Dolphins Bagarry

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Delphine Bagarry (born January 9, 1970 in Lyon ) is a French doctor and politician who was elected to the French National Assembly in the election on June 18, 2017 for the 1st constituency of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department .

Political career

At first she belonged to the Parti socialiste , but in 2016 she joined the new LREM party .

In Parliament, she works in the Committee for Sustainable Development and Spatial Planning. She is also a member of the Parliamentary Group on Friendship between France and Vanuatu.

In March 2020, Bagarry resigned from the LREM faction after Prime Minister Édouard Philippe announced that he would enforce the controversial pension reform with a government decree. In May 2020 she was one of the 17 founding members of the Écologie Démocratie Solidarité group .

Political positions

In 2018, Bagarry, along with other signatories around Sébastien Nadot, submitted a motion to set up a committee of inquiry into the question of the legality of French arms sales to the Saudis-led coalition that is waging war in Yemen, one day before a state visit by the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Paris. In 2019, she was one of five members of the LREM parliamentary group to join a cross-party initiative to legalize the sale and use of cannabis .

In June, Bagarry and five other former LREM MPs announced the creation of #Nous Demain, a "humanist, ecological and feminist" political movement.

Individual evidence

  1. Elections législatives 2017 ( French ) In: Ministry of the Interior . Retrieved June 19, 2017.
  2. Le groupe LRM perd deux députés, mécontents du recours au 49.3 pour la réforme des retraites Le Monde , March 2, 2020.
  3. French PM faces confidence vote ahead of fresh pension reform protests Radio France Internationale , March 3, 2020.
  4. ^ John Irish and Marine Pennetier (April 5, 2018), Ahead of Saudi prince visit, Macron lawmaker asks for inquiry over French arms sales Reuters .