Hugues Renson

Hugues Renson (born 11 February 1978) is a French politician of La République En Marche! (LREM) who has been serving as Vice President of the National Assembly of France since 28 June 2017.

Hugues Renson
Vice President of the National Assembly
Assumed office
28 June 2017
Preceded byDavid Habib
Member of the National Assembly
for Paris's 13th constituency
Assumed office
21 June 2017
Preceded byJean-François Lamour
Personal details
Born (1978-02-11) 11 February 1978
Paris, France
NationalityFrench
Political partyLa République En Marche!
Alma materSciences Po

Education and early career

Renson graduated from Sciences Po in 2001 and was the social affairs councillor to President Jacques Chirac (2004–2007).

Political career

In the 2012 presidential elections, Renson publicly endorsed the Socialist Party's candidate François Hollande.[1] Similarly, he voted for Socialist candidate Anne Hidalgo, a family friend, in the 2014 Paris municipal election.[2]

Renson later joined La République En Marche![3] and was elected to the National Assembly during the legislative election of 2017, as the member for Paris's 13th constituency, defeating incumbent Jean-François Lamour of The Republicans party.[4] He took office on 21 June, and was elected a week later as one six vice presidents of the National Assembly, a rare event for a one-term member. He also serves on the Committee on Foreign Affairs. In addition to his committee assignments, he is a member of the French-Greek Parliamentary Friendship Group and the French-Lebanese Parliamentary Friendship Group.[5]

Ahead of the 2020 Paris municipal election, Renson failed to win his party's nomination as candidate unseat Hidalgo; he subsequently endorsed Cédric Villani.[6]

Political positions

In May 2018, Renson co-sponsored an initiative in favour of legalizing assisted reproductive technology (ART) for all women (singles, heterosexual couples or lesbian couples).[7]

Led by Renson, Aurélien Taché and Matthieu Orphelin, a group of around 20 members of the LREM parliamentary group was established in late 2018 with a "wish to express a humanist, social and ecological sensibility and to better raise citizens' concerns"; the initiative was widely interpreted as the launch of a left-wing faction within the group.[8]

In July 2019, Renson voted in favor of the French ratification of the European Union’s Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) with Canada.[9]

gollark: Unfortunately, cool nuclear tech isn't well developed/deployed because people are utter dodecahedra about it and most regulation is bad.
gollark: The energy cost is similar regardless of where the computers are if idle power is low.
gollark: But most people don't actually care, visibly.
gollark: I don't think million-qubit things exist and there are fundamental physical limits on stuff.
gollark: I don't really like cloud stuff for privacy reasons and because it stops me from getting lots of cool hardware as used.

References
  1. Nathalie Segaunes (16 November 2016), Hugues Renson, de Chirac à Macron, en passant par Hollande... L'Opinion.
  2. Caroline Vigoureux (19 July 2019), Anne Hidalgo et Hugues Renson, Paris pour pari L'Opinion.
  3. Jérôme, Béatrice (11 May 2017). "Renson, chiraquien d'En marche !, face à Lamour, chiraquien de LR". Le Monde. Retrieved 24 June 2017.
  4. "Elections législatives 2017". Ministry of the Interior (in French). Retrieved 19 June 2017.
  5. Hugues Renson French National Assembly.
  6. Denis Cosnard (10 July 2019), Elections municipales à Paris : Benjamin Griveaux choisi pour représenter LRM Le Monde.
  7. La PMA pour toutes, un acte d’égalité Libération, 29 May 2018.
  8. Mathilde Siraud (20 December 2018), Des députés LaREM s'organisent pour peser Le Figaro.
  9. Maxime Vaudano (24 July 2019), CETA : qui a voté quoi parmi les députés Le Monde.
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