Sébastien Chenu
Sébastien Chenu | |
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File:Sébastien Chenu.jpg | |
Member of the National Assembly for Nord's 19th constituency | |
Assumed office 21 June 2017 | |
Preceded by | Anne-Lise Dufour-Tonini |
Spokesman of the National Rally | |
Assumed office 21 September 2017 | |
President | Marine Le Pen |
Member of the Regional Council of Hauts-de-France | |
Assumed office 4 January 2016 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Beauvais, France | 13 April 1973
Political party | National Rally (since 2016) |
Other political affiliations | Republican Party (1988–1997) Liberal Democracy (1997–2002) Union for a Popular Movement (2002–2014) |
Profession | Consultant |
Sébastien Chenu (born 13 April 1973) is a French politician serving as the member of the National Assembly for the 19th constituency of Nord since 2017. A former member of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP), he has also been a spokesman of the National Rally (RN, until 2018 named National Front) since 2017 under the leadership of Marine Le Pen.[1]
Career
Openly homosexual, Chenu founded GayLib, then the LGBT wing of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP), today part of the Union of Democrats and Independents (UDI).[2] He joined the FN after the UMP attempted to kill Law 2013-404, which legalised same-sex marriage, claiming that the UMP had become "the French Tea Party".[3]
Chenu served as a vice president of the Communauté d'agglomération du Beauvaisis from 2001 to 2014. Since 2016, he has been a regional councillor of Hauts-de-France. In the 2017 legislative election, he was elected to the National Assembly in the 19th constituency of Nord.
References
- ^ "Nord - 10e circonscription , resultats élections législatives 2017". Francetvinfo.fr. Retrieved 25 June 2017.
- ^ Charles Bremner (13 December 2014). "Le Pen gives National Front a gay friendly makeover". Thetimes.co.uk. Retrieved 25 June 2017.
- ^ "Sébastien Chenu, un ralliement précieux pour Marine Le Pen". Lemonde.fr. 13 December 2014. Retrieved 25 June 2017.