Bénédicte Taurine

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Bénédicte Taurine
Member of the French National Assembly for Ariège's 1st constituency
In office
21 June 2017 – 27 January 2023
Preceded byFrédérique Massat
Succeeded byMartine Froger
Personal details
Born (1976-06-18) 18 June 1976 (age 47)
Lavelanet, France
Political partyPCF
FI
EducationPaul Sabatier University
OccupationTeacher

Bénédicte Taurine (born 18 June 1976) is a French politician. She was a member of the French National Assembly for the department of Ariège from 2017 to 2023, representing La France Insoumise.[1]

Biography[edit]

Early life[edit]

Taurine is a teacher in Life and Earth Sciences at a Secondary School, she also carries out union duties at the National Union of Secondary Education.[2]

Political career[edit]

In 2015, she was a candidate for regional elections in Occitanie on the list "New world in common", grouping several parties of radical left, but was not elected.

Member of the National Assembly[edit]

She was elected member of the first constituency of Ariège on 18 June 2017 with 50.28% of the votes in the second round under the political banner of La France Insoumise.

In the National Assembly, she sat on the Economic Affairs Committee, and she was a member of Delegation for Women's Rights and Equal Opportunities for Men and Women.[3] She was president of the France-Andorra Friendship Group.[4]

She was re-elected in the 2022 French legislative election. Her election was annulled by the Constitutional Council in January 2023.[5] She lost the seat in the second round of the by-election on 2 April 2023.

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Elections législatives 2017". Ministry of the Interior (in French). Retrieved 19 June 2017.
  2. ^ Brice Vidal. "Bénédicte Taurine et Michel Larive élus pour la France Insoumise" (in French). 100% Radio. Retrieved 3 November 2017.
  3. ^ "Délégation aux droits des femmes et à l'égalité des chances entre les hommes et les femmes". National Assembly (in French). Retrieved 4 November 2017.
  4. ^ "Composition du groupe d'amitié France-Andorre". National Assembly (in French). Retrieved 4 November 2017.
  5. ^ "Législatives : l'élection de B. Taurine annulée par le Conseil constitutionnel". ladepeche.fr (in French). Retrieved 25 March 2023.