Marie Pochon (; born 4 May 1990) is a French environmental activist and politician. A member of

Europe Ecology – The Greens Europe Ecology – The Greens (french: Europe Écologie Les Verts , EELV ) is a centre-left to left-wing green political party in France. The party is a member of the European Green Party. The party was formed on 13 November 2010 from the merge ...

, she currently serves as

National Assembly In politics, a national assembly is either a unicameral legislature, the lower house of a bicameral legislature, or both houses of a bicameral legislature together. In the English language it generally means "an assembly composed of the repre ...

deputy for Drôme's 3rd constituency.

Biography

Pochon was born on 4 May 1990 in Grenoble, in

Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (ARA; ; frp, Ôvèrgne-Rôno-Ârpes; oc, Auvèrnhe Ròse Aups; it, Alvernia-Rodano-Alpi) is a region in southeast-central France created by the 2014 territorial reform of French regions; it resulted from the merger of Au ...

. Her mother worked as a

viticulturist Viticulture (from the Latin word for ''vine'') or winegrowing (wine growing) is the cultivation and harvesting of grapes. It is a branch of the science of horticulture. While the native territory of ''Vitis vinifera'', the common grape vine, ran ...

while her father worked as head of the Lycée Camille Vernet in Valence, Drôme. She earned her bachelor's degree in political science at the

Institut d'études politiques de Lyon The Institut d'Études politiques de Lyon (or Lyon Institute of Political Studies) also known as Sciences Po Lyon, is a grande école located in Lyon, France. It is one of ten Institutes of Political Studies in France, and was established in 194 ...

before earning a master's degree in international relations at the Centre International de Formation Européenne. While completing her master's, she lived in Berlin and then in Istanbul, and volunteered with organisations helping refugees of the Syrian civil war and was active with the

Federation of Young European Greens The Federation of Young European Greens, often referred to as FYEG ( ), is an umbrella organisation that gathers young green movements and organisations across Europe with 40,000 members. FYEG's aim is to defend climate and social justice on the ...

. In 2017, she joined Notre affaire à tous, a French

climate justice Climate justice is a concept that addresses the just division, fair sharing, and equitable distribution of the burdens of climate change and its mitigation and responsibilities to deal with climate change. "Justice", "fairness", and "equity" ar ...

advocacy group, eventually becoming the group's secretary-general and helping launch the L'Affaire du siècle campaign. In the

2022 French legislative election Legislative elections in France were held on 12 and 19 June 2022 to elect the 577 members of the 16th National Assembly of the Fifth French Republic. The elections took place following the 2022 French presidential election, which was held in A ...

, she presented herself as a candidate for Drôme's 3rd constituency with

, as part of the

New Ecological and Social People's Union The New Ecological and Social People's Union (french: Nouvelle Union populaire écologique et sociale, link=no, NUPES) is a left-wing alliance of political parties in France. Formed on May Day 2022, the alliance includes La France Insoumise (LFI ...

(NUPES) coalition. Her candidacy initially attracted some controversy, with some local members of the party accusing her of being a parachute candidate. She finished with 35.49% of the vote in the first round of the elections, qualifying for the second round. In the second round, she finished with 52.22% of the vote, defeating

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 ...

incumbent

Célia de Lavergne Célia de Lavergne (; born 21 November 1979) is a French politician of La République En Marche! (LREM) who was elected to the French National Assembly on 18 June 2017, representing the 3rd constituency of the department of Drôme. Early career ...

. She currently sits on the Sustainable Development, Spatial and Regional Planning Committee.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Pochon, Marie 1990 births Living people Politicians from Grenoble Europe Ecology – The Greens politicians Deputies of the 16th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic Members of Parliament for Drôme 21st-century French women politicians French environmentalists