Jean-Michel Fauvergue
{{short description|French politician (born 1957)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2020}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Jean-Michel Fauvergue
| image = Jean-Michel Fauvergue.jpg
| office = Member of the National Assembly
for Seine-et-Marne's 8th constituency
| term_start = 21 June 2017
| term_end = 21 June 2022
| predecessor = Eduardo Rihan-Cypel
| birth_name =
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1957|01|31|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Bages, France
| nationality = French
| occupation = Police commander
| party = Renaissance (2017–present)
| successor = Hadrien Ghomi
}}
Jean-Michel Fauvergue ({{IPA|fr|ʒamiʃɛl fovɛʁɡ}}; born 31 January 1957) is a French former police commander and politician who served in the National Assembly from 2017 to 2022, representing the 8th constituency of the Seine-et-Marne department.[https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-40178118 French election: Macron team complete rout with Assembly win] BBC News, 19 June 2017.{{Cite web|url=http://elections.interieur.gouv.fr/legislatives-2017/077/07708.html |title=Elections législatives 2017 |access-date=19 June 2017 |work=Ministry of the Interior |language=French}} He is a member of Renaissance (RE, formerly La République En Marche!) which he joined in 2017.
Early career
Before entering politics, Fauvergue was the commander of the RAID special police forces unit (2013–2017) which carried out the raids in response to the January and November 2015 Paris attacks.{{cite news |last1=Jerusalem Post |title=French Commandos in anti ISIS raid |url=https://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/ISIS-Threat/French-commandos-in-anti-ISIS-raid-learned-methods-from-Israeli-special-forces-434672 |newspaper=Jerusalem Post |access-date=9 December 2018}}
Political career
As a parliamentarian, Fauvergue served on the Committee on Legal Affairs. Together with Alice Thourot, he co-authored a 2018 report with more than 70 recommendations on how to support security forces and the Municipal Police in France.Annabelle Timsit (12 September 2018), [https://qz.com/1386042/france-is-proposing-to-give-all-local-cops-guns/ France is proposing to give all local cops guns] Quartz. In 2020, he served as co-capporteur (alongside Thourot) on a law proposed by Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin to criminalize the dissemination of images showing law enforcement officers with the intention of causing harm to them.Sébastien Tronche and Etienne Baldit (13 November 2020), [https://www.liberation.fr/politiques/2020/11/13/loi-securite-globale-darmanin-veut-durcir-le-texte-et-introduire-le-floutage-des-visages-des-policie_1805462 Loi «sécurité globale» : Darmanin veut durcir le texte et introduire le floutage des visages des policiers] Libération.
Political positions
In July 2019, Fauvergue voted in favor of the French ratification of the European Union’s Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) with Canada.Maxime Vaudano (24 July 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.
See also
References
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Category:Deputies of the 15th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Category:Renaissance (French political party) politicians
Category:People from Pyrénées-Orientales
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