Claire Bouchet (born 9 January 1954) is a French politician of the

Radical Movement The Radical Movement (french: Mouvement radical, MR), officially the Radical, Social and Liberal Movement (french: link=no, Mouvement radical, social et libéral), was a Social liberalism, social-liberal list of political parties in France, politi ...

who served as

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for

Hautes-Alpes's 2nd constituency The 2nd constituency of the Hautes-Alpes is a French legislative constituency in the Hautes-Alpes department (Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur). It consists of twelve cantons located in the arrondissements of Briançon and Gap: Aiguilles, L'Arg ...

from 2020 to 2022.

Early life

Bouchet was born in

Gap, Hautes-Alpes Gap (, ) is the prefecture of the Hautes-Alpes department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in Southeastern France. In 2019, the commune had a population of 40,631, making it the most populated city in Hautes-Alpes. At a height of 750 ...

Political career

She was mayor of La Motte-en-Champsaur from 2001 to 2014. In the

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 ...

, she was a substitute candidate. She replaced Joël Giraud in the

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when he was appointed to government. She did not seek re-election in the

2022 French legislative election Legislative elections in France were held on 12 and 19 June 2022 to elect the 577 members of the 16th National Assembly of the Fifth French Republic. The elections took place following the 2022 French presidential election, which was held in A ...

References

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