Jean François Mbaye is a French politician of
La République En Marche!
Renaissance (RE), previously known as La République En Marche ! (frequently abbreviated LREM, LaREM or REM; translated as "The Republic on the Move" or "Republic Forward"), or sometimes called simply En Marche ! () as its original name, is a l ...
(LREM) who served as a member of the
French National Assembly
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from 2017 to 2022, representing the
department
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* Departmentalization, division of a larger organization into parts with specific responsibility
Government and military
*Department (administrative division), a geographical and administrative division within a country, ...
of
Val-de-Marne
Val-de-Marne (, "Vale of the Marne") is a department of France located in the Île-de-France region. Named after the river Marne, it is situated in the Grand Paris metropolis to the southeast of the City of Paris. In 2019, Val-de-Marne had a pop ...
.
Political career
In parliament, Mbaye served on the Committee on Foreign Affairs. In addition to his committee assignments, he chaired the French-Gambian Parliamentary Friendship Group.
In early 2019, Mbaye received a racist letter in which the unnamed author promised him “a bullet in the head”; in response, he pressed charges.
In 2020, Mbaye joined
En Commun
En Commun ( ''English'': In Common) is a French environmentalist political party created in 2020 by En Marche MPs Barbara Pompili, Hugues Renson and Jacques Maire.
The party is member of Ensemble Citoyens, which supports Emmanuel Macron in ...
(EC), a group within LREM led by
Barbara Pompili
Barbara Pompili (born 13 June 1975) is a French politician who served as Minister of the Ecological Transition under Prime Minister Jean Castex from 2020 to 2022.
Pompili has previously served as member of the National Assembly for the 2nd cons ...
.
He
lost his seat in the
2022 French legislative election
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.
Political positions
In July 2019, Mbaye was one of nine LREM members who voted against his parliamentary group's majority and opposed the French ratification of the
European Union
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's
Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) with
Canada
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.
Other activities
* UNITE – Parliamentary Network to End HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis and Other Infectious Diseases, Member (since 2019)
Members – Western & Central Europe
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See also
* 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 by ...
References
1979 births
Living people
Deputies of the 15th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Renaissance (French political party) politicians
People from Dakar
Senegalese emigrants to France
Black French politicians
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Members of Parliament for Val-de-Marne
21st-century French politicians