Alma Dufour (; born 6 May 1990) is a French politician. She is a member of the France Insoumise party and has been a Member of Parliament for 4th electoral district for the

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department of

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since

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Biography

Youth and early career

Dufour was born on 6 May 1990 in

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. She grew up in the

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, where her parents lived in low-income housing. In 2012, she graduated with a law degree from Paris-Panthéon-Sorbonne University, which she completed with a master's degree in geopolitics, then in environmental sciences at

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until 2015. She earned her living as an employee of

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, then as a waitress, while working for the

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(EEB) in

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on the circular economy (Negotiation of the Waste Framework Directive).

Environmental commitments

In 2015, during COP21 in Paris, she joined the Alternatiba/Action non-violente COP21 movement. She was then hired by Friends of the Earth France, and went on to become spokesperson for this

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from 2017 to January 2021. From late 2018, Alma Dufour took part in the

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, during which she was the victim of police violence. Alongside this activism, Alma Dufour has also carried out institutional lobbying. Under her impetus, Friends of the Earth supported local struggles against a dozen

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mega-warehouse projects in France, including the Petit-Couronne project in Seine-Maritime. It was involved in actions to block Amazon sites and occupied the land of future projects between 2019 and 2022 until the multinational abandoned five of these warehouse projects. She also highlighted the study by economists Ano Kuhanathan and Florence Mouradian, which argued that e-commerce multinationals are responsible for the loss of 82,000 jobs in France. Following her experience in the fight against Amazon, Alma Dufour decided to specialize in the interaction between ecology and employment. She combatted the idea that ecology could be a cause of job destruction, and also fought against the relocation of activities. She is an active member of the ''Plus Jamais ça!'' (Never Again) collective, which brings together

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, Friends of the Earth, ATTAC and

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: CGT, Confédération paysanne, Solidaires, FSU.

Member of Parliament

In January 2021, she decided to leave her position as campaign manager and spokesperson for Friends of the Earth to join

La France Insoumise La France Insoumise (LFI or FI; , ) is a left-wing political party in France. It was launched in 2016 by Jean-Luc Mélenchon, then a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) and former co-president of the Left Party (PG). It aims to implement th ...

and to support Jean-Luc Mélenchon's presidential campaign. In May 2022, she was nominated as candidate for

NUPES The New Ecological and Social People's Union (, NUPES) was a left-wing electoral alliance of political parties in France. Formed on May Day 2022, the alliance included La France Insoumise (LFI), the Socialist Party (PS), the French Communist Part ...

, in the fourth constituency of Seine-Maritime, and was elected deputy. She becomes a member of the National Assembly's Finance Committee. Within LFI, she has been in charge of communications, public engagement, and mobilisation efforts since December 2022. In the 2024 July snap election, she was re-elected as the NFP candidate in Seine-Maritime's fourth constitucency. Seating again in the LFI group, she is a member of the National Assembly's National Defence and Armed Forces Committee.

References

1990 births Living people Members of Parliament for Seine-Maritime People from Auch Deputies of the 16th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic 21st-century French women politicians Women members of the National Assembly (France) La France Insoumise politicians French environmentalists French women environmentalists Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University alumni Politicians from Normandy {{France-politician-stub