Pierre Person | |
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Member of the National Assembly for Paris's 6th constituency | |
In office 21 June 2017 – 22 June 2022 | |
Preceded by | Cécile Duflot |
Succeeded by | Sophia Chikirou |
Personal details | |
Born | Nancy, France | 22 January 1989
Political party | Socialist Party (until 2012) La République En Marche! (since 2016) |
Alma mater | University of Poitiers University of Lorraine Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University |
Pierre Person (born 22 January 1989) is a French politician who served as the member of the National Assembly for the 6th constituency of Paris from 2017 until 2022. A member of La République En Marche! (LREM), his constituency covers parts of the 11th and 20th arrondissements.[1] Person is considered a close ally to President Emmanuel Macron in Parliament.[2]
Political career
During his studies at the University of Poitiers, Person volunteered as the local chairman of the left-wing National Union of Students of France (UNEF). He was also a member of the Socialist Party until 2012.[3] Ahead of the 2012 French presidential election, he worked for the campaign of Socialist candidate Dominique Strauss-Kahn.[4]
In 2015, Person co-founded "Les Jeunes avec Macron" (JAM) with three friends – Sacha Houlié, Florian Humez and Jean Gaborit –[5] which had more than 22,000 members by September 2017.[6] In March 2016, he helped launch “La Gauche Libre” (“The Free Left”), a think-tank advocating “left-wing liberalism” as represented by Emmanuel Macron.[7] He later joined Macron's campaign staff ahead of the 2017 presidential elections.[8]
Person has been a member of the National Assembly since the 2017 elections. In parliament, he first served on the Finance Committee from 2017 until 2018,[9] where he was the rapporteur on the Ministry of Culture's annual budget.[10] Since 2019, he has been a member of both the Committee on Legal Affairs and the Committee on Sustainable Development and Spatial Planning.[11] Person was later appointed as co-rapporteur of a parliamentary mission on crypto assets, which published its conclusions in January 2019.[12]
In November 2018, following the resignation of Christophe Castaner from the position as chairman of LREM, Person briefly considered a candidacy to succeed him but later withdrew from the race for the party leadership;[13] instead, Stanislas Guerini was elected. Person later became Guerini's deputy.[14] In September 2020, he stepped down from that role because of disagreements over the direction of the party; he remained an LREM member.[15]
Person was not seeking re-election in the 2022 French legislative election.[16]
Political positions
In May 2018, Person co-sponsored an initiative in favour of a bioethics law extending to homosexual and single women free access to fertility treatments, such as in vitro fertilisation (IVF), under France's national health insurance; it was one of the campaign promises of President Emmanuel Macron and marked the first major social reform of his five-year term.[17][18]
In 2019, Person was one of five members of the LREM parliamentary group who joined a cross-party initiative to legalize the distribution and use of cannabis.[19][20]
Controversy
In 2022, Politico Europe reported that Person had been in talks with potential partners and investors to create a European stablecoin with Carrefour-owned fintech company Market Pay after having been at the forefront of efforts to draft France's cryptocurrency legislation.[21]
See also
References
- ↑ "Elections législatives 2017". Ministry of the Interior (in French). Retrieved 19 June 2017.
- ↑ Cédric Pietralunga and Alexandre Lemarié (20 October 2017), La République en marche: Les snipers de la Macronie Le Monde.
- ↑ Daphné Gastaldi, Coralie Schaub, Lilian Alemagna, Nathalie Raulin, Pierre-Henri Allain and Guillaume Gendron (19 June 2017), 11 nouvelles têtes LREM à l’Assemblée Libération.
- ↑ Alain Auffray (1 December 2018), Stanislas Guerini, un nouveau patron pour sortir LREM du coma politique Libération.
- ↑ Nicolas Chapuis (11 March 2016), collectif « Les Jeunes avec Macron » lance son think tank Le Monde.
- ↑ Daphné Gastaldi, Coralie Schaub, Lilian Alemagna, Nathalie Raulin, Pierre-Henri Allain and Guillaume Gendron (19 June 2017), 11 nouvelles têtes LREM à l’Assemblée Libération.
- ↑ Michel Rose (12 March 2016), French think-tank launch fans rumours of Macron's ambitions Reuters.
- ↑ Ingrid Melander and Elizabeth Pineau (5 June 2017), Macron factor set to leap from presidency to parliament Reuters.
- ↑ Pierre Person French National Assembly.
- ↑ Manon Rescan and Audrey Tonnelier (29 May 2018), Budget : les ministres au banc d’essai de l’Assemblée nationale Le Monde.
- ↑ Pierre Person French National Assembly.
- ↑ Elisa Braun (7 February 2022), Former Macron ally’s startup project raises questions over revolving doors oversight Politico Europe.
- ↑ Manon Rescan (21 October 2018), Castaner fait ses adieux à La République en marche, les ambitions s’aiguisent pour le remplacer Le Monde.
- ↑ Alexandre Lemarié (1 December 2018), Le député Stanislas Guerini élu à la tête de La République en marche Le Monde.
- ↑ Louise Guillot (21 September 2020), Number 2 in Emmanuel Macron’s party steps down Politico Europe.
- ↑ à 18h34, Par Marie-Anne Gairaud et Christine Henry Le 5 avril 2022 (5 April 2022). "Élections législatives à Paris : des députés LREM jettent (déjà) l'éponge". leparisien.fr (in French). Retrieved 30 April 2022.
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: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ↑ Harriet Agnew (24 September 2019), France moves to extend IVF to gay and single women Financial Times.
- ↑ La PMA pour toutes, un acte d’égalité Libération, 29 May 2018.
- ↑ Harriet Agnew (20 June 2019), French MPs push to legalise distribution and use of cannabis Financial Times.
- ↑ Marylou Magal (19 June 2019), Les députés LREM Person et Taché favorables à la légalisation du cannabis Le Figaro.
- ↑ Elisa Braun (7 February 2022), Former Macron ally’s startup project raises questions over revolving doors oversight Politico Europe.