Sophie Auconie

Sophie Auconie (2014)

Sophie Auconie (born August 19, 1963 in Dugny , Seine-Saint-Denis ) is a French politician ( NC , UDI). She was a member of the European Parliament from 2009 to 2014; since 2017 she has been a member of the French National Assembly .

Life

Auconie worked from 1993 to 2006 at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Indre-et-Loire department (where Tours is located), where she was director of economic development. She graduated in 2002 from the École supérieure de commerce et de management (ESCEM, "College of Commerce and Management") in Tours.

Auconie joined the Démocratie Liberale party in 1995 , but did not hold any political office or mandate. In the 2008 local elections she was elected to the Tours council for the Nouveau Center (NC). From 2009 she was a member of the NC Executive Committee. In the European elections in 2009 , she moved into the European Parliament via the list of the UMP (with which the NC was allied) in the constituency of the Massif central Center . There she sat in the Christian Democratic EPP Group . Until April 2011 she was a member of the Committee on Regional Development , then the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety . She was also a delegate in the EU-Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia Joint Parliamentary Committee. From November 2010 she was chairwoman of the NC in the Indre-et-Loire department.

In Tours, Auconie founded the centrist parliamentary group Nouvelle énergie pour Tours in 2011 , which she has headed ever since. Since 2012 she has been a member of the Union des démocrates et indépendants (UDI), in which several small parties of the middle class were dissolved. In June 2012, Auconie was elected co-chair of the Cercle français de l'eau and governor of the World Water Council (re-elected in 2015). In the 2014 local elections she was confirmed as a councilor in Tours. For the 2014 European elections she ran as the top candidate on the pro-European list of UDI and MoDem in the constituency of Massif central-Center, but missed re-election. Since 2014, Auconie has been Vice-Chairwoman of the UDI with responsibility for rejuvenation and greater participation of women in the party.

In the 2017 general election , Auconie was elected to the French National Assembly as a member of the 3rd constituency of Indre-et-Loire. It was also supported by the conservative Les Républicains party (successor to the UMP) and part of the La République en Marche party of President Emmanuel Macron , which had no candidate of its own in the constituency. She prevailed in the second ballot with 56.6% against the previous MP Marisol Touraine from the Parti socialiste . After the election, she joined the Les Constructifs group ("The Constructives"; renamed UDI, Agir et indépendants , UAI in November 2017 ), which positioned itself between the government camp and the opposition Républicains, and was elected deputy group chairman. She is the secretary of the Parliament's Committee on Sustainable Development and Spatial Planning. Auconie is a member of the National Council and Steering Committee of the European Movement France .

Web links

• Website by Sophie Auconie
• Entry on Sophie Auconie in the database of Members of the European Parliament

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1. ^ Entry on Sophie Auconie in the European Parliament 's database of deputies
2. ^ Sophie Auconie , UDI - Modem - Les Européens.
3. ^ Fabienne Marcel: Marisol Touraine (PS) battue dans la 3e circo d'Indre-et-Loire, Sophie Auconie (LR-UDI) élue députée. France 3 Center-Val de Loire, June 18, 2017.