Jennifer de Temmerman (born 16 February 1977) is a French politician who served as a member of the
French National Assembly
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from
2017
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Events January
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to
2022
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, where she represented the
15th constituency of the Nord.
Early life and education
Born 16 February 1977 in
Valenciennes
Valenciennes (, also , , ; ; or ; ) is a communes of France, commune in the Nord (French department), Nord Departments of France, department, Hauts-de-France, France.
It lies on the Scheldt () river. Although the city and region experienced ...
, de Temmerman grew up in a former "
coron" of
Anzin
Anzin (; older ; ) is a commune in the Nord department, Hauts-de-France, France.Commune d' ...
, before moving to
Aulnoy-lez-Valenciennes
Aulnoy-lez-Valenciennes (, literally ''Aulnoy near Valenciennes''; ) is a commune in the Nord department in northern France.
Population
Heraldry
See also
*Communes of the Nord department
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.
De Temmerman was first apprenticed in bookstores in parallel with her university studies in Classics at the
Charles de Gaulle University – Lille III. After obtaining her CAPES, she taught in classical letters for twelve years.
Member of the National Assembly
On
18 June 2017, de Temmerman was elected in the
15th constituency of the Nord by obtaining 60.76% of votes in the second round against the
FN's candidate.
In parliament, de Temmerman served on the Committee on Sustainable Development.
In addition to her committee assignments, de Temmerman was a member of the French delegation to the
Parliamentary Assembly of the
Council of Europe
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from 2017 to 2022. In this capacity, she served on the Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development; the Sub-Committee on Public Health and Sustainable Development; and the Sub-Committee on the
European Social Charter
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. She was also the Assembly's
rapporteur
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on the implementation of the
Sustainable Development Goals
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(SDGs).
In November 2019, de Temmerman left the
LREM group to join the non-subscribers, evoking the "culmination of a process". She said she had questioned "on the meaning of
erbelonging to
La République En Marche since the departure of
Nicolas Hulot
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from the government", and had "a click" while speaking to the Assembly, without having premeditated, against an amendment, tabled by surprise, reducing by 15 million euros the budget of state medical aid. In May 2020, she was one of the 17 initial members of the short-lived
Ecology Democracy Solidarity group in the National Assembly, but left shortly after to become part of the
Liberties and Territories
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group.
Political positions
In April 2018, de Temmerman joined other co-signatories around
Sébastien Nadot in officially filing a request for a commission of inquiry into the legality of French weapons sales to the
Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen, days before an official visit of
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman
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to Paris.
In September 2018, following the appointment of
François de Rugy
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People with the given name
* François Amoudruz (1926–2020), French resistance fighter
* Voltaire, Fran ...
to the government, de Temmerman supported the candidacy of
Barbara Pompili
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Pompili has previously served as member of the National Assembly for the 2nd c ...
as president of the National Assembly.
In 2019, de Temmerman joined an international group of parliamentarians in a joint call for a body to strengthen the democratic representation of the world's citizens in global affairs and the UN's decision-making.
In July 2019, de Temmerman decided not to align with her parliamentary group's majority and became one of 52 LREM members who abstained from a vote on the French ratification of the
European Union
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’s
Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement
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(CETA) with
Canada
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.
In November 2019, de Temmerman denounced the government's new immigration plan and declared in the
National Assembly
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: "Are we going this morning, I tell you, to complete humanism? ". She co-signed a platform with ten other LREM deputies to oppose the government's measures on immigration concerning health and especially state medical aid (AME), pleading not to give in to urgency and ease ».
See also
*
2017 French legislative election
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References
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1977 births
Living people
Deputies of the 15th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Renaissance (French political party) politicians
21st-century French women politicians
Place of birth missing (living people)
Women members of the National Assembly (France)