Cathy Apourceau-Poly
{{short description| French Communist Party politician (born 1965)}}
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Cathy Apourceau-Poly (born 18 April 1965) is a French Communist Party politician and a member of the Senate of France since July 2018.
Biography
Apourceau-Poly was elected to the Regional Council of Nord-Pas-de-Calais in 2004{{cite web |language=fr|url=https://www.interieur.gouv.fr/Elections/Les-resultats/Regionales/elecresult__regionales_2004/(path)/regionales_2004/031/C2031L021.html |title=Résultats des élections régionales - Nord-Pas-de-Calais - 2004|website=interieur.gouv.fr}} and re-elected in 2010.{{cite web |language=fr|url=https://www.interieur.gouv.fr/Elections/Les-resultats/Regionales/elecresult__regionales_2010/(path)/regionales_2010/031/C2031L012.html |title=Résultats des élections régionales - Nord-Pas-de-Calais - 2010|website=interieur.gouv.fr}}
She was a member of the municipal council of Avion, Pas-de-Calais, where she administered the Communal Center for Social Action.{{Cite web|url=https://www.cathyapourceaupoly.fr/senatrice/|title = L'Humain d'Abord ! Au coeur de la République}}
She became a senator on 1 July 2018, after {{ill|Dominique Watrin|fr}}'s resignation.{{cite news|language=fr|author=Julia Hamlaoui|title=Cathy Apourceau-Poly, une nouvelle " sénatrice militante "|newspaper=L'Humanité|date=June 22, 2018|url=https://www.humanite.fr/cathy-apourceau-poly-une-nouvelle-senatrice-militante-657216|access-date=July 2, 2018}} She enlisted in the Communist, Republican, Citizen and Ecologist group and was a member of the Commission for Social Affairs.
She stood as the 54th candidate on Ian Brossat's list in the 2019 European Parliament election.{{cite web|language=fr|url=https://www.europedesgens.fr/vos_candidats|title=Vos candidats|website=europedesgens.fr|access-date=2019-10-19|archive-date=2019-05-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190520075653/https://www.europedesgens.fr/vos_candidats|url-status=dead}}{{cite news|url=https://www.lavoixdunord.fr/585710/article/2019-05-20/brexit-migrants-les-positions-des-candidats-communistes-aux-elections|title=Calais Brexit, migrants, les positions des candidats communistes aux élections européennes|date=May 20, 2019|newspaper=La Voix du Nord|access-date=June 12, 2019}}
References
{{Portal|Communism|France}}
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External links
- [https://www.senat.fr/senateur/apourceau_poly_cathy19760e.html Cathy Apourceau-Poly], French Senate official website
- [https://www.nossenateurs.fr/cathy-apourceau-poly Cathy Apourceau-Poly], NosSénateurs.fr {{in lang|fr}}
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Category:21st-century French women politicians
Category:Regional councillors of France
Category:French senators of the Fifth Republic
Category:Senators of Pas-de-Calais
Category:Politicians from Hauts-de-France
Category:French Communist Party politicians
Category:Women members of the Senate (France)
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