Laurence Abeille

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Laurence Abeille (2012)

Laurence Abeille (born June 17, 1960 in Neuilly-sur-Seine ) is a French politician of the Europe Écologie-Les Verts (EELV). She was a member of the National Assembly from 2012 to 2017 .

Life

Abeille grew up in Montreuil . She studied history and art history in Vincennes and Paris . After graduating from university, Abeille worked as a journalist and in the publishing industry, at which time she lived in Fontenay-sous-Bois . There she joined the EELV in 2000, the following year she was elected to the municipal council of Fontenay-sous-Bois, which she held until 2014.

In 2004 Abeille was elected to the regional council of Île-de-France , and in 2010 she was re-elected. Subsequently, she was President of l'Agence Régionale de l'Environnement et des Nouvelles Energies (Regional Office for Environment and Renewable Energy Sources - ARENE). She gave up both positions in 2012 following her election to the National Assembly. At the municipal level, Abeille was promoted to third deputy mayor of Fontenay-sous-Bois in 2008, in which position she was responsible for town planning.

In the 2012 parliamentary elections , Abeille ran for the sixth constituency of Val-de-Marne as a candidate on the Vincennes en transition list supported by the EELV and the Parti socialiste (PS) and was run off in the runoff against Patrick Beaudouin ( UMP ) elected to the National Assembly with 50.95 percent of the valid votes. As an MP, Abeille was a member of the Committee for Sustainable Development and Spatial Planning and a deputy member of the High Council for Social and Solidarity Economy . Furthermore, she chaired the parliamentary association for the preservation and recovery of biodiversity .

In the run-up to the 2017 presidential elections , Abeille supported the then social democratic presidential candidate Benoît Hamon at a joint rally by the EELV and the PS .

In the 2017 parliamentary elections , Abeille stood for re-election as the EELV candidate, the electoral list was supported by her deputy Franck-Olivier Torro and counted well-known local EELV and PS politicians among her supporters. With 16.10 percent of the valid votes in the first ballot, Abeille missed the runoff election, and Guillaume Gouffier-Cha entered the National Assembly in her place . She resigned from the National Assembly on June 20, 2017.

Abeille is married to Jean Desessard , the Paris Senator of the EELV from 2004 to 2017, and is the mother of two children.

Work as a member of parliament

According to a ranking by the agency “Rumeur Publique”, which ranked all 577 members of parliament according to their political weight in the National Assembly, Abeille took 46th place during her term of office.

Abeille is the author of Law No. 2015-136 of February 9, 2015 on the transparent handling of information on exposure to electromagnetic radiation . She was also involved in the drafting of the Biodiversity Act.

Abeille also campaigned for animal welfare, from her come numerous laws and amendments, such as the prohibition of bullfighting , the status of wild animals and the ban on the feeding of ducks. Specifically, in 2014 she campaigned for the abolition of Article L521-1 paragraph 7 of the French Penal Code, which exempts bullfighting from the prohibition of serious abuse and cruelty to animals.

From March to September 2016 Abeille was a member of the investigative commission for slaughterhouses, which was deployed in the course of the revelations of the animal welfare organization L214 about animal abuse when handling farm animals. The final report of the commission led to the submission of the so-called Falorni Act , which was passed on January 12, 2016 and is colloquially known as Commission President Olivier Falorni .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Mme Laurence Abeille. Assemblée nationale (National Assembly), accessed April 14, 2019 (French).
  2. ↑ a b c Laurence Abeille: Laurence Abeille: Me connaître. Archived from the original on October 20, 2016 ; accessed on April 14, 2019 (French).
  3. ↑ Fontenay-sous-Bois, une ville à Vivre: Elus et permanences. Fontenay-sous-Bois , archived from the original on January 10, 2012 ; accessed on April 15, 2019 (French).
  4. ↑ Résultats des élections législatives 2012. Ministère de l'intérieur (French Ministry of the Interior), accessed on April 14, 2019 (French).
  5. ↑ C. Dubois: Laurence Abeille joue le rassemblement no logo à Fontenay - Saint-Mandé - Vincennes. 94 Citoyens, December 4, 2016, accessed April 15, 2019 (French).
  6. ↑ Résultats des élections législatives 2017. Ministère de l'intérieur (French Ministry of the Interior), accessed on April 15, 2019 (French).
  7. ↑ DESESSARD Jean: Ancien sénateur de Paris. Sénat, accessed April 16, 2019 (French).
  8. ↑ Nathalie Segaunes: Chez les Verts, l'influence est aussi une affaire de couples. L'Opinion, November 28, 2013, accessed April 14, 2019 (French).
  9. ↑ Premier classement Rumeur Publique de l'influence des Députés. Rumeur Publique, February 22, 2017, accessed April 15, 2019 (French).
  10. ↑ Questions sociales et santé: exposure aux ondes électromagnétiques. Assemblée nationale (National Assembly), accessed April 15, 2019 (French).
  11. ↑ Environment: Reconquête de la biodiversité. Assemblée nationale (National Assembly), June 21, 2018, accessed April 15, 2019 (French).
  12. ^ Laurence Abeille agit pour les animaux. L'observatoire Politique & animaux rend compte de l'action des politiques sur la condition des animaux, accessed on April 15, 2019 (French).
  13. ↑ Roger Lahana: Proposition de loi anti-corrida, l'une présence Aboutissement d'croissante of abolitionnistes sur le terrain. Huffington Post France, September 27, 2013, accessed April 15, 2019 (French).
  14. ^ Report of the National Assembly. (PDF; 1.7 MB) Assemblée nationale (National Assembly), September 20, 2016, accessed on April 15, 2019 (French).
  15. ^ Société: respect de l'animal en abattoir. Assemblée nationale (National Assembly), accessed April 15, 2019 (French).
personal data
SURNAME Abeille, Laurence
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French politician
DATE OF BIRTH June 17, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuilly-sur-Seine