Sergio Coronado (born 13 May 1970) is a French politician, former member of the French National Assembly representing French residents overseas.

Biography

Early life

Sergio Coronado left

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with his family after the coup d'état of General Pinochet in 1973. He grew up in

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, and arrived in

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in 1982. At the end of 2008, he won a scholarship in political science, and moved to Bogotá, Colombia. He attends the

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, and joins the ADFE-Français du Monde association. On 20 February 2008, he published a biography devoted to

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published by Fayard Edition. In June 2012, on the occasion of the Pride parade, he came out as gay on Twitter. This is the 2nd MP to do it publicly.

Political career

He joined the Greens in 1998, and joined the Executive College. He was re-elected for three successive terms in 2000, 2002 and 2004 in various capacities. He was notably co-spokesman of the party with Cécile Duflot from January 2005 to January 2008, after almost becoming national secretary at the Reims Federal Assembly in 2004. In 2002,

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chose him as director of communication and deputy campaign manager for his

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. From March 2001 to March 2008, he was the elected municipal of the

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on a list of rally of the left and ecologists. As deputy mayor, he was in charge of local democracy, associative life and neighborhood councils. At the 2011

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primary, he was

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's campaign director. Once invested by the ecologists, she makes it one of its four spokespersons, alongside

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Dominique Voynet Dominique Voynet (born 4 November 1958) is a French politician who is a member of Europe Écologie–The Greens. She is the former mayor of Montreuil and was a French senator for the ''département'' of Seine-Saint-Denis. Life Dominique Voy ...

and Michèle Rivasi, and its director of communication.

Member of the National Assembly

As part of an agreement between EELV and the PS, he is a candidate in the 2012 legislative elections for the

Second constituency for French residents overseas The second constituency for French residents overseas (French: ''Deuxième circonscription des Français établis hors de France'') is one of eleven constituencies representing French citizens living abroad. It was created by the 2010 redist ...

. On 17 June 2012, he was elected. On 15 April 2015, he voted against Article 2 of the Intelligence Act. 5 May 2015, he votes against the whole of this same project. After the November 2015 Paris attacks, Sergio Coronado is one of the six French deputies to vote against the extension of the States of emergency in France. On 30 November 2015, he is among the signatories of the Call of the 58: "We will demonstrate during the state of emergency". Supported by the

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and the Pirate Party, he is a candidate in the 2017 legislative elections for the

. On 18 June 2017, he was eliminated in the second round, ahead of

Paula Forteza Paula Forteza (born 8 August 1986) is a French politician who was elected to the National Assembly of France in the 2017 French legislative election as a member of La République En Marche!. She represents the Second constituency for French res ...

, the REM candidate.

References

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Biography

Early life

Political career

Member of the National Assembly

See also

References