Céline Calvez

Céline Calvez (born 24 July 1979) is a French politician of Renaissance (RE) who has represented the 5th constituency of the Hauts-de-Seine department in the National Assembly since 2017.[1]

Céline Calvez
Member of the National Assembly
for Hauts-de-Seine's 5th constituency
Assumed office
21 June 2017
Preceded byPatrick Balkany
Personal details
Born (1979-07-24) 24 July 1979
Rennes, France
Political partySocialist Party (until 2016)
Renaissance (since 2016)
Alma materUniversity of Rennes 1
CELSA Paris

Political career

A former member of the Socialist Party (PS), Calvez was announced as the La République En Marche! (LREM, later Renaissance) candidate in the 5th constituency of Hauts-de-Seine in May 2017.[2] She won her seat in Parliament in the 2017 legislative election, defeating The Republicans (LR) candidate Arnaud de Courson in the second round with 62.5% of the vote.

She won reelection in 2022 under the Ensemble (ENS) alliance with 59.7% of the second-round vote against Léa Druet of La France Insoumise (FI), who ran under the New Ecological and Social People's Union (NUPES) alliance.

In Parliament, Calvez serves on the Committee on Cultural Affairs and Education,[3] where she has been her parliamentary group's coordinator since 2019. In addition to her committee assignments, she is part of the French-Indian Parliamentary Friendship Group.[3]

Political positions

In July 2019, Calvez voted in favour of the French ratification of the European Union's Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) with Canada.[4]

In 2021, Calvez proposed measures to make it easier for women who wish to conduct remote work in the last trimester of pregnancy.[5]

Other activities

References
  1. "Elections législatives 2017". Ministry of the Interior (in French). Retrieved 19 June 2017.
  2. Anne-Sophie Damecour (16 May 2017), Législatives : quatre nouveaux candidats se mettent en marche dans le 92, Le Parisien (in French).
  3. Céline Calvez, French National Assembly.
  4. Maxime Vaudano (24 July 2019), CETA : qui a voté quoi parmi les députés, Le Monde (in French).
  5. (in French) Les députés proposent de renforcer le télétravail en fin de grossesse, Le Figaro, 5 May 2021.
  6. Organismes extraparlementaires, in: Journal Officiel de la République Française, 10 November 2017 Légifrance.
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