Michèle Peyron

Michèle Peyron (born 22 July 1961) is a French politician of La République En Marche! (LREM) who has been serving as a member of the French National Assembly since the 2017 elections, representing the department of Seine-et-Marne.[1]

Michèle Peyron
Member of the French National Assembly for Seine-et-Marne's 9th constituency
Assumed office
21 June 2017
Preceded byGuy Geoffroy
Personal details
Born (1961-07-22) 22 July 1961
Nîmes , France
Political partyLa République En Marche!

Political career

In the 1995 municipal elections, Peyron first became a town councillor in Var, at the time representing the Socialist Party (PS). In May 2016, she joined En Marche! and became head of the movement's local branch in Seine-et-Marne.[2]

In parliament, Peyron serves as member of the Committee on Social Affairs. In addition to her committee assignments, she is part of the French-Vietnamese Parliamentary Friendship Group.[3] In 2018, she also joined a parliamentary working group on the G5 Sahel, which is studying how to help Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania and Niger confront terrorist groups in their region.[4]

In March 2020, LREM group chairman Gilles Le Gendre appointed Peyron and Mickaël Nogal as the parliamentary majority's rapporteurs on economic and health emergency measures amid the COVID-19 pandemic in France.[5]

Political positions

In a 2017 parliamentary debate on extending immunization coverage in France, Peyron publicly recounted her personal experience of losing a child at birth in 1986 due to lack of prior immunization.[6]

Personal life

Peyron has two children.[7]

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