-Sorbonne . He finished his studies at Science Po Paris , where he specialised in local government . Career . In 1992 , Jouland started working with François Fillon , at that time mayor of Sablé-sur-Sarthe , as special advisor , which marked the beginning of a long cooperation between the two men . From 1992 to 1995 , Marc Joulaud was François Fillon’s parliamentary assistant . In 1995 and 1998 , when Fillon was elected president of the Conseil general de la Sarthe and Conseil régional des Pays de la Loire , Marc Joulaud followed him as his closest advisor . Career in national politics . Joulaud began his own political career in 2001 when he became city councillor of Sablé-sur-Sarthe . He also became vice-president of the Communauté de commune de Sablé-sur-Sarthe ( community of communes ) . On 9 June 2002 , Joulaud became substitute deputy MP of the 4th constituency of Sarthe , after François Fillon’s election as MP ( With 55,21% of the ballot at the first round ) . He finally became MP on 19 July 2002 , after the nomination of François Fillon as a member of the government . During his entire mandate he was a member of the UMP group at the Assemblée Nationale ( National Assembly ) and a member of the Defence committee . In this committee he was in charge of the monitoring of the credit execution . He was also vice-president of the friendship group between France and Slovenia . For the 2007 national elections , Joulaud was again appointed as Fillon’s deputy MP in the same constituency . François Fillon and Marc Joulaud were re-elected on the 10 June 2007 with 53,40% of the ballots at the first round , and Fillon was confirmed as French Prime Minister on the 19 June . Joulaud returned as an MP on 20 July 2007 and returned in his previous political group and committee , but became president of the friendship group between France and Sierra-Leone . On 9 March 2008 Joulaud won the municipal election of Sablé-sur-Sarthe , once again in the first round , and was elected mayor by the city council on the 14th of March . Candidate for the first time on his own name in the 2012 elections , Joulaud obtained 31,67 % of the ballot at the first round and accessed to the second round . On 17 June 2012 , the second turn is on-going but after a long campaign , he obtained 40,55% of the votes while his rival Stephane Le Foll won the election with 59,45% of the votes . On 28 September 2012 , after Fillons resignation , he was elected President of the Communauté de commune de Sablé-sur-Sarthe at the absolute majority , with 56 votes . Member of the European Parliament , 2014–2019 . As a candidate for the European elections of 2014 , Joulaud was at the 3rd place on the UMP list , after Alain Cadec and Elisabeth Morin-Chartier . Nationwide , his list was one of the three UMP lists that arrived ahead the Front National lists at these elections . In the European Parliament , Joulaud was a member of the EPP group , the biggest political group in the European Parliament . He served as a full member of the Committee on Regional Development ( REGI ) and a substitute member of the Committee on Culture and Education ( CULT ) . On the REGI committee , Joulaud worked on urban policies and the implementation of the new regional policy . In the CULT committee , he specialised in digital policies , copyright policy and the audiovisual and media policies . Reflecting this , he was appointed as the EPP shadow rapporteur on CULT opinions on IPR enforcement and the copyright reform . Joulaud was also a member of the EU-Mexico Joint Parliamentary Committee , of the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly . And he is a substitute member of the South-Caucasus Parliamentary Cooperation Committees and the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly In the Republicans’ 2017 leadership election , Joulaud endorsed Laurent Wauquiez .