Marie Guévenoux

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Marie Guévenoux
Marie Guévenoux in 2018
Minister of the Overseas
Assumed office
8 February 2024
Prime MinisterGabriel Attal
Preceded byPhilippe Vigier
Member of the National Assembly for Essonne's 9th constituency
In office
21 June 2017 – 11 January 2024
Preceded byRomain Colas
Succeeded byÉric Husson
Personal details
Born (1976-11-02) 2 November 1976 (age 47)
Amiens, France
Political partyLes Républicains (until 2017)
La République En Marche (since 2017)

Marie Guévenoux (born 2 November 1976) is a French politician of La République En Marche! (LREM) who has been serving as Minister of the Overseas in the government of Prime Minister Gabriel Attal since 2024.[1] From 2017 to 2024, she was a member of the French National Assembly, representing the department of Essonne.[2]

Political career[edit]

In the Republicans' primaries ahead of the 2017 presidential election, Guévenoux was part of candidate Alain Juppé's campaign staff.[3] When François Fillon was chosen as the party's candidate, she became his campaign team's administrative and financial director. Amid the Fillon affair, however, she resigned from that position and left the Republicans' campaign.[4]

In the 2017 French legislative election, Guévenoux joined the LREM campaign and became a member of the National Assembly. In parliament, she served on the Committee on Legal Affairs.[5] She was also a secretary of the Bureau of the National Assembly of the 15th legislature of the French Fifth Republic. In early 2018, she was one of several LREM members who joined an informal parliamentary working group on Islam set up by Florent Boudié in order to contribute to the government's bill aimed at better organising and supervising the financing of the Muslim faith in France.[6] Later that year, she co-chaired (with Éric Bothorel) a group of some twenty parliamentarians involved in organizing a nation-wide consultation process in response to the Yellow vests movement.[7]

In addition to her parliamentary work, Guévenoux was a member of the Commission consultative du secret de la défense nationale (CCSDN), an independent authority in charge of declassification of documents.[8]

From November 2017 on, Guévenoux was part of LREM's 20-member executive board under the leadership of the party's chairman Christophe Castaner.[9]

Political positions[edit]

In July 2019, Guévenoux voted in favor of the French ratification of the European Union’s Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) with Canada.[10]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Célestine Gentilhomme (8 February 2024), Remaniement : la députée Renaissance Marie Guévenoux nommée ministre déléguée aux Outre-Mer Le Figaro.
  2. ^ "Elections législatives 2017". Ministry of the Interior (in French). Retrieved 19 June 2017.
  3. ^ Ludovic Vigogne (2 March 2015), « Chaque mercredi, à 8h30, la task force Juppé se réunit... », L'Opinion.
  4. ^ Une ex-collaboratrice de Juppé et Fillon, candidate macroniste aux législatives, Le Figaro, 12 May 2017.
  5. ^ Marie Guévenoux French National Assembly.
  6. ^ Alexandre Lemarié (23 November 2018), Des députés La République en marche s’attellent au sujet de l’islam de France Le Monde.
  7. ^ Manon Rescan (19 December 2018), Les députés LRM peu emballés par le référendum d’initiative citoyenne Le Monde.
  8. ^ Marie Guévenoux French National Assembly.
  9. ^ Le Conseil de La République En Marche ! La République En Marche!, press release of 16 October 2017.
  10. ^ Maxime Vaudano (24 July 2019), CETA : qui a voté quoi parmi les députés Le Monde.