Adrien Taquet (born 3 January 1977) is a

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politician of

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(LREM) who served as Secretary of State for Child Protection in the governments of successive Prime Ministers Édouard Philippe and

Jean Castex Jean Castex (; born 25 June 1965) is a French politician who was the country's Prime Minister from 3 July 2020 to 16 May 2022. He was a member of The Republicans (LR) until 2020, when he joined La République En Marche! (LREM). Castex served fo ...

from 2019 to 2022. From 2017 until 2019, he was a member of the

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, representing the

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Early career

From 2002 until 2004, Taquet worked as a parliamentary assistant to Dominique Strauss-Kahn, alongside

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and

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. From 2004 until 2013, Taquet worked at communications consultancy Havas. In 2013, he joined forces with Gabriel Gaultier on founding advertising agency Jésus and Gabriel, which had

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, Clan Campbell and Eurostar as clients.

Political career

Having been one of the founding members of

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, Taquet is credited with having created the party's visual identity and name in 2015. From 2017 until 2019, Taquet was a member of the

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, representing

. During that time, he served on the Committee on Social Affairs, where he focused on the subjects of disability, autism and the condition of prisoners. In addition to his committee assignments, he was an alternate member of the French delegation to

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, where served on the Committee on Rules of Procedure, Immunities and Institutional Affairs (2017-2018) and of the Sub-Committee on Media and Information Society (2017-2019). In January 2019, Taquet was appointed Secretary of State to Minister of Health

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. Amid revelations on the Jeffrey Epstein affair in 2019, Taquet and fellow cabinet member

Marlène Schiappa Marlène Schiappa (, ; born 18 November 1982) is a French writer and politician who served as Minister Delegate in charge of Citizenship, attached to the Minister of the Interior, in the government of Prime Minister Jean Castex (2020–2022) an ...

publicly called for an investigation to examine suspected rape and sexual abuse of under-age girls in France or abroad, in which perpetrators or victims of the crimes may have been French. Shortly after, Paris

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Rémy Heitz opened a preliminary investigation into possible crimes including rape of girls below the age of 15 and conspiracy to commit crimes punishable by at least five years in jail. In 2020, Taquet became one of the architects of the Castex government's reform of

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in France, by doubling France's paternity leave from 14 days to 28 days, with allowances paid for by the state, and by requiring fathers to take a week off with their newborn children in an effort to reduce inequalities in the first few months of children's lives. In late 2020, Taquet appointed

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to lead a government-mandated committee on sexual violence against children; she resigned shortly after a high-profile scandal involving her friend

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. In 2021, Macron directed Taquet and Minister of Justice

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to develop proposals for tightening laws regarding child sexual abuse.Elisa Braun (24 January 2021)
Macron vows to change law to protect children from abuse
'' Politico Europe''.

References

, - {{DEFAULTSORT:Taquet, Adrien 1977 births Living people Deputies of the 15th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic Renaissance (French political party) politicians Politicians from Paris Paris Nanterre University alumni Sciences Po alumni Secretaries of State of France Members of Parliament for Hauts-de-Seine

Early career

Political career

See also

References