Carole Bureau-Bonnard

{{Short description|French politician (born 1965)}}

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| office = Member of the National Assembly
for Oise's 6th constituency

| term_start = 21 June 2017

| predecessor = Patrice Carvalho

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| birth_place = La Fère

| nationality = French

| party = Renaissance

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| successor = Michel Guiniot

| term_end = 21 June 2022

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Carole Bureau-Bonnard (born 9 August 1965) is a French kinesiotherapist and politician who was elected to the National Assembly in the 2017 French legislative election, representing the department of Oise.{{Cite web|url=http://elections.interieur.gouv.fr/legislatives-2017/060/06006.html |title=Elections législatives 2017 |accessdate=19 June 2017 |work=Ministry of the Interior |language=French}} She is a member of Renaissance (RE).

Political career

In 2008, she was elected as a municipal councillor of Noyon and became, in 2010, first deputy mayor of the town. She is also elected to the community of communes of the Pays Noyonnais, of which she is vice-president.

Having previously been active for the Socialist Party, Bureau-Bonnard joined LREM in 2017.Aurélie Delmas (24 June 2017), [https://www.liberation.fr/apps/2017/07/galaxie-macron-assemblee/ La galaxie Macron sur les bancs de l’Assemblée] Libération, 9 September 2019.

In parliament, Bureau-Bonnard has been a member of the Defence Committee since 2017. From 2017 until 2019, she served as one of six vice-presidents of the National Assembly, under the leadership of president Richard Ferrand.Laure Equy (24 July 2019), [https://www.liberation.fr/france/2019/07/24/elections-lrem-a-l-assemblee-la-super-prime-au-sortant_1741825 Elections LREM à l'Assemblée : la super-prime au sortant] Libération, 9 September 2019. In this capacity, she was in charge of the parliament's international activities.[https://assembly.coe.int/nw/xml/News/News-View-EN.asp?newsid=7491&lang=2&cat=17 Carole Bureau-Bonnard: 'The Council of Europe, an irreplaceable forum for dialogue'] Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), press release of 24 May 2019.

She lost her seat in the second round of the 2022 French legislative election to National Rally candidate Michel Guiniot.

Political positions

In July 2019, Bureau-Bonnard voted in favour of the French ratification of the European Union’s Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) with Canada.Maxime Vaudano (July 24, 2019), [https://www.lemonde.fr/les-decodeurs/article/2019/07/24/ceta-qui-a-vote-quoi-parmi-les-deputes_5493039_4355770.html CETA : qui a voté quoi parmi les députés] Le Monde.

Controversy

In 2019, Bureau-Bonnard's office in Noyon was vandalized during anti-government protests of the Yellow vests movement.Sudip Kar-Gupta (2 August 2019), [https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-protests/french-farmers-dump-manure-outside-office-of-macron-party-lawmaker-idUSKCN1US0JC French farmers dump manure outside office of Macron party lawmaker] Reuters.

See also

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