Jean-François Copé [SEP] father
-Billancourt, the son of Professor Roland Copé, a surgeon of Romanian Jewish origin, and Monique Ghanassia, of Algerian Jewish origin. His paternal grandparents were Marcu Hirs Copelovici, a physician born in Iaşi (Romania), and Gisele Lazerovici. His maternal grandparents were Ismael André Ghanassia, a lawyer in Algiers (son of Moïse Ghanassia and Djouhar Soussi, from Miliana, in Algeria), and Lise Boukhabza (granddaughter of a Tunisian rabbi).
Raised in a French Jewish family, he describes himself as "a
French Polynesia and The Rally–UMP in New Caledonia.
Factions 2012 leadership election.
The aforementioned November 2012 congress saw the division of the party between the two candidates who sought the party's presidency, François Fillon and Jean-François Copé – the "fillonistes" and "copéistes".
- "Copéistes" (supporters of Jean-François Copé): Jean-François Copé, Luc Chatel, Michèle Tabarot, Jean-Claude Gaudin, Jean-Pierre Raffarin, Marc-Philippe Daubresse, Hervé Novelli, Christian