Following the example of his wife, he became a member of the local council in Ellezelles in 2000 as a representative of the centrist Humanist Democratic Centre ("Centre démocrate humaniste" / cdH) party. Since 2006 he has been the mayor of Ellezelles, which in administrative terms is a grouping of rural parishes with a total population of approximately 6,000 people. He retained his mayoral post at the 2012 elections.
