Justine Benin, (born 12 March 1975) is a French employment counsellor and politician who briefly served as Secretary of State for the Sea in the

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Élisabeth Borne Élisabeth Borne (; born 18 April 1961) is a French politician who served as Prime Minister of France from May 2022 to January 2024. A member of President Emmanuel Macron's party Renaissance (French political party), Renaissance, she is the secon ...

in 2022. She previously was a deputy in the

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for the 2nd constituency of

Guadeloupe Guadeloupe is an Overseas departments and regions of France, overseas department and region of France in the Caribbean. It consists of six inhabited islands—Basse-Terre Island, Basse-Terre, Grande-Terre, Guadeloupe, Grande-Terre, Marie-Galant ...

as part of the

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, affiliated with the

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(MoDem).

Political career

Born in

Les Abymes Les Abymes (; ) is the most populous commune in the French overseas region and department of Guadeloupe, in the Lesser Antilles. It is located on the west side of the island of Grande-Terre, and is part of the largest metropolitan area of Gua ...

, Benin made her debut in politics at the municipal elections of 2008 by being elected to the

Le Moule Le Moule (; ) is the sixth-largest Commune in France, commune in the overseas departments of France, French overseas department of Guadeloupe. It is located on the northeast side of the island of Grande-Terre, Guadeloupe, Grande-Terre. History B ...

council on the list of

Gabrielle Louis-Carabin Gabrielle Louis-Carabin (born 20 February 1946 in Le Moule, Guadeloupe) was a member of the National Assembly of France, representing Guadeloupe's 2nd constituency from 2002 to 2017 as a member of the Union for a Popular Movement The Union ...

, then a member of

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. At the 2010 regional elections, she was elected on the list of the socialist winner

Victorin Lurel Victorin Lurel ( ; born 20 August 1951 in Vieux-Habitants, Guadeloupe) is a French politician who represented the 4th district of Guadeloupe in the French National Assembly from 2002 to 2012. He also served as the President of the Regional C ...

. The following year, during the cantonal elections she was elected general councillor in the canton of Moule-2, eliminating from the first round the outgoing socialist Christian Couchy. She was re-elected at the 2015 departmental election, after the merger of the townships of the municipality in the new canton of Moule. On 17 June 2017, Benin was elected as a left-wing deputy for

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, receiving 64.26% of the votes cast in the 2nd round against the

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candidate Diana Peran. In May 2022, Benin was appointed Secretary of State for the Sea in the

Borne government The Borne government ( French: ''gouvernement Borne'') was the forty-third government of the French Fifth Republic, formed on 16 May 2022 and headed by Élisabeth Borne as Prime Minister under President Emmanuel Macron. It served as a caretake ...

. She lost her seat in the first round of the

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Her page on the site of the National Assembly

Her page
on the

MoDem The Democratic Movement (, ; MoDem ) is a centre to centre-right political party in France, whose main ideological trends are liberalism and Christian democracy, and that is characterised by a strong pro-Europeanist stance. MoDem was establis ...

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