Élise Fajgeles (born 6 July 1970) is a French politician who served as the member of the
National Assembly
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for the
5th constituency of
Paris
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from 2017 to 2019. A member of
La République En Marche!
Renaissance (RE), previously known as La République En Marche ! (frequently abbreviated LREM, LaREM or REM; translated as "The Republic on the Move" or "Republic Forward"), or sometimes called simply En Marche ! () as its original name, is a l ...
(LREM), she replaced
Benjamin Griveaux as his
substitute upon his appointment as
Secretary of State to the
Minister of the Economy and Finance. Griveaux returned to Parliament two years later after stepping down from his
Government Spokesman position.
Early life
Fajgeles was born in
Sartrouville
Sartrouville () is a commune in the Yvelines department, ÃŽle-de-France, north central France. it is located in the north-western suburbs of Paris, from the center of Paris.
Name
In the Middle Ages the name Sartrouville was recorded in Medieva ...
,
Yvelines
Yvelines () is a department in the western part of the ÃŽle-de-France region in Northern France. In 2019, it had a population of 1,448,207.[Polish Jews
The history of the Jews in Poland dates back at least 1,000 years. For centuries, Poland was home to the largest and most significant Ashkenazi Jewish community in the world. Poland was a principal center of Jewish culture, because of the lo ...]
.
Political career
At the
2017 French legislative election
Legislative elections in France were held on 11 and 18 June 2017 (with different dates for voters overseas) to elect the 577 members of the 15th National Assembly of the Fifth Republic. They followed the two-round presidential election won by ...
, Fajgeles was the
substitute candidate for
Benjamin Griveaux in
Paris's 5th constituency
The 5th constituency of Paris ( French: ''Cinquième circonscription de Paris'') is a French legislative constituency in the department of Paris. Like the other 576 French constituencies, it elects one member of the National Assembly using the ...
. Fajgeles became a member of the
National Assembly
In politics, a national assembly is either a unicameral legislature, the lower house of a bicameral legislature, or both houses of a bicameral legislature together. In the English language it generally means "an assembly composed of the repre ...
following Griveaux's appointment to the government as
Secretary of State to the
Minister of the Economy and Finance on 22 July 2017. She left
Parliament
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in 2019.
References
External links
Official website
1970 births
Living people
People from Yvelines
Politicians from Paris
Jewish French politicians
French people of Polish-Jewish descent
21st-century French women politicians
Women members of the National Assembly (France)
Deputies of the 15th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
La République En Marche! politicians
Members of Parliament for Paris
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