Éric Pauget


Éric Pauget is a French politician who has represented the 7th constituency of the Alpes-Maritimes department in the National Assembly since 2017. He is a member of The Republicans.

Political career

Pauget held a seat in the Departmental Council of Alpes-Maritimes from 2001 until his resignation in 2017, first for the canton of Antibes-Biot until 2015, then for the canton of Antibes-3. He held one of the departmental council's vice presidencies from 2015 until 2017 under the presidency of Éric Ciotti.
Since 1995, he has been a municipal councillor of Antibes. He served as a deputy mayor from 2001 to 2017; he was first deputy mayor from 2012.

Political career

In parliament, Pauget serves on the Committee on Economic Affairs. In addition to his committee assignments, he is part of the French-Israeli Parliamentary Friendship Group.
In 2018, Pauget joined the leadership of Soyons Libres as a vice president, a minor party of which he has been a member since 2017 and where he is in charge of relations with the National Assembly.
In the run-up to the Republicans’ 2022 convention, Pauget endorsed Éric Ciotti as the party's chairman. In the Republicans' 2025 leadership election, he endorsed Laurent Wauquiez to succeed Ciotti as the party's new chair.

Political positions

In 2021, Pauget tabled a bill to ban bullfighting in France. A few months later, he sponsored a bill to have prison inmates pay part of the cost of their incarceration.