Marie Guévenoux | |
|---|---|
 Guévenoux in 2018 | |
| Minister Delegate for the Overseas | |
| In office 8 February 2024 – 21 September 2024 | |
| Prime Minister | Gabriel Attal |
| Preceded by | Philippe Vigier |
| Succeeded by | François-Noël Buffet |
| Member of theNational Assembly forEssonne's9th constituency | |
| In office 21 June 2017 – 8 March 2024 | |
| Preceded by | Thierry Mandon |
| Succeeded by | Éric Husson |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1976-11-02)2 November 1976 (age 49) Amiens, France |
| Political party | The Republicans (until 2017) Renaissance (since 2017) |
Marie Guévenoux (French pronunciation:[maʁiɡevənu]; born 2 November 1976) is a French politician who has served asMinister Delegate for the Overseas in thegovernment ofPrime MinisterGabriel Attal from February to September 2024.[1] A member ofRenaissance (RE, formerly La République En Marche!), she previously was adeputy in theNational Assembly from 2017 to 2024, representing theEssonnedepartment.[2]
InThe Republicans'primaries ahead of the2017 presidential election, Guévenoux was part of candidateAlain Juppé's campaign staff.[3] WhenFrançois Fillon was chosen as the party's candidate, she became his campaign team's administrative and financial director. Amid theFillon affair, however, she resigned from that position and left the Republicans' campaign.[4]
In the2017 French legislative election, Guévenoux joined the LREM campaign and became a member of the National Assembly. In parliament, she served on theCommittee on Legal Affairs.[5] She was also a secretary of the Bureau of the National Assembly of the15th legislature of the French Fifth Republic. In early 2018, she was one of several LREM members who joined an informal parliamentary working group onIslam set up byFlorent Boudié in order to contribute to the government's bill aimed at better organising and supervising the financing of the Muslim faith in France.[6] Later that year, she co-chaired (withÉric Bothorel) a group of some twenty parliamentarians involved in organizing a nation-wide consultation process in response to theYellow vests movement.[7]
In addition to her parliamentary work, Guévenoux was a member of the Commission consultative du secret de la défense nationale (CCSDN), an independent authority in charge ofdeclassification of documents.[8]
From November 2017 on, Guévenoux was part of LREM's 20-member executive board under the leadership of the party's chairmanChristophe Castaner.[9]
In July 2019, Guévenoux voted in favour of the French ratification of theEuropean Union’sComprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) withCanada.[10]
