Matthieu Orphelin (born 3 December 1972) is a French politician who served as a member of the

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from

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, representing

Maine-et-Loire Maine-et-Loire () is a department in the Loire Valley in the Pays de la Loire region in Western France. It is named after the two rivers, Maine and the Loire. It borders Mayenne and Sarthe to the north, Loire-Atlantique to the west, Indre-e ...

Early life and education

Orphelin is an engineer at the

École centrale de Nantes École Centrale de Nantes, or Centrale Nantes, is a grande école - a French engineering school - established in 1919 under the name of '' Institut Polytechnique de l'Ouest''. It delivers Graduate, Master, and PhD Programmes based on the latest ...

, an environmental specialty, and a doctor of energy at the

École des Mines de Paris Mines Paris - PSL, officially École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris (until May 2022 Mines ParisTech, also known as École des mines de Paris, ENSMP, Mines de Paris, les Mines, or Paris School of Mines), is a French grande école and a c ...

. He is a specialist in energy policies and the fight against climate change and has also been involved in politics, where he is particularly involved in education, training and solidarity issues. Orphelin spent most of his career at the Environment and Energy Management Agency (ADEME), where he was chief of the economy, evaluation and observation department and then director of research and development. prospective. He also acted as adviser to Michèle Pappalardo, then as chief of staff to

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and Philippe Van de Maele. From 2007 to 2010, Orphelin was part of the representatives of the State College in the groups of

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and works in particular on the building plan and on the tax measures whose contribution energy climate. He also led work on

energy poverty Energy poverty is lack of access to modern energy services. It refers to the situation of large numbers of people in developing countries and some people in developed countries whose well-being is negatively affected by very low consumption of ene ...

, the ecological transformation of the economy and training for the jobs of tomorrow.

Political career

Top of

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for the 2010 regional elections in

, he is elected and appointed Vice President of the Regional council of

Pays de la Loire Pays de la Loire (; ; br, Broioù al Liger) is one of the 18 regions of France, in the west of the mainland. It was created in the 1950s to serve as a zone of influence for its capital, Nantes, one of a handful of "balancing metropolises" (). ...

, Chairman of the Education and Learning Commission. During the 2011 Ecology Party presidential primary, for a presidential election 2012, he worked in

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's campaign team.

Member of the National Assembly

Orphelin was elected to the

on 18 June 2017, representing the 1st constituency of Maine-et-Loire. In the

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, Orphelin served on the Committee on Sustainable Development, Spatial and Regional Planning. He was also a member of Joint information mission on plant protection products. In addition to his committee assignments, he chaired the

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Friendship Group and served as secretary of the

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Friendship Group. In September 2018, Orphelin supported

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's candidacy for the presidency of the National Assembly. The following month, he launched a collective called "Accelerating the Ecological and Solidarity Transition!", which brought together more than 120 MPs from six of the seven parliamentary groups of the Assembly. Led by Orphelin, Aurélien Taché and

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, a group of around 20 members of the LREM parliamentary group was established in late 2018 with a "wish to express a humanist, social and ecological sensibility and to better raise citizens' concerns"; the initiative was widely interpreted as the launch of a left-wing faction within the group. Orphelin left the La République en marche group on 6 February 2019, explaining having "done everything possible ..to carry high the ecology", without success, invoking in particular insufficient progress on the "climatic, ecological and criticizing "certain choices" of the government. He is close to the former Minister of Ecological and Solidary Transition

, who resigned in 2018 for the same reasons. In May 2020 he became one of the two initial presidents of the

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National Assembly group, which was mainly made up of defectors from LREM.

Political positions

Ahead of the

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, Orphelin endorsed

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as candidate for mayor. In July 2019, Orphelin voted against the French ratification of the

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’s

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(CETA) with

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. Amid the

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, Orphelin backed a public petition calling on consumers to “not buy any gifts” from

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for the holidays in 2020. Ahead of the Green movement's

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in 2021, Orphelin endorsed

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as the movement's candidate for the

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in 2022.Primaire écologiste: Orphelin soutient Jadot
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'', 4 September 2021.

References

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Early life and education

Political career

Member of the National Assembly

Political positions

See also

References