Danièle Obono

Danièle Obono (French pronunciation: [danjɛl ɔbɔno]; born 12 July 1980)[1] is a Gabonese-French politician who has represented the 17th constituency of Paris in the National Assembly since 2017. A member of La France Insoumise (FI), she was reelected in the first round of the 2022 legislative election.[2]

Danièle Obono
Obono in 2017
Member of the National Assembly
for Paris's 17th constituency
Assumed office
21 June 2017
Preceded byDaniel Vaillant
Personal details
Born (1980-07-12) 12 July 1980
Libreville, Estuaire, Gabon
NationalityGabonese, French
Political partyLa France Insoumise
Other political
affiliations
Front de Gauche
Parent
Alma materPanthéon-Sorbonne University

Early life

Obono was born on 12 July 1980 in Libreville, Gabon[1] to a prominent Gabonese family.[3] She is the daughter of Hortense Simbou Mbadinga, a secretary at Air Gabon; and Martin Edzodzomo-Ela, an economist who was a senior executive at the Paribas-Gabon bank from 1975 to 1979 before he was dismissed for his opposition to the regime of Omar Bongo,[4] who was also a candidate in the Gabonese presidential election of 1998.[5][6] She lived in Gabon until she was about ten years old, before she attended university in Montpellier.[3] She became a naturalised French citizen in 2011.[7]

After graduating from university, Obono became a librarian in Paris.[8] In 2002, she obtained a master's degree in history at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University, studying the economic relationship between France and Gabon during the second half of the 20th century under the supervision of Jacques Marseille.[9] In 2003, she started a doctoral programme in political science at the Institut des mondes africains, focusing on social and democratic movements in Nigeria, though she began her political career before completing that degree.[3]

Political career

Following the 2015 Charlie Hebdo attack, Obono was at the centre of a controversy after she stated she would "not cry", deeming the weekly newspaper's cartoons "racist".[10]

A member of La France Insoumise, Obono was elected to the National Assembly for the 17th constituency of Paris in the legislative election of 2017.[11][12] She was a spokesperson for La France Insoumise under the leadership Jean-Luc Mélenchon, together with Alexis Corbière.[13]

In the legislature, Obono has served on the Committee on Legal Affairs, the Committee on European Affairs and the Committee on Foreign Affairs.[14][15][16]

In November 2017, she was involved in another controversy after she defended union meetings in Seine-Saint-Denis that were closed to white people. After the government announced it would sue the organisers, Obono had an altercation with Mélenchon in the National Assembly, following his support of the government on this matter.[17]

In August 2020, the right-wing French magazine Valeurs actuelles published a seven-page fantasy story and illustrations of Obono as a slave in chains facing the sunset, shackled beside a fire, under the title "summer fantasy story", prompting an outcry from politicians of various parties.[18]

Questioned about Hamas following the terrorist attacks of 7 October 2023, Danielle Obono, told French radio Sud Radio on 17 october that "yes, Hamas is a resistance movement. It's an Islamist political group that has an armed wing, and is resisting Israel », refusing to qualify it a terrorist organization.

References

  1. "Mme Danièle Obono" (in French). French National Assembly. Retrieved 1 September 2020.
  2. "Législatives à Paris : Danièle Obono élue dès le premier tour dans la 17ème circonscription". actu.fr (in French). 12 June 2022. Retrieved 13 June 2022.
  3. Godeau, Elise (9 July 2017). "Danièle Obono, viv(r)e la France". Libération (in French). Retrieved 1 September 2020.
  4. "Martin Edzodzomo-Ela" (in French). BNF. 2020. Retrieved 1 September 2020.
  5. "Elections in Gabon". African Elections Database. Retrieved 1 September 2020.
  6. "Danièle Obono, la seule "insoumise" élue députée à Paris" (in French). Africa Post News. 20 June 2017. Retrieved 2 September 2020.
  7. "Danielle Obono (front de gauche): " Pour un processus de révolution citoyenne "". Journal officiel des banlieues (in French). 1 March 2012. Retrieved 1 September 2020.
  8. "Législatives : duel entre une insoumise et une marcheuse dans la 17e circonscription de Paris" (in French). France 24. 16 June 2017. Retrieved 1 September 2020.
  9. "Les relations économiques entre la France et le Gabon de 1960 à 2000" (in French). SUDOC. 2002. Retrieved 1 September 2020.
  10. (in French) Danièle Obono avait-elle "les yeux secs" devant les morts de Charlie Hebdo, comme le dit Richard Malka ?, Radio France, 2 September 2020.
  11. "Paris - 17e circonscription , resultats élections législatives 2017". France Info. Retrieved 30 June 2017.
  12. "Mme Danièle Obono". National Assembly. Retrieved 24 June 2017.
  13. Lemke, Coralie (18 June 2017). "Résultat législatives 2017: Danièle Obono, une militante altermondialiste à l'Assemblée". 20 Minutes (in French). Retrieved 1 September 2020.
  14. "Composition de la commission des lois" (in French). French National Assembly. 2 September 2020. Retrieved 2 September 2020.
  15. "Composition de la commission des affaires européennes" (in French). French National Assembly. 2 September 2020. Retrieved 2 September 2020.
  16. "Composition de la délégation aux outre-mer" (in French). French National Assembly. 2 September 2020. Retrieved 2 September 2020.
  17. Hausalter, Louis, Stage pour "racisés" : prise de bec entre Jean-Luc Mélenchon et Danièle Obono à l’Assemblée, Marianne, 29 November 2017.
  18. Associated Press (29 August 2020). "French magazine says sorry for portraying black MP as a slave". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 29 August 2020. Retrieved 29 August 2020.


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