Cécile Rilhac (born 21 April 1974) is a French politician of

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(RE) who has been serving as a member of the

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between 2017 and

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, representing the department of

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Political career

In Parliament, Rilhac serves on the Committee on Cultural Affairs and Education. In addition to her committee assignments, she is part of the French-Algerian Parliamentary Friendship Group. In 2020, Rilhac joined

En Commun En Commun () is a French environmentalist political party created in 2020 by En Marche MPs Barbara Pompili, Hugues Renson and Jacques Maire. The party is a member of the Ensemble coalition, which supported Emmanuel Macron Emmanuel ...

(EC), a group within LREM led by

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. In 2023, she left the

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, together with Pompili, Mireille Clapot and Stella Dupont.

Political positions

Domestic policy

In June 2019, Rilhac was one of four members of the LREM parliamentary group who joined a cross-party initiative to

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, the distribution and use of

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. Along with four other LREM members –

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, and

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–, she disassociated herself from their colleague

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when the latter announced her intention in October 2019 to vote for a Republican draft law banning the wearing of the

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by women accompanying groups of students on school outings. In 2020, Rilhac was one of ten LREM members who voted against her parliamentary group's majority and opposed a much discussed security bill drafted by her colleagues

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and

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that helps, among other measures, curtail the filming of

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Foreign policy

In 2018, Rilhac joined other co-signatories around

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in officially filing a request for a commission of inquiry into the legality of French weapons sales to the Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen, days before an official visit of Saudi Crown Prince

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to Paris. In July 2019, Rilhac voted in favor of the French ratification of the

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’s

Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement The Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA; French: ''accord économique et commercial global'', AECG; German: ''Umfassendes Wirtschafts- und Handelsabkommen'') is a free-trade agreement between Canada and the European Union and its ...

(CETA) with

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.Maxime Vaudano (24 July 2019)
CETA : qui a voté quoi parmi les députés
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''.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Rilhac, Cecile 1974 births Living people Deputies of the 15th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic Deputies of the 16th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic Renaissance (French political party) politicians 21st-century French women politicians Politicians from Paris Women members of the National Assembly (France) Members of Parliament for Val-d'Oise

Political career

Political positions

Domestic policy

Foreign policy

See also

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