Catherine Barbaroux (; born 1 April 1949) is a French politician who previously served as the acting president of the political movement

En Marche! Renaissance (RE), previously known as La République En Marche ! (frequently abbreviated LREM, LaREM or REM; translated as "The Republic on the Move" or "Republic Forward"), or sometimes called simply En Marche ! () as its original name, is a l ...

, after she succeeded Emmanuel Macron following his election as President of France.

Early life

Catherine Barbaroux was born on 1 April 1949. Her parents were immigrants from Spain; her grandparents worked as miners in

Asturias Asturias (, ; ast, Asturies ), officially the Principality of Asturias ( es, Principado de Asturias; ast, Principáu d'Asturies; Galician-Asturian: ''Principao d'Asturias''), is an autonomous community in northwest Spain. It is coextensiv ...

. Her father was a member of the

French Communist Party The French Communist Party (french: Parti communiste français, ''PCF'' ; ) is a political party in France which advocates the principles of communism. The PCF is a member of the Party of the European Left, and its MEPs sit in the European Un ...

. Barbaroux graduated from Sciences Po in 1975.

Career

Barbaroux worked as an advisor to Trade Minister

Michel Crépeau Michel Crépeau (30 October 1930, Fontenay-le-Comte, Vendée – 30 March 1999, Paris) was a French centre-left politician. Born in 1930, barrister, he joined the Radical Party. When it split in 1972, he founded the Movement of Left Radical ...

from 1981 to 1986. She worked in human resources for Prisunic and Pinault-Printemps-Redoute (now known as Kering) from 1986 to 1993. She worked as an advisor to Employment Ministers Martine Aubry, Élisabeth Guigou, François Fillon and Jean-Louis Borloo from 1999 to 2005. She joined the Regional council (France), regional council of Île-de-France in 2005, and she later became its director of services. She was the president of the Association pour le droit à l'initiative économique (Adie), an employment organization, from 2011 to 2017. In May 2017, Barbaroux became the acting president of

Personal life

Barbaroux is married, with two children.

References

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