Delphine Bagarry (born 9 January 1970) is a French

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and politician who was the

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deputy for Alpes-de-Haute-Provence's 1st constituency from 2017 to 2022.

Political career

Having previously been affiliated with the

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, Bagarry joined LREM in 2016. In parliament, Bagarry served on the Committee on Sustainable Development and Spatial Planning. In addition to her committee assignments, she was part of the French-Vanuatu Parliamentary Friendship Group. In 2018, Bagarry 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

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to Paris. In 2019, she was one of five members of the LREM parliamentary group who joined a cross-party initiative to legalize the distribution and use of

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. In March 2020, Bagarry left LREM after

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Edouard Philippe announced he would push through a controversial pensions bill by executive decree. In May 2020, she was one of the 17 initial members of the short-lived

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group. By June 2020, Bagarry and five other ex-LREM deputies announced the establishment of #Nous Demain, a "humanist, ecologist and feminist" political movement. In December 2020 she joined The New Democrats. In the

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, Bagarry stood as a

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candidate. She lost her seat in the second round to Christian Girard from the National Rally.

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Political career

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