Marine Tondelier (; born 23 August 1986) is a French politician secrétaire-nationale (2022-present) EELV. She was elected to this role after winning 90.8% of the vote in the second round of the party's congress on 10 December 2022.

Early life

Tondelier was born in

Pas-de-Calais The Pas-de-Calais (, ' strait of Calais'; ; ) is a department in northern France named after the French designation of the Strait of Dover, which it borders. It has the most communes of all the departments of France, with 890, and is the ...

, France on 23 August 1986. She was a municipal councillor in

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. In 2024, she was head of

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In June 2023, a

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union said they were at war with "vermin". Unions representing half of French police added that unless officers enjoy still greater legal protection and more resources in the future, "tomorrow we will be in resistance". Marine Tondelier described it as “an appeal for civil war”. On 12 November 2023, she took part in the '' March for the Republic and Against Antisemitism'' in Paris in response to the rise in antisemitism since the start of the

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1986 births Living people Europe Ecology – The Greens politicians 21st-century French women politicians Politicians from Pas-de-Calais {{France-politician-stub