Martine Wonner (born 27 March 1964) is a French

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and politician who served as a

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of the

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from

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, representing the 4th constituency of the

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. She was elected as a member 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), but was expelled from the party in May 2020 and was one of the original 17 members of the new

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group.

Education and early career

Wonner graduated in psychiatric medicine from the

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. She began her career as a medical consultant for the Agence Régionale de l'Hospitalisation of Lorraine and Alsace and then joined the private group Ramsay Générale de Santé in 2006. She then worked as a psychiatrist in a specialised clinic, before taking up managerial positions, first for

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and then for the private medical group Sinoué.

Political career

In parliament, Wonner serves on the Committee on Social Affairs. In addition to her role in parliament, she has been serving as a member of the French delegation to the

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since 2017. She is a member of the Sub-Committee on Children. In addition to her parliamentary work, Wonner has been a member of the French delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the

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since 2019. In this capacity, she serves on the Sub-Committee on Children, which she has been chairing since 2020. She is also the Assembly’s

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on discrimination against people dealing with chronic or long-term illness. Wonner was excluded from LREM parlementary group in May 2020, left the party shortly after and was one of the 17 initial members of the short-lived

group in the National Assembly. She left the

group to join

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in September 2020. In July 2021, Wonner is excluded from

after polemical statements in July 2021, calling for "laying siege to parliamentarians" and "invading their offices". By 2021, she announced plans to launch her own "movement". She lost her seat in the first round of the

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Political positions

Foreign policy

In April 2018, Wonner joined other co-signatories around

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in officially filing a request for a commission of inquiry into the legality of French weapons sales to the Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen, days before an official visit of

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to Paris. In July 2019, Wonner decided not to align with her parliamentary group’s majority and became one of 52 LREM members who abstained from a vote on the French ratification of the

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’s

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(CETA) with

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Domestic policy

In May 2018, Wonner co-sponsored an initiative in favour of a bioethics law extending to homosexual and single women free access to fertility treatments such as

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(IVF) under France's national health insurance; it was one of the campaign promises of

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and marked the first major social reform of his five-year term. On immigration, Wonner is considered to be part of her parliamentary group's more liberal wing. In late 2019, she was among the critics of the government's legislative proposals on immigrations and instead joined 17 LREM members who recommended, in particular, greater access to the labour market for migrants, but also "specific measures for collaboration with the authorities of safe countries, such as Albania and Georgia, in order to inform candidates for departure, in their country of origin, of what the asylum application really is." During the

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, Wonner joined

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in expressing criticism of how the

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handled its response and called for easing the conditions for the use of

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. She opposes

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