Buon Huong Tan ( zh, 陈文雄; born 10 March 1967) is a French politician formerly serving as the member of the

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for the 9th constituency of

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since 2017. 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), his constituency covers part of the 13th arrondissement. Tan lost his reelection bid in the

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Family and youth

Tan arrived in France as a refugee from

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in 1975, as his

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family fled the

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. They settled in

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, before he moved to Paris for his studies. He then joined his two sisters in working for their father's business.

Political career

In Parliament, Tan serves as member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs. In addition to his committee assignments, he is the president of the French-Chinese Parliamentary Friendship Group. In a ranking published by ''

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'' in early 2021, Tan was ranked as one of the least active members of the National Assembly between 2017 and 2020, having participated in only 10 percent of all parliamentary votes. In January 2022, Tan was the only deputy to vote against a cross-party resolution recognizing and condemning the “genocidal nature of the systematic political violence and crimes against humanity currently perpetrated by China against the

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.“ Buon Tan is a member of several

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-affiliated groups, and has invited multiple Chinese ambassadors to France to give speeches to the National Assembly. In May 2019, he visited

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to attend a meeting of the Chinese Overseas Friendship Association and was photographed shaking the hand of General Secretary

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Tan, Buon 1967 births Living people Deputies of the 15th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic La République En Marche! politicians People from Phnom Penh Politicians from Paris Councillors of Paris Cambodian emigrants to France French people of Chinese descent

Family and youth

Political career

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