Mathilde Panot

{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Mathilde Panot

| image = Mathilde Panot, députée du Val-de-Marne (cropped).jpg

| caption = Panot in 2020

| office = President of the La France Insoumise group
in the National Assembly

| term_start = 12 October 2021

| term_end =

| predecessor = Jean-Luc Mélenchon

| successor =

| office1 = Member of the National Assembly
for Val-de-Marne's 10th constituency

| term_start1 = 21 June 2017

| term_end1 =

| predecessor1 = Jean-Luc Laurent

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1989|01|15|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Tours, France

| party = La France Insoumise

| alma_mater = Sciences Po

}}

Mathilde Panot ({{IPA|fr|matild pano}}; born 15 January 1989) is a French left-wing politician who has been President of the La France Insoumise group in the National Assembly since October 2021. She was elected to the National Assembly in the 2017 legislative election, where she represents the 10th constituency of the Val-de-Marne department.{{cite web|url=http://www.francetvinfo.fr/elections/resultats/val-de-marne_94/val-de-marne_10eme-circonscription|title=Val-de-Marne - 10e circonscription, resultats élections législatives 2017|date=7 July 2024 |publisher=}}

Panot was the coordinator for La France Insoumise (FI) support groups ahead of the 2017 presidential election.{{cite web|url=http://www.leparisien.fr/elections/legislatives/legislatives-2017-les-resultats-du-second-tour-dans-la-10e-circonscription-du-val-de-marne-18-06-2017-7063476.php|title=Législatives 2017 : Mathilde Panot (FI), la seule élue insoumise, est la benjamine des députés du Val-de-Marne|date=18 June 2017|publisher=}}

Positions

Mathilde Panot has taken strong stances for changing the democratic institutions of France, calling for a new Republic,{{Cite web |date=2 May 2023 |title=Passer à la 6e République - Le Plan - La France insoumise |url=https://lafranceinsoumise.fr/2023/05/02/passer-a-la-6e-republique-le-plan/ |access-date=11 March 2024 |language=fr-FR}} based on more direct citizen participation and strengthening of the role of the Parliament.

Through the passing of the bill she put forward on 24 November 2022, Mathilde Panot was the first MP to initiate the enshrining of the right to abortion in the Constitution.{{Cite web |last1=Boiteau |first1=Victor |last2=Thomas |first2=Marlène |title=Les députés votent la proposition LFI d'inscrire l'IVG dans la Constitution |url=https://www.liberation.fr/politique/les-deputes-votent-la-proposition-lfi-dinscrire-livg-dans-la-constitution-20221124_QWHZXRET5ZDM3FH4GUZGCAE4WI/ |access-date=11 March 2024 |website=Libération |language=fr}} This political proposal was part of La France Insoumise programme since 2012.{{Citation |title=Discours de Jean-Luc Mélenchon à Bastille le 18 Mars 2012 | date=22 March 2012 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32A7WJtvPvA |access-date=11 March 2024 |language=en}} The parliamentary group then led by Jean-Luc Mélenchon made a few unsuccessful attempts to introduce it onto the National Assembly agenda in 2018 and 2019. However, after the shock caused by the Supreme Court overruling Roe v. Wade in the United-States of America, Mathilde Panot proposed it again in July 2022, forcing it onto the agenda through her group's niche parlementaire{{Cite web |last1=Boiteau |first1=Victor |last2=Thomas |first2=Marlène |title=Les députés votent la proposition LFI d'inscrire l'IVG dans la Constitution |url=https://www.liberation.fr/politique/les-deputes-votent-la-proposition-lfi-dinscrire-livg-dans-la-constitution-20221124_QWHZXRET5ZDM3FH4GUZGCAE4WI/ |access-date=11 March 2024 |website=Libération |language=fr}} (once every year each parliamentary group can decide of the session agenda). This parliamentary success was the first step of the process resulting in the modification of the Constitution on 8 March 2024.{{Cite news |date=4 March 2024 |title=IVG dans la Constitution : du texte de LFI au « souhait » de Macron, un parcours de dix-huit mois au Parlement |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2024/03/04/ivg-les-dix-huit-mois-qui-ont-abouti-a-la-revision-constitutionnelle_6219981_823448.html |access-date=11 March 2024 |work=Le Monde.fr |language=fr}}{{cite web|url=https://www.france24.com/en/france/20240423-top-french-far-left-mp-mathilde-panot-summoned-by-police-over-hamas-comments|title=Top French far-left MP Mathilde Panot summoned by police over Hamas comments|date=23 April 2024 |publisher=France24}}