Catherine Vautrin
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Catherine Vautrin (born July 26, 1960 in Reims ) is a French politician ( RPR , UMP , Les Républicains ). She was a member of the National Assembly from 2002 to 2004 and again from 2007 to 2017 and its Vice-President from 2008 to 2017. Since 2014 she has been president of the Reims Métropole and Grand Reims municipal associations .
Life
Catherine Vautrin completed a degree in business law, which she graduated with a maîtrise . She then made a career for the American insurance group CIGNA , where she rose to become Marketing and Communications Director. In 1999, she left the private sector to devote herself entirely to politics.
She had already joined the Gaullist Rassemblement pour la République (RPR) at the age of 20 . In 1983 she was elected - as the youngest candidate - to the Reims Municipal Council, of which she was a member until 1999. Then she became a member of the Regional Council of Champagne-Ardennes. In 2002, the RPR merged with the center-right rallying party Union pour un mouvement populaire (UMP). In the parliamentary elections in the same year, Vautrin was elected to the National Assembly as a member of the 2nd constituency in the Marne department .
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She resigned her parliamentary seat when she was appointed State Secretary for Integration and Equal Opportunities in the Raffarin III cabinet at the end of March 2004 . After seven months she moved to the office of State Secretary for Seniors. In June 2005, she became Assistant Minister for Social Cohesion and Parity (under Labor and Social Affairs Minister Jean-Louis Borloo ) in the de Villepin cabinet and remained so until May 2007. In 2006, she became chairwoman of the UMP party association in the Marne department. In the parliamentary election that followed, she was re-elected to the National Assembly. In September 2008 she was elected one of the Vice-Presidents of the National Assembly, which she retained after the 2012 election.
At the municipal level, she has been a member of the Reims municipal council again since 2008, where the socialist Adeline Hazan was mayor until 2014 , so that Vautrin represented the opposition in the town hall. In 2014 there was a change here and her party colleague Arnaud Robinet was elected mayor. Catherine Vautrin then took over the office of President of the Reims Métropole Municipal Association , to which the city of Reims and the surrounding municipalities have come together.
At the beginning of 2017, Reims Métropole merged with eight neighboring municipal associations to form Communauté urbaine du Grand Reims , which comprises 143 municipalities with a total of almost 300,000 inhabitants. Vautrin also acts as president of this. However, she lost her seat in the National Assembly in the 2017 parliamentary election with 48.8% in the runoff to Aina Kuric from the La République en Marche party .
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| SURNAME | Vautrin, Catherine |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 26, 1960 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Reims , France |