Catherine Couturier is a French politician. A member of

La France Insoumise La France Insoumise (FI or LFI; ; "France Unbowed") is a left-wing populist political party in France, 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 ai ...

, she currently serves as

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deputy for Creuse's constituency.

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 ...

, in

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. She completed her tertiary education in

Limoges Limoges (, , ; oc, Lemòtges, locally ) is a city and Communes of France, commune, and the prefecture of the Haute-Vienne Departments of France, department in west-central France. It was the administrative capital of the former Limousin region ...

. 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 was a member of the National Assembly for the 4th constituency of Bouches-du-Rhône from 2017 to 2022. He led the ''La France Insoumise'' group in the Natio ...

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

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, spending several years as deputy mayor. In the

2022 French legislative election Legislative elections in France were held on 12 and 19 June 2022 to elect the 577 members of the 16th National Assembly of the Fifth French Republic. The elections took place following the 2022 French presidential election, which was held in ...

, she was the

candidate for Creuse's sole constituency, as part of the New Ecological and Social People's Union (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 Jean-Baptiste Moreau (c.1656 – 24 August 1733) was a French composer of the baroque period. He served as the master of music at the court of Louis XIV. His compositional output includes several motets and music for the theatre. Life and care ...

. She currently sits on the Sustainable Development, Spatial and Regional Planning Committee.

References

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