Carlos Martens Bilongo (born 31 December 1990) is a French teacher and politician who has represented the 8th constituency of the

Val-d'Oise Val-d'Oise (, "Vale of the Oise") is a department in the Île-de-France region, Northern France. It was created in 1968 following the split of the Seine-et-Oise department. In 2019, Val-d'Oise had a population of 1,249,674.

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in the

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since

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. A member of La France Insoumise (FI), he was elected under the

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(NUPES) alliance.

Early life and career

Carlos Martens Bilongo was born on December 31, 1990, in

Villiers-le-Bel Villiers-le-Bel is a commune in the French department of Val-d'Oise, in the northern suburbs of Paris. It is located from the center of Paris. History A tragedy occurred in the town in the early evening of March 25, 1818, when a cracked 6,0 ...

to parents of Congolese (DRC) and Angolan origin. He is the youngest of six children. After obtaining a vocational baccalaureate at the Gustave-Monod high school, Carlos Martens Bilongo joined ''Isifa plus values cfa'' Paris Sud, a business school in Paris, where he obtained a

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Technico-commercial in 2012, before obtaining, a year later, a degree in Marketing Negotiation. After an apprenticeship contract at Az Métal, he worked successively as a technical sales representative and then as a business manager, a position he held for six years. Since 2019, he has been a teacher in economics and law at the Alexandre-Dumas high school. As a sports coach and physical trainer, he trains the singer Aya Nakamura during her tour.

Political career

Activism

Martens Bilongo is involved in a member of the Triangle de Gonesse collective, a platform that brings together several associations committed to the environment. They have been fighting for several years to "save the fertile agricultural land" north of Paris.

French National Assembly

Carlos Martens Bilongo is a member of La France Insoumise. He was nominated by the

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in Villiers-le-Bel in the 8th constituency of Val-d'Oise, where he beat

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in the first round with more than 37% of the vote against 24%. During the inter-round, he received the support of the mayors of

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and

. On the second round, he was elected deputy with 61.72% of the vote. On November 3, 2022, during a question session to the government at the National Assembly, while Deputy Bilongo was addressing the subject of the distribution of migrants sailing on the

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, he was interrupted by the

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deputy Grégoire de Fournas, who said: "Let him go back to Africa", according to the version retained by the editors of the debates and available in the minutes of the session. These remarks provoked indignation in the Chamber and a temporary suspension of the sitting by

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, President of the Assembly.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:BIlongo, Carlos Martens Living people 1990 births 21st-century French politicians Black French politicians Deputies of the 16th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic French people of Angolan descent French people of Democratic Republic of the Congo descent La France Insoumise politicians Members of Parliament for Val-d'Oise People from Villiers-le-Bel