Mathilde Panot

A member of La France Insoumise, she has sat in the National Assembly for Val-de-Marne since 2017 and has led the party's parliamentary group since 2021. She is named in the race on whether she advances to the second round of the next French presidential election.

Career

Panot was born on 15 January 1989 in Tours and earned a master's degree in international relations at Sciences Po in 2013. She volunteered with the anti-poverty organisation ATD Quart Monde from the age of eighteen and worked as a team manager at the social enterprise VoisinMalin in Grigny. She was elected to the National Assembly for Val-de-Marne's 10th constituency in June 2017, became first vice-president of the La France Insoumise group in June 2019 and has presided over it since October 2021.

Positions

Panot has led parliamentary campaigns on a nuclear phase-out (2018), water rights (2021) and abortion rights (2022); the last led to abortion rights being written into the French Constitution, ratified in March 2024. Wikipedia describes her party, La France Insoumise, as democratic socialist, eco-socialist and anti-neoliberal.

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