Françoise Dubois (born 6 December 1947) is a French

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politician who was

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for

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from

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until

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when she was decisively defeated, losing her seat to

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from

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Early life

Dubois was born in Coulans-sur-Gée. She worked as a schoolteacher.

Political career

In the

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, she defeated incumbent

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MP Fabienne Labrette-Ménager. In the

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, she was member of the

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and of the Commission of Inquiry into the conditions for slaughtering slaughter animals in French slaughterhouses, she attended all of the meetings (317 committee attendances ) and occurred 122 times during these. She wrote with

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a report on aquatic ecological continuities. She lost her seat to

from

in the 2017 parliamentary election, only receiving 12% of the votes in the first round.

References

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