Christine Prunaud

Christine Prunaud (born 4 September 1950) is a French politician. She served as senator for Côtes-d'Armor from 2014 to 2020.[1][2][3]

Christine Prunaud
Member of the French Senate
In office
2014–2020
ConstituencyCôtes-d'Armor
Personal details
Born (1950-09-04) 4 September 1950
Saint-Brieuc, France
Political partyFrench Communist Party

Biography

One of three children in a politically socialist family, Prunaud is the granddaughter of Eugène Bagot, the mayor of Plénée-Jugon from 1945 to 1959.[4]

As an adult, she was active in a number of advocacy groups, including ones for women's rights, secularism, and equality. She was elected to the municipal council of Lamballe in 2001, 2008, and 2014, serving a stint as deputy mayor.[4]

Senatorial career

In the 2014 elections to the French senate, she ran as the second name on the common left-wing list led by Yannick Botrel, successfully winning a seat.[5]

In the senate, she represents the Communist, Republican, Citizen and Ecologist group and has been a member of the Parliamentary Office on Evaluating Scientific and Technological Choices and sits on the board of the Centre national du livre.

Until October 2017, she sat on the Culture, Education, and Communication Committee. That month, she was named to the Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee.

On 24 June 2018, she was arrested in Ağrı along with two other French Communist Party members while serving as an observer for the 2018 Turkish general election.[6][7]

She participated in a conference titled « La souveraineté du peuple sahraoui sur ses ressources naturelles » in November 2019 in Paris, which discussed issues surrounding the role of Morocco and multinationals in resource exploitation in Western Sahara.[8]

In September 2020, she announced her retirement from politics.[9]

References
  1. "ENTRETIEN. Côtes-d'Armor. La sénatrice Christine Prunaud restera une militante". Archived from the original on 1 November 2020.
  2. "La femme du jour. Christine Prunaud". L'Humanité (in French). 26 October 2017.
  3. "Des Palestiniens à Lamballe". actu.fr (in French).
  4. "Christine Prunaud, une sénatrice déjà engagée". ouest-france.fr (in French). 30 September 2014. Retrieved 7 February 2018..
  5. "Lamballe. Christine Prunaud, une femme qui s'investit pour les autres". Archived from the original on 9 July 2021.
  6. "Ce que l'on sait de l'arrestation d'une délégation du PCF venue observer le déroulement des élections en Turquie". Franceinfo (in French). 24 June 2018. Retrieved 24 June 2018.
  7. "Christine Prunaud, la sénatrice des Côtes d'Armor, arrêtée en Turquie avec une délégation du PCF". france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr (in French). 2018. Retrieved 26 June 2018..
  8. Mohsen-Finan, Khadija (23 December 2019). "Face au Maroc, le Polisario ouvre le front des ressources du Sahara occidental". Orient XXI (in French).
  9. "Christine Prunaud, six années dans l'hémicycle". Le Telegramme (in French). 28 September 2020.
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