Marie-Christine Verdier-Jouclas (born 19 March 1965 in Albi) is a French politician representing La République En Marche! She was elected to the French National Assembly on 18 June 2017, representing the department of Tarn.[1] In the June 2022 election she was narrowly defeated in the second round by Karen Erodi of LFI.
Marie-Christine Verdier-Jouclas | |
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| Member of the National Assembly for Tarn's 2nd constituency | |
| In office 21 June 2017 – 21 June 2022 | |
| Preceded by | Jacques Valax |
| Succeeded by | Karen Erodi |
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| Born | 19 March 1965 Albi, France |
| Political party | La République En Marche |
Political career
editIn parliament, Verdier-Jouclas served on the Finance Committee. She was also a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with Gabon, Jamaica and Morocco.[2]
In addition to her committee assignments, Verdier-Jouclas has been a member of the French delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe since 2017. In this capacity, she served on the Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons and the Sub-Committee on Integration.[3] She was selected as the Assembly’s rapporteur on disaster preparedness in 2019.[4]
As of 2019, Verdier-Jouclas served as one of her parliamentary group's spokespersons under the leadership of its chairman Gilles Le Gendre.[5]
Political positions
editIn May 2018, Verdier-Jouclas co-sponsored an initiative in favour of a bioethics law extending to homosexual and single women free access to fertility treatments such as in vitro fertilisation (IVF) under France's national health insurance; it was one of the campaign promises of President Emmanuel Macron and marked the first major social reform of his five-year term.[6][7]
In September 2018, following the appointment of François de Rugy to the government, Verdier-Jouclas supported the candidacy of Richard Ferrand as president of the National Assembly.[8]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "Elections législatives 2017". Ministry of the Interior (in French). Retrieved 19 June 2017.
- ^ Marie-Christine Verdier-Jouclas French National Assembly.
- ^ Marie-Christine Verdier-Jouclas Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.
- ^ A more proactive approach to protect the victims of natural and man-made disasters Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, press release of 3 October 2019.
- ^ Mathilde Siraud (14 January 2019), Le groupe LaREM à l'Assemblée muscle son équipe de porte-parole Le Figaro.
- ^ Harriet Agnew (24 September 2019), France moves to extend IVF to gay and single women Financial Times.
- ^ La PMA pour toutes, un acte d’égalité Libération, 29 May 2018.
- ^ Julie Cloris (9 September 2018), Duel Ferrand-Pompili pour présider l’Assemblée : qui soutient qui ? Le Parisien.