Marc Fraysse, a former MP from Villeurbanne’s RPR, declared his candidacy for the 2020 municipal elections on June 3 after 20 years of absence in the city. « All for Villeurbannes, Villeurbannes for all » is the name of the list on which he is running, because the conditions for a democratic change must be created in 2020 after 220 0 years of socialism.
Because he’s committed to where he’s not expected, because he can get the message across, Marc Fraysse decided to drive a list to the 2020 Municipalities in Villeurbanne where he was a RPR MP from 1993 to 1997. He also served as Vice-President of the Rhône-Alpes Regional Council and created the Association « United France » in 2003 with the aim of bringing together elected officials and citizens wishing to promote a « new social and solidarity Gaullism. » In 2012, he was the founding Vice-President of « Dialog et Démocratie Française » (French Dialog and Democracy), which brings together the Francs-Masons of all levels and backgrounds (Rhône-Alpes, Burgundy and Franche Comté regions). His introduction to the Grand Loge de France dates from 1987, his sponsor was Jean-Jacques Gabut, writer and former director of Lyon Matin, Grand Maître Honoris Causa of the Grande Loge de France.
Marc Fraysse was born in January 1949 in Lyon in a family of Alsatian Jewish origin driven out by the Prussians in 1889 as well as the Protestants. After returning from deportation to Germany, the family first settled in Ardeche in 1944 and then went up to Lyon where their parents worked as waiters, they then bought their first business in Tassin-La-Demie-Lune and opened the « Café des Voyageurs et des Mineurs » at Chambon Feugerolles. That’s when his little sister was born. He studied in a pension in Monistrol and wanted to become a priest at the seminary in Brioude (Haute Loire), which he left after taking the oath to his grandfather on his deathbed, to learn the profession of dental prosthetist practiced by his uncle.
Having beforehand his call by voluntarily joining the 22nd RI, he left the army after 16 months and became goalkeeper in St Etienne and then at the Olympique lyonnais with whom he recruited him in 1969.
Another turning point in the life of this future politician at the age of 22: he founded his denture laboratory in 1972. For 34 years, he will train many apprentices and will remain at the head of his company, which he will transfer in 2006 to 2 of them to integrate Elyo Suez by becoming Director of Institutional Relations and then in 2009, Cofely Suez GDF after the merger of the groups, until 2017; however, he remains a consultant to the Engie Group.
Marc Fraysse’s political commitment, whose two models are Napoleon and de Gaulle, began in 1980 at the RPR alongside Michel Noir, MP for Lyon. In the cantonal elections in Decines where he participated in 1982, he became a municipal councilor in 1983 and then led the opposition list. In 1986, he was elected as Regional Councilor of the Rhône-Alpes list of Alain Mérieux and was re-elected in 1992, 1998 until 2 He decided to put his political commitment in parantheses.
After leaving Decines for Villeurbannes in 1990, he became a Member of Parliament for Villeurbannes in 1993. He was the head of the list at the municipal level in 1995, and was then the Municipal Councilor of Villeurbannes and Community Councilor of the Greater Lyon Area.
In 2006, he created with Yves Cotten, Energy 2010, a work on environment and renewable and sustainable energy. Since 2009, many local and territorial parliamentarians and elected officials have joined the benches of « United France », hence the creation of regional clubs and a delegation to the National Assembly, following which his second book appeared: « De Gaulle, the man of 2012? » For a new social and solidarity Gaullism.
In March 2020, he presented himself in Villeurbannes with the program « Tous pour Villeurbannes » (All for Villeurbannes), in which he and his team proposed a project for everyone, similar to what he sang in his last single « Ma Prierté » and his 2013 book « La Prierté d’être français ». This campaign will not be a political one, it will remain true to its Gaullist ideas and would be happy to win the LR nomination, the important thing being to meet the people’s expectations in the face of economic and security difficulties while coming together under the same idea: « Pride of being French » as this sentiment exists in other countries such as the USA, Russia, China, Japan, Spain or Italy where the inhabitants are proud of their nationality. « When I recorded the song, « My Pride, » I had no idea that the events of 2015 would prove me right and that France would rise in all its diversity to claim its Republican values and pride in being French. »
A versatile character known in the political world, civil society and also as the author of 3 books (in 2003: « 20 years and later » where the author of the elementary rules of self and others whose main one is Honor, in 2012: « De Gaulle, the man of 2012? » where he demonstrates that many refer to the ideas of General de Gaulle but that few respect them and in 2013: « La prierté d’être Français ») as well as a first album (« Ma Prierté » where each of the 12 titles evokes a theme of his existence such as the birth of a child or the death of a loved one, friendship or the joys of life…) , Marc Fraysse , passionate about sport, culture, gastronomy, music and above all human relations, wishes to bring together personalities from all sides and all Like.
At the same time, in 2005, « Capzen Services », a human-sized company of services and advice to companies, was created with the aim of helping and supporting institutions in their development through services linked to the growth strategy and training of their teams. In 2017, Capzen repurchased the online news site « Parliament and Territoire », a forum for the public sphere in order to highlight initiatives in French regions that are often forgotten. Marc Fraysse’s aim is: seek to « improve the lives of its citizens and highlight living areas too often ignored by the central government. »
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