Bastien Lachaud (born 5 August 1980) is a French politician representing
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 ...
. He was elected to the
French National Assembly on 18 June 2017, representing the
department of
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 ...
.
A former history teacher, Lachaud was a member of the
Socialist Party
Socialist Party is the name of many different political parties around the world. All of these parties claim to uphold some form of socialism, though they may have very different interpretations of what "socialism" means. Statistically, most of t ...
until 2008, when he left the party to join the newly formed
Left Party, and became national secretary for the party.
Lachaud also lead the national legislative campaign for FI.
See also
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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 b ...
References
1980 births
Living people
Deputies of the 15th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
La France Insoumise politicians
Socialist Party (France) politicians
Left Party (France) politicians
People from Vitry-sur-Seine
Members of Parliament for Seine-Saint-Denis
Deputies of the 16th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
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