Pierre Person

Pierre Person (born 22 January 1989) is a French politician of La République En Marche! (LREM) who was elected to the National Assembly on 18 June 2017, representing Paris.[1] Within his parliamentary group, he is considered a close ally of President Emmanuel Macron.[2]

Pierre Person
Member of the National Assembly
for Paris's 6th constituency
Assumed office
21 June 2017
Preceded byCécile Duflot
Personal details
Born (1989-01-22) 22 January 1989
Nancy, France
NationalityFrench
Political partyLa République En Marche!
Alma materUniversity of Poitiers
University of Lorraine
Pantheon-Sorbonne University

Political career

During his studies at the University of Poitiers, Person volunteered as the local chairman of the left-wing National Union of Students of France (UNEF). He was also a member of the Socialist Party until 2012.[3] Ahead of the 2012 French presidential election, he worked for the campaign of Socialist candidate Dominique Strauss-Kahn.[4]

In 2015, Person co-founded "Les Jeunes avec Macron" (JAM) with three friends – Sacha Houlié, Florian Humez and Jean Gaborit –[5] which had more than 22,000 members by September 2017.[6] In March 2016, he helped launch “La Gauche Libre” (“The Free Left”), a think-tank advocating “left-wing liberalism” as represented by Emmanuel Macron.[7] He later joined Macron's campaign staff ahead of the 2017 presidential elections.[8]

Person has been a member of the National Assembly since the 2017 elections. In parliament, he first served on the Finance Committee from 2017 until 2018,[9] where he was the rapporteur on the Ministry of Culture's annual budget]].[10] Since 2019, he has been a member of both the Committee on Legal Affairs and the Committee on Sustainable Development and Spatial Planning.[11]

In November 2018, following the resignation of Christophe Castaner from the position as chairman of LREM, Person briefly considered a candidacy to succeed him but later withdrewn from the race for the party leadership;[12] instead, Stanislas Guerini was elected. Person later became Guerini's deputy.[13] In September 2020, he stepped down from that role because of disagreements over the direction of the party; he remained an LREM member.[14]

Political positions

In May 2018, Person co-sponsored an initiative in favour of a bioethics law extending to homosexual and single women free access to fertility treatments such as in vitro fertilisation (IVF) under France's national health insurance; it was one of the campaign promises of President Emmanuel Macron and marked the first major social reform of his five-year term.[15][16]

In 2019, Person was one of five members of the LREM parliamentary group who joined a cross-party initiative to legalize the distribution and use of cannabis.[17][18]

See also

References
  1. "Elections législatives 2017". Ministry of the Interior (in French). Retrieved 19 June 2017.
  2. Cédric Pietralunga and Alexandre Lemarié (20 October 2017), La République en marche: Les snipers de la Macronie Le Monde.
  3. Daphné Gastaldi, Coralie Schaub, Lilian Alemagna, Nathalie Raulin, Pierre-Henri Allain and Guillaume Gendron (19 June 2017), 11 nouvelles têtes LREM à l’Assemblée Libération.
  4. Alain Auffray (1 December 2018), Stanislas Guerini, un nouveau patron pour sortir LREM du coma politique Libération.
  5. Nicolas Chapuis (11 March 2016), collectif « Les Jeunes avec Macron » lance son think tank Le Monde.
  6. Daphné Gastaldi, Coralie Schaub, Lilian Alemagna, Nathalie Raulin, Pierre-Henri Allain and Guillaume Gendron (19 June 2017), 11 nouvelles têtes LREM à l’Assemblée Libération.
  7. Michel Rose (12 March 2016), French think-tank launch fans rumours of Macron's ambitions Reuters.
  8. Ingrid Melander and Elizabeth Pineau (5 June 2017), Macron factor set to leap from presidency to parliament Reuters.
  9. Pierre Person French National Assembly.
  10. Manon Rescan and Audrey Tonnelier (29 May 2018), Budget : les ministres au banc d’essai de l’Assemblée nationale Le Monde.
  11. Pierre Person French National Assembly.
  12. Manon Rescan (21 October 2018), Castaner fait ses adieux à La République en marche, les ambitions s’aiguisent pour le remplacer Le Monde.
  13. Alexandre Lemarié (1 December 2018), Le député Stanislas Guerini élu à la tête de La République en marche Le Monde.
  14. Louise Guillot (21 September 2020), Number 2 in Emmanuel Macron’s party steps down Politico Europe.
  15. Harriet Agnew (24 September 2019), France moves to extend IVF to gay and single women Financial Times.
  16. La PMA pour toutes, un acte d’égalité Libération, 29 May 2018.
  17. Harriet Agnew (20 June 2019), French MPs push to legalise distribution and use of cannabis Financial Times.
  18. Marylou Magal (19 June 2019), Les députés LREM Person et Taché favorables à la légalisation du cannabis Le Figaro.
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