Hubert Julien-Laferrière

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Hubert Julien-Laferrière (born February 27, 1966) is a French economist and politician. As a member of La République En Marche! (REM) he was elected to the National Assembly on June 18, 2017 for the 2nd constituency of the Département Rhône . Before that he was twice as a member of the Parti socialiste mayor of the 9th arrondissement of Lyon from 2003 to 2008 and from 2014 to 2017. He resigned from the party and joined REM, for which he was in the 2nd constituency of the department for the National Assembly ran for. In May 2020, he also left this party and joined the newly founded group Écologie Démocratie Solidarité .

Political career

After initially being a member of the Socialist Party , Julien-Laferrière joined the REM movement in 2017.

In Parliament, Julien-Laferrière is a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee. In this capacity he is Parliament's rapporteur for the budget of the Official Development Assistance (ODA).

He is also a member of the French delegation to the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) and in the parliamentary groups for friendship with Suriname , Kenya , Uganda , Tanzania , Burundi , Rwanda and other countries.

In view of the strike against the 2019-2020 pension reform plans, Julien-Laferrière called for a compromise between the unions and the government. He left LREM in March 2020 after Prime Minister Édouard Philippe announced that he would enforce the draft by decree.

In May 2020 he was one of the 17 founding members of the Écologie Démocratie Solidarité parliamentary group . In June he and five other ex-LREM MPs announced the creation of #Nous Demain , a "humanist, ecological and feminist" political movement.

Viewpoints

In July 2019 Julien-Laferrière voted to ratify the European Union's Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) with Canada.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. Elections législatives 2017 ( French ) In: Ministry of the Interior . Retrieved June 19, 2017.
  2. Aurélie Delmas (June 24, 2017), La galaxie Macron sur les bancs de l'Assemblée Liberation .
  3. ^ Hubert Julien-Laferrière National Assembly .
  4. Information on Hubert Julien-Laferrière on the website of the National Assembly .
  5. France braces for major rallies, more transport disruptions as pension strike continues France 24 , January 9, 2020.
  6. ^ Le groupe LRM perd deux députés, mécontents du recours au 49.3 pour la réforme des retraites Le Monde of March 2, 2020.
  7. French PM faces confidence vote ahead of fresh pension reform protests Radio France Internationale , March 3, 2020.
  8. Le député Aurélien Taché et d'autres ex-Marcheurs créent leur mouvement politique Le Figaro of June 28, 2020.