Marie Lebec

Marie Lebec
Marie Lebec in 2017
Member of the National Assembly
for Yvelines's 4th constituency
Incumbent
Assumed office
8 July 2024
Preceded byDenis Bernaert
In office
21 June 2017 – 11 February 2024
Preceded byPierre Lequiller
Succeeded byDenis Bernaert
Minister Delegate for the Relations with Parliament
In office
11 January 2024 – 21 September 2024
Prime MinisterGabriel Attal
Preceded byFranck Riester
Succeeded byNathalie Delattre
Personal details
Born (1990-12-17) 17 December 1990 (age 34)
Vernon, France
Political partyRenaissance
Alma materInstitut d'études politiques de Bordeaux
Cardiff University

Marie Lebec (born 17 December 1990) is a French politician of La République En Marche! (LREM) who has been serving as Minister Delegate for Parliamentary Relations in the government of Prime Minister Gabriel Attal since 2024. She was previously a member of the French National Assembly since the 2017 elections, representing the department of Yvelines.[1] She is considered a close ally of President Emmanuel Macron.[2]

Early life

Marie Lebec was born on 17 December 1990 in Vernon, in the French department of Eure. She graduated from the Institut d'études politiques de Bordeaux in 2014 and in public affairs and from the Cardiff University in European and international affairs.

Professional career

Lebec has been a lobbyist for the consulting firm Euralia, from which she takes leave to stand for the legislative elections in 2017.[3]

Political career

In parliament, Lebec serves as member of the Committee on Economic Affairs. In addition to her committee assignments, she chairs the French-Ivorian Parliamentary Friendship Group.[4]

Since 2019, Lebec has been part of the LREM parliamentary group's leadership around its chairman Gilles Le Gendre.[5] In 2020, she assisted Le Gendre with coordinating the parliamentary group's support for the government's pension reform plans.[6]

Political positions

In July 2019, Lebec voted in favor of the French ratification of the European Union’s Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) with Canada.[7]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Elections législatives 2017" (in French). Ministry of the Interior. Retrieved 19 June 2017.
  2. ^ Cédric Pietralunga and Alexandre Lemarié (20 October 2017), La République en marche: Les snipers de la Macronie Le Monde.
  3. ^ Clément, Rémi (19 May 2017). "Elue à 26 ans, qui est Marie Lebec la nouvelle députée En Marche des Yvelines ?". Challenges (in French). Retrieved 27 November 2022.
  4. ^ Marie Lebec French National Assembly.
  5. ^ Mathilde Siraud (14 January 2019), Le groupe LaREM à l'Assemblée muscle son équipe de porte-parole Le Figaro.
  6. ^ Isabelle Ficek (16 January 2020), Retraites : les députés de la majorité qui vont porter le projet de loi à l'Assemblée Les Échos.
  7. ^ Maxime Vaudano (July 24, 2019), CETA : qui a voté quoi parmi les députés Le Monde.