Sandrine Rousseau

Sandrine Rousseau (born 8 March 1972) is a French politician who has represented the 9th constituency of Paris in the National Assembly since 2022. A member of Europe Ecology – The Greens (EELV), she has been widely seen as a figurehead of France's MeToo movement against sexual violence while condoning the hijab as a freedom cloth; she describes herself as an ecofeminist.[1]

Sandrine Rousseau
Rousseau in 2021
Member of the National Assembly
for Paris's 9th constituency
Assumed office
21 June 2022
Preceded byBuon Tan
Personal details
Born (1972-03-08) 8 March 1972
Maisons-Alfort, France
Political partyEurope Ecology – The Greens (until 2017; since 2020)
SpouseFrançois-Xavier Devetter (divorced)
Children3
Alma materUniversity of Poitiers
University of Lille

Rousseau previously served as a vice-president of the University of Lille.[2]

Early life

Rousseau was raised in Nieul-sur-Mer, France, where her father Yves Rousseau was mayor from 2001 to 2008.[3]

Political career

Rousseau became a candidate in the 2010 French regional elections for the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region, in third position on the Nord list. Following a merger of the left-wing lists, she was elected in the second round on the united list led by Daniel Percheron. She was appointed vice-president of the Regional Council of Nord-Pas-de-Calais, in charge of Research and Higher Education.

From 2011, Rousseau was part of the EELV national leadership, under chairwoman Cécile Duflot.[4]

In March 2020, Rousseau was elected president of the Conférence permanente des chargés(e)s de mission égalité et diversité (CPED), which is composed of ninety-four public institutions of higher education and research around equality and diversity policies.[5]

In 2021, Rousseau was a candidate for the open primary vote organized by Europe Ecology – The Greens for the 2022 French presidential election.[6] She qualified for the second round but lost to Yannick Jadot.[7] She later joined Jadot’s campaign team[8] but, by March 2022, was asked to leave again after she had expressed strong criticism of the campaign strategy.[9]

During the 2022 French legislative election, Rousseau was elected deputy to the National Assembly for Paris's 9th constituency, as a member of the New Ecologic and Social People's Union.[10] In parliament, she has since been a member of the Committee on Social Affairs.[11]

In 2016, Rousseau was one of several female politicians – including Isabelle Attard, Elen Debost and Annie Lahmer – who made headlines for accusing Green party colleague and MP Denis Baupin of sexual harassment.[12][13] In 2022, she suggested in a TV interview that her colleague Julien Bayou had exhibited “behavior which could break women’s psychological health” and said that Bayou’s former partner had later attempted suicide; the Green Party’s parliamentary group subsequently suspended Bayou from his role as the group’s co-chair, and he later stepped down as secretary as well.[14][15]

In 2021, Rousseau was criticized for being too absent on her university post, because of her participation in the electoral campaign.[16] In 2022 she sparked controversy by proposing that the law make non-participation in household chores a criminal offence.[17]

In August 2022, France’s National Hunting Federation (FNC) filed a complaint against Rousseau after she had stated "that one femicide out of four [was] linked to a hunting weapon.“[18]

Publications

References
  1. Angelique Chrisafis (23 September 2021). "'Eco-feminist' shocks French politics in bid for Greens' presidency". The Guardian.
  2. "Sandrine Rousseau - Université de Lille". pro.univ-lille.fr. Retrieved 1 May 2022.
  3. Masse, Clement (22 September 2001). "Charente-Maritime : les racines de l'engagement politique de l'écologiste Sandrine Rousseau". France 3 Nouvelle-Aquitaine (in French). Retrieved 11 December 2022.
  4. Présentation des membres du bureau Exécutif national Europe Ecology – The Greens (EELV), press release of 15 June 2011.
  5. Communiqué de presse : Sandrine Rousseau élue à la tête de la CPED Conférence permanente des chargés(e)s de mission égalité et diversité (CPED), press release of 26 March 2020
  6. "Who's who in the 2022 French presidential election". Le Monde.fr (in French). 9 February 2022. Retrieved 1 May 2022.
  7. "French Greens narrowly choose MEP Yannick Jadot as presidential candidate". POLITICO. 28 September 2021.
  8. Sacha Nelken (1 October 2021), Primaire écologiste : Sandrine Rousseau soutiendra finalement Yannick Jadot «sans état d’âme» Libération.
  9. Alexandre Rousset (4 March 2022), Présidentielle : Sandrine Rousseau exclue de la campagne de Yannick Jadot Les Echos.
  10. "Elections législatives 2022 : Sandrine Rousseau élue députée dans la 9e circonscription de Paris". Le Monde.fr. 19 June 2022.
  11. Sandrine Rousseau National Assembly.
  12. "Realist or radical? French Greens pick presidential candidate". France 24. 25 September 2021. Retrieved 1 May 2022.
  13. Pierre Lepelletier (25 October 2020), Sandrine Rousseau veut être la candidate des écologistes à la présidentielle Le Figaro.
  14. Aurelien Breeden and Catherine Porter (21 September 2022), French Left Lawmaker Admits Slapping Wife, and Party Leader Defends Him New York Times.
  15. Peter O’Brien (26 September 2022), Fresh accusations of violence against women divide France’s left Politico Europe.
  16. "A l'université de Lille, les « absences » de Sandrine Rousseau déplaisent". www.20minutes.fr (in French). Retrieved 1 May 2022.
  17. "Sandrine Rousseau propose de créer un "délit de non-partage des tâches domestiques"". BFMTV (in French). Retrieved 1 May 2022.
  18. Rémy Dodet (25 August 2022) La Fédération nationale des Chasseurs porte plainte contre Sandrine Rousseau et réclame près de 100 000 euros de dommages et intérêts L'Obs.

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