Marie Tamarelle-Verhaeghe

Marie Tamarelle-Verhaeghe
Member of the National Assembly for Eure's 3rd constituency
In office 21 June 2017 – 21 June 2022
Preceded by	Hervé Morin
Succeeded by	Kévin Mauvieux
Personal details
Born	Marie Tamarelle (1962-09-27) 27 September 1962 (age 62) Le Petit-Quevilly, France
Political party	La République En Marche! (2017–present)
Other political affiliations	Union of Democrats and Independents (until 2017) Democratic Movement (2017)
Profession	Physician

Marie Tamarelle-Verhaeghe (nee Tamarelle; born 27 September 1962) is a French physician and politician who represented the 3rd constituency of the Eure department in the National Assembly from 2017 to 2022.[1] A member of La République En Marche! (LREM), she was elected to Parliament as a member of the Democratic Movement (MoDem).

Political career

Tamarelle-Verhaeghe has served as a departmental councillor of Eure for the canton of Bourg-Achard since 2015. She held one of the departmental council's vice presidencies from 2015 to 2017.

When the Union of Democrats and Independents endorsed François Fillon of The Republicans as its candidate for the 2017 French presidential election, Tamarelle-Verhaeghe left the party in February 2017 and joined En Marche instead.

In Parliament, Tamarelle-Verhaeghe serves on the Committee on Social Affairs. In addition to her committee assignments, she is part of the French-Cameroonian Parliamentary Friendship Group and the French-Madagascar Parliamentary Friendship Group.[2]

In 2020, Tamarelle-Verhaeghe joined the En Commun (EC) association led by Barbara Pompili within the Ensemble Citoyens alliance formed around the La République En Marche! party of President Emmanuel Macron.[3]

In the 2022 French legislative election, she lost her seat to Kévin Mauvieux of the National Rally in the second round.

Political positions

In July 2019, Tamarelle-Verhaeghe voted in favour of the French ratification of the European Union's Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) with Canada.[4]

Also in 2019, Tamarelle-Verhaeghe abstained from a vote on 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.[5][6]

Other activities

• National Institute for Cancer (INCa), Member of the Board of Directors (appointed in 2018)[7]

References

1. "Eure - 3e circonscription: Résultats des élections législatives 2022 - en direct". Franceinfo (in French). Retrieved 11 July 2022.
2. "Mme Marie Tamarelle-Verhaeghe - Mandat clos - Eure (3e circonscription)". Assemblée nationale. Retrieved 11 July 2022.
3. Thierry, Maël (22 May 2020). "L'appel de 46 députés LREM : « Nous voulons peser de l'intérieur »". L'Obs (in French). Retrieved 11 July 2022.
4. Vaudano, Maxime (24 July 2019). "CETA : qui a voté quoi parmi les députés". Le Monde.fr (in French). Retrieved 11 July 2022.
5. Agnew, Harriet (24 September 2019). "France moves to extend IVF to gay and single women". Financial Times. Retrieved 11 July 2022.
6. Cordier, Solène; Carriat, Julie (15 October 2019). "Au-delà des lignes partisanes, large adoption du projet de loi de bioéthique à l'Assemblée". Le Monde.fr (in French). Retrieved 11 July 2022.
7. "Paris-Normandie - Info et actu locale, régionale et nationale". Paris-Normandie (in French). 14 February 2018. Retrieved 11 July 2022.