Marietta Karamanli

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Marietta Karamanli
Member of the National Assembly
for Sarthe's 2nd constituency
Assumed office
20 June 2007
Preceded byJean-Marie Geveaux
Member of the Municipal council of Le Mans
Assumed office
24 March 1989
MayorRobert Jarry
Jean-Claude Boulard
Stéphane Le Foll
Personal details
Born (1964-12-18) 18 December 1964 (age 59)
Athens, Greece
NationalityFrench

Marietta Karamanli (Greek: Μαριέττα Καραμανλή, born 18 December 1964 in Athens) is a French politician who has been a member of the National Assembly of France since 2007,[1] representing the Sarthe department. Excluded from the Socialist Party, she joined the NUPES coalition in April 2022. [2]

Political career[edit]

In parliament, Karamanli serves on the Committee on Legal Affairs. In November 2018, she co-authored (with Éric Bothorel) a parliamentary report on digital taxation.[3]

In addition to her role in parliament, Karamanli has been serving as member of the French delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) since 2007. She is a member of the Committee on the Honouring of Obligations and Commitments by Member States of the Council of Europe (Monitoring Committee) and the Sub-Committee on External Relations. In this capacity, she has served as the Assembly's rapporteur on the access by detainees to a lawyer (2017)[4] and on the protection provided to victims of terrorism (since 2019).[5]

From 2014 until 2016, Karamanli served as General Rapporteur of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe on the Abolition of the death penalty.[6] In that role, she publicly condemned plans of the Russian State Duma to introduce capital punishment for certain crimes relating to terrorism in March 2015.[6]

Ahead of the 2020 French municipal elections, Karamanli ran against the outgoing mayor Stéphane Le Foll, the official PS candidate. As a consequence, Karamanli's membership in the Socialist Party was suspended for a year.[7]

Political positions[edit]

In July 2019, Karamanli voted against the French ratification of the European Union’s Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) with Canada.[8]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Office of the Secretary General (2012). "Mme Marietta Karamanli". Assemblee-nationale.fr (in French). National Assembly of France. Retrieved 7 March 2013.
  2. ^ "LISTE DÉFINITIVE DES DÉPUTÉS ÉLUS À L'ISSUE DES DEUX TOURS" (in French). National Assembly of France. Retrieved 2010-07-03.
  3. ^ Elsa Bembaron and Elisa Braun (1 April 2019), Les cinq dossiers chauds qui attendent Cédric O au Numérique Le Figaro.
  4. ^ Member states should ensure that detainees have access to a lawyer Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, press release of March 10, 2017.
  5. ^ For adequate protection and support for victims of terrorism Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, press release of October 2, 2019.
  6. ^ a b Death penalty: concern at the latest events in Belarus and Russia Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, press release of March 20, 2015.
  7. ^ Jean-François Baron (November 11, 2020), La députée Marietta Karamanli exclue du Parti socialiste pour un an Le Monde.
  8. ^ Maxime Vaudano (24 July 2019), CETA : qui a voté quoi parmi les députés Le Monde.