Yannick Favennec

Yannick Favennec Becot (born 12 August 1958) is a French politician of the Horizons party, within the Ensemble Citoyens coalition supporting incumbent President Emmanuel Macron, who has been serving as a member of the National Assembly since the 2002 elections, representing the Mayenne department.[1]

Yannick Favennec Becot
Member of the National Assembly
for Mayenne's 3rd constituency
Assumed office
19 June 2002
Preceded byRoger Lestas
Personal details
Born (1958-08-12) 12 August 1958
Chaudron-en-Mauges, France
Political partyHorizons (since 2022)
Other political
affiliations		UMP (until 2012)
UDI (2012–2022)

Political career

Born in Chaudron-en-Mauges, Maine-et-Loire, Favennec Becot served in Parliament on the Committee on Economic Affairs (2002–2012) and the Committee on Sustainable Development and Regional Planning (2012–2017) before moving to the Defence Committee in 2017.[2] Since 2017, he has also been a quaestor and therefore part of the Assembly's Bureau in the 15th legislature of the French Fifth Republic, under the leadership of president Richard Ferrand. In addition to his committee assignments, Favennec Becot is part of the French Parliamentary Friendship Group with the United Arab Emirates.[3]

Ahed of the 2022 French legislative election, Favennec Becot joined Horizons, a centre-right party within Emmanuel Macron's centrist Ensemble Citoyens coalition.[4] He was elected in the first round.[5]

Political positions

Ahead of the Republicans' 2016 primaries, Favennec Becot publicly endorsed Alain Juppé as the centre-right parties' candidate for the 2017 French presidential election.

In July 2019, Favennec Becot voted against the French ratification of the European Union's Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) with Canada.[6]

References
  1. "LISTE DÉFINITIVE DES DÉPUTÉS ÉLUS À L'ISSUE DES DEUX TOURS" (in French). National Assembly of France. Retrieved 2010-07-03.
  2. Yannick Favennec Becot National Assembly
  3. Yannick Favennec Becot National Assembly
  4. "Législatives en Mayenne : l'ancien Premier ministre Édouard Philippe soutiendra Yannick Favennec le 3 juin". ici, par France Bleu et France 3 (in French). 2022-05-17. Retrieved 2022-06-13.
  5. "Résultats Législatives 2022 : Yannick Favennec réélu en Mayenne, "j'ai une conception œcuménique de mon territoire"". France 3 Pays de la Loire (in French). Retrieved 2022-06-13.
  6. Maxime Vaudano (24 July 2019), CETA : qui a voté quoi parmi les députés Le Monde.


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