Catherine Couturier is a French politician. A member of

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, she served as

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deputy for Creuse's constituency from 2022 to 2024.

Biography

Couturier was born on 27 February 1959 in

Guéret Guéret (; Occitan: ''Garait'') is a commune and the prefecture of the Creuse department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in central France. Geography Guéret is a light industrial town, the largest in the department, with a big woodland a ...

, in

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. She completed her tertiary education in

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. She later worked as a technician for France Télécom S.A., and was active in the General Confederation of Labour. She was a member of the

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until 2016, when she left to join the newly-founded left-wing party

, led by

Jean-Luc Mélenchon Jean-Luc Antoine Pierre Mélenchon (; born 19 August 1951) is a French politician who has been the ''de facto'' leader of La France Insoumise (LFI) since it was established in 2016. He was the Deputy (France), deputy in the National Assembly ( ...

. From 2001 to 2020, she served as a municipal councillor in

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, spending several years as deputy mayor. In the

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, she was the

candidate for Creuse's sole constituency, as part of the

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(NUPES) coalition. She finished with 26,37% of the vote in the first round of the elections, qualifying for the second round. In the second round, she finished with 51,44% of the vote, defeating

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incumbent Jean-Baptiste Moreau. She currently sits on the

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Couturier, Catherine Living people Deputies of the 16th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic La France Insoumise politicians People from Guéret 1959 births