Alexis Corbière (; born 17 August 1968) is a French politician. A member of

La France Insoumise La France Insoumise (FI or LFI; ; "France Unbowed") is a left-wing populist political party in France, launched in 2016 by Jean-Luc Mélenchon, then a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) and former co-president of the Left Party (PG). It aims ...

(FI), he has been member of the

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for the 7th constituency of the

Seine-Saint-Denis () is a department of France located in the Grand Paris metropolis in the region. In French, it is often referred to colloquially as ' or ' ("ninety-three" or "nine three"), after its official administrative number, 93. Its prefecture is Bobig ...

department since

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. Corbière is also a spokesperson for La France Insoumise and the party's leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon in the

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. A former member of the Revolutionary Communist League from 1993 to 1997, Corbière then joined the

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where he was elected as the deputy mayor for the

12th arrondissement of Paris The 12th arrondissement of Paris (''XIIe arrondissement'') is one of the 20 arrondissements of the capital city of France. In spoken French, it is referred to as ''le douzième'' ("the twelfth"). Situated on the right bank of the River Seine, it is ...

in 2001 and would continue to hold this position until 2014. In 2008, Corbière, Mélenchon, and several others left the PS and founded the Left Party. He was also elected to the

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the same year. He headed FI's first national convention in the suburbs of

Lille Lille ( , ; nl, Rijsel ; pcd, Lile; vls, Rysel) is a city in the northern part of France, in French Flanders. On the river Deûle, near France's border with Belgium, it is the capital of the Hauts-de-France region, the prefecture of the N ...

in 2016.

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1968 births Living people Deputies of the 15th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic La France Insoumise politicians Revolutionary Communist League (France) politicians Socialist Party (France) politicians Left Party (France) politicians People from Béziers University of Montpellier alumni Paris Diderot University alumni Politicians from Occitania (administrative region) Deputies of the 16th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic Members of Parliament for Seine-Saint-Denis {{France-politician-Socialist-stub

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