Audrey Linkenheld, born 11 October 1973 in

Strasbourg Strasbourg (, , ; german: Straßburg ; gsw, label=Bas Rhin Alsatian, Strossburi , gsw, label=Haut Rhin Alsatian, Strossburig ) is the prefecture and largest city of the Grand Est region of eastern France and the official seat of the Eu ...

, is a French politician. She was the deputy for

Nord's 2nd constituency The 2nd constituency of Nord is a French legislative constituency in the Nord ''département''. Description Nord's 2nd constituency covers the eastern portion of Lille including the suburbs of Villeneuve-d'Ascq, Lezennes and Ronchin. Politi ...

from 2012 to 2017. Linkenheld began her political engagement as the national secretary of the

Young Socialist Movement The Movement of the Young Socialists (french: Mouvement des Jeunes Socialistes, MJS) or simply ''Jeunes Socialistes'' is the youth organisation of the Socialist Party of France. MJS was founded in 1993 as a formally independent youth organisation. ...

. From 2008, she was deputy mayor of

Lille Lille ( , ; nl, Rijsel ; pcd, Lile; vls, Rysel) is a city in the northern part of France, in French Flanders. On the river Deûle, near France's border with Belgium, it is the capital of the Hauts-de-France Regions of France, region, the Pref ...

, in charge of

housing Housing, or more generally, living spaces, refers to the construction and assigned usage of houses or buildings individually or collectively, for the purpose of shelter. Housing ensures that members of society have a place to live, whether it ...

. She successfully stood in the

2012 French legislative election Legislative elections took place on 10 and 17 June 2012 (and on other dates for small numbers of voters outside metropolitan France) to select the members of the 14th National Assembly of the Fifth Republic, a little over a month after the Fr ...

for

against another deputy mayor of Lille, Éric Quiquet. After the victory of

Benoît Hamon Benoît Hamon (; born 26 June 1967) is a French politician known for his former role within the Socialist Party (PS) and Party of European Socialists (PES) and his political party Génération.s. Hamon joined the Socialist Party in 1988 and ...

in the citizen's primary of 2017, she was named the leader (with Daniel Goldberg) of the "Politics of the city, housing" theme of Hamon's presidential campaign. In her National Assembly re-election attempt in 2017, she was eliminated (by a small margin) in the first round. She is on the board of

Sciences Po Lille Institut d'études politiques de Lille ( en, Lille Institute of Political Studies), officially referred to as Sciences Po Lille, is a grande école located in Lille, France. It is a part of the ''Conférence des Grandes Écoles''. It was created as ...

External links

Her page on the site of the National Assembly

References

1973 births Living people Women members of the National Assembly (France) Deputies of the 14th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic Politicians from Strasbourg Politicians from Lille 21st-century French women politicians Socialist Party (France) politicians {{France-politician-Socialist-stub