Geneviève Darrieussecq (born 4 March 1956) is a French physician and politician of

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(MoDem) who served as Minister for People with Disabilities in the

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Élisabeth Borne from 2022 to 2023. From 2017 to 2022, Darrieussecq served as the Secretary of State to the Minister of the Armed Forces in the governments of successive Prime Ministers Édouard Philippe and

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Career

Career in local politics

Darrieussecq was the mayor of

Mont-de-Marsan Mont-de-Marsan (; Occitan: ''Lo Mont de Marçan'') is a commune and capital of the Landes department, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, southwestern France. Population Military installations The French Air and Space Force operates the ''Constantin Rozan ...

(2008-2017).

Career in national politics

In 2010,

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included Darrieussecq in his shadow cabinet; in this capacity, Darrieussecq served as opposition counterpart to Minister of Health Roselyne Bachelot ahead of the

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. In the

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' 2016 presidential primary, Darrieussecq endorsed

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as the party's candidate for the

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. In

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Darrieussecq was elected to the

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from

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's 1st constituency. On 21 June 2017 Darrieussecq was appointed Secretary of State to the Minister of the Armed Forces Florence Parly in the Second Philippe government. Fabien Lainé succeeded her in the National Assembly and Charles Dayot succeeded her as mayor of

(on 7 July 2017). ''Contextes newspaper notes that "Geneviève Darrieussecq is discreet with Florence Parly at the Ministry of the Armed Forces. She had a specific mission letter: to her "the human", when the minister takes care of the material. The memory, the youth, the training, the service of health of the armies, the durable development in the armies, the family plan are her first subjects of concern. But she must keep abreast of the rest, to be able to answer in case of Florence Parly's absence. Since 2023, Darrieussecq has been part of the French delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, where she serves on the Science and Technology Committee and the Mediterranean and Middle East Special Group.Geneviève Darrieussecq
NATO Parliamentary Assembly.

References

1956 births Living people Members of the Borne government Deputies of the 15th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic 21st-century French women politicians Women government ministers of France Members of the Regional Council of Nouvelle-Aquitaine Democratic Movement (France) politicians Politicians from Nouvelle-Aquitaine 20th-century French physicians Women members of the National Assembly (France) Women mayors of places in France University of Bordeaux alumni 20th-century French women Mayors of places in Nouvelle-Aquitaine {{France-politician-MoDem-stub