Monique Lubin (born 16 July 1963) is a
French politician. She became
senator of Landes on 2 October 2017.
Political career
Monique Lubin was elected
mayor of
Aubagnan in 1999, succeeding Jean-Pierre Saint-Genez, and was re-elected in
2001
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From 1992 to 2004, she was President of the Centre national d'information des droits des femmes et des families (CIDFF) des Landes.
She was elected
general councillor
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for the canton of
Hagetmau in the
2004 cantonal elections and re-elected in
2011
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In 2004, she was appointed Deputy Chairman of the Mission Locale Landaise, succeeding Jean-Claude Sescousse. She stepped down from this position when she was elected to the
French Senate in October 2017.
In March 2015, she was elected departmental councillor for the
Chalosse Tursan canton in tandem with Olivier Martinez. She was vice-president of the departmental council from 2015 to 2017, in charge of the social affairs and housing commission.
On Monique Lubin became
deputy for the
3rd Landes constituency following the death of
Henri Emmanuelli. She resigned on 29 March.
She is a candidate in the 2017 senatorial elections in Landes. She was elected senator, in tandem with Socialist Éric Kerrouche.
Parliamentary work
On her arrival in the Senate, she joined the Social Affairs Committee, becoming its vice-president in 2019.
Appointed member of the Conseil d'orientation des retraites (COR) and the mission d'évaluation et de contrôle de la sécurité sociale,
she and Senator René-Paul Savary authored two reports on pensions, one on "Pension reform: the end-of-career challenge" (2019) and the other on "Special scheme reserves" (2021).
Committed to youth issues, in January 2021 she was rapporteur for the Social Affairs Commission on Senator Rémi Cardon's bill on new rights from the age of eighteen. She also authored the report "L'égalité des chances, jalon des politiques de jeunesse" (Equal opportunity, a milestone in youth policies) (2021) or the Mission d'information sur la politique en faveur de l'égalité des chances et de l'émancipation de la jeunesse.
Elected representative of Landes
In defense of "traditional hunting", in the summer of 2021 she denounced a Conseil d'Etat decision to ban the hunting of larks with pantières or matoles, a practice deemed cruel by animal protectionists. She is also concerned about the future of net hunting for wood pigeon, bullfighting and the practice of
force-feeding geese and ducks.
In November 2021, she took a stand in favor of the Grand projet ferroviaire du Sud-Ouest (GPSO) with Landes departmental council president Xavier Fortinon, along with Landes socialist elected representatives and parliamentarians, deputy Boris Vallaud and senator Éric Kerrouche.
See also
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List of senators of Landes
Following is a list of senators of Landes, people who have represented the department of Landes (department), Landes in the Senate (France), Senate of France.
Third Republic
Senators for Landes under the French Third Republic were:
* Henri (Gav ...
References
External links
National Assembly
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French senators of the Fifth Republic
Senators of Landes
Deputies of the 14th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
French women in politics
Living people
1963 births
Women members of the Senate (France)
21st-century French politicians
21st-century French women politicians
Members of Parliament for Landes
Women members of the National Assembly (France)