Aurore Bergé

Aurore Bergé (born 13 November 1986) is a French politician who has been serving as a member of the National Assembly since 2017, representing Yvelines's 10th constituency. She is considered a close ally of President Emmanuel Macron.[1]

Aurore Bergé
Member of the National Assembly
for Yvelines's 10th constituency
Assumed office
21 June 2017
Preceded byJean-Frédéric Poisson
Personal details
Born (1986-11-13) 13 November 1986
Paris, France
NationalityFrench
Political partyUnion for a Popular Movement (2002–2015)
The Republicans (2015–2017)
La République En Marche! (2017–present)
Alma materSciences Po

Career

A native of Paris, Bergé studied at Sciences Po. She became a member of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) in 2002;[2] when the party became The Republicans (LR) in 2015, she joined it. In the Republicans' primaries ahead of the 2017 presidential elections, she campaigned for Alain Juppé.[3]

Bergé joined La République En Marche! in 2017. She has also been a municipal councillor of Magny-les-Hameaux since the 2014 elections.[4] In parliament, Bergé serves as member of the Committee on Cultural Affairs and Education.[5]

From 2017 until 2019, Bergé served as one of her parliamentary group's spokespersons under the leadership of its successive chairmen Richard Ferrand and Gilles Le Gendre.[6]

Political positions

In the 2012 Union for a Popular Movement leadership election, Bergé supported François Fillon as the party's leader.[7]

In September 2018, following the appointment of François de Rugy to the government, Bergé supported the candidacy of Richard Ferrand for the presidency of the National Assembly.[8]

In September 2019, Bergé led (with Guillaume Chiche) a group of LREM members who advocated for of a bioethics law extending to homosexual and single women free access to fertility treatments such as in vitro fertilisation (IVF) under France's national health insurance; it was one of the campaign promises of President Emmanuel Macron and marked the first major social reform of his five-year term.[9][10]

In October 2019, Bergé caused controversy when she announced her intention to vote for a Republican draft law written by Éric Ciotti and banning the wearing of the hijab by women accompanying groups of students on school outings; as a response, five other LREM members – Coralie Dubost, Cécile Rilhac, Jean-Michel Mis, Stéphane Trompille and Eric Bothorel – disassociated themselves from her.[11]

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