Gilles Platret

Gilles Platret
Platret in 2017
Mayor of Chalon-sur-Saône
Assumed office
29 March 2014
Preceded byChristophe Sirugue
Member of the
Regional Council of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Assumed office
4 January 2016
Personal details
Born (1973-04-19) 19 April 1973
Saint-Rémy, France
Political partyMiscellaneous right (2024–present)
Other political
affiliations
Union for a Popular Movement (until 2015)
The Republicans (2015–2024)
Alma materSciences Po
Paris-Sorbonne University

Gilles Platret (French pronunciation: [ʒil platʁɛ]; born 19 April 1973) is a French politician who has served as Mayor of Chalon-sur-Saône since 2014. From 2019 to 2023, he served as a vice president of The Republicans (LR), after having been appointed a spokesperson for the party in 2017.

Platret has been a member of the Regional Council of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté since 2016, and was the lead candidate of The Republicans in the 2021 regional election. In 2017, 2022 and 2024, he unsuccessfully ran for the National Assembly in the 5th constituency of Saône-et-Loire.