Maxette Grisoni-Pirbakas (; born 14 April 1975) is a French politician from

Guadeloupe Guadeloupe is an Overseas departments and regions of France, overseas department and region of France in the Caribbean. It consists of six inhabited islands—Basse-Terre Island, Basse-Terre, Grande-Terre, Guadeloupe, Grande-Terre, Marie-Galant ...

. She was elected as a

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for the

National Rally The National Rally (, , RN), known as the National Front from 1972 to 2018 (, , FN), is a French far-right politics, far-right political party, described as right-wing populist and French nationalism, nationalist. It is the single largest Nat ...

(RN) in the 2019 election. She served as spokesperson for the RN from March 2019 to February 2022, when she defected to join the

Reconquête Reconquête (, ), stylised as Reconquête! (often shortened as R!), is a far-right political party in France founded in late 2021 by Éric Zemmour, who has since served as its leader. He was a candidate in the 2022 presidential election, in w ...

party.

Biography

She is the leader of the Fédération nationale des syndicats d'exploitants agricoles in Guadeloupe. She has served in the

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for the

(RN) since

2019 This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year. Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ...

. She was her party's candidate in the

2021 French regional elections Regional elections were held in France on 20 June and 27 June 2021. At stake were the regional councils in metropolitan and overseas France including the Corsican Assembly, Assembly of French Guiana and Assembly of Martinique, all for a six-ye ...

. She defected to the

party in February 2022, endorsing

Éric Zemmour Éric Justin Léon Zemmour (; born 31 August 1958) is a French History of far-right movements in France, far-right politician, essayist, writer and political journalist and pundit. He was an editor and panelist on ''Face à l'Info'', a daily show ...

in the

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. She was ordered to pay more than €160,000 to a former parliamentary assistant in 2024.

References

Living people 1973 births National Rally politicians French trade unionists French women trade unionists People from Les Abymes Black French politicians French people of Guadeloupean descent MEPs for France 2019–2024 21st-century French women politicians Reconquête politicians {{France-politician-FN-stub