Marie Lebec

Marie Lebec
Lebec in 2017
Minister Delegate for Parliamentary Relations
Assumed office
11 January 2024
Prime MinisterGabriel Attal
Preceded byFranck Riester
Member of the National Assembly for Yvelines's 4th constituency
Assumed office
21 June 2017
Preceded byPierre Lequiller
Personal details
Born (1990-12-17) 17 December 1990 (age 33)
Vernon, France
Political partyLa République En Marche!
Alma materSciences Po Bordeaux
Cardiff University

Marie Lebec (born 17 December 1990) is a French politician of La République En Marche! (LREM) who has been serving as Minister Delegate for Parliamentary Relations in the government of Prime Minister Gabriel Attal since 2024. She was previously a member of the French National Assembly since the 2017 elections, representing the department of Yvelines.[1] She is considered a close ally of President Emmanuel Macron.[2]

Early life[edit]

Marie Lebec was born on 17 December 1990 in Vernon, in the French department of Eure. She graduated from the Institut d'études politiques de Bordeaux in public affairs and from the Cardiff University in European and international affairs.

Professional career[edit]

Lebec has been a lobbyist for the consulting firm Euralia, from which she takes leave to stand for the legislative elections in 2017.[3]

Political career[edit]

In parliament, Lebec serves as member of the Committee on Economic Affairs. In addition to her committee assignments, she chairs the French-Ivorian Parliamentary Friendship Group.[4]

Since 2019, Lebec has been part of the LREM parliamentary group's leadership around its chairman Gilles Le Gendre.[5] In 2020, she assisted Le Gendre with coordinating the parliamentary group's support for the government's pension reform plans.[6]

Political positions[edit]

In July 2019, Lebec voted in favor of the French ratification of the European Union’s Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) with Canada.[7]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  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. ^ Clément, Rémi (19 May 2017). "Elue à 26 ans, qui est Marie Lebec la nouvelle députée En Marche des Yvelines ?". Challenges (in French). Retrieved 27 November 2022.
  4. ^ Marie Lebec French National Assembly.
  5. ^ Mathilde Siraud (14 January 2019), Le groupe LaREM à l'Assemblée muscle son équipe de porte-parole Le Figaro.
  6. ^ Isabelle Ficek (16 January 2020), Retraites : les députés de la majorité qui vont porter le projet de loi à l'Assemblée Les Échos.
  7. ^ Maxime Vaudano (July 24, 2019), CETA : qui a voté quoi parmi les députés Le Monde.