Olga Givernet (born 17 October 1981) is a French politician 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) who has been serving as a member of the

French National Assembly The National Assembly (french: link=no, italics=set, Assemblée nationale; ) is the lower house of the bicameral French Parliament under the Fifth Republic, the upper house being the Senate (). The National Assembly's legislators are known a ...

since the

2017 elections The following elections occurred in 2017. Africa * 2017 Somali presidential election 8 February 2017 *2017 Gambian parliamentary election 6 April 2017 * 2017 Algerian legislative election 4 May 2017 *2017 Lesotho general election 3 June 2017 *2 ...

, representing the

department Department may refer to: * Departmentalization, division of a larger organization into parts with specific responsibility Government and military *Department (administrative division), a geographical and administrative division within a country, ...

Ain Ain (, ; frp, En) is a department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in Eastern France. Named after the Ain river, it is bordered by the Saône and Rhône rivers. Ain is located on the country's eastern edge, on the Swiss border, where it ...

Education and early career

Givernet completed her secondary studies in

Yvelines Yvelines () is a department in the western part of the Île-de-France region in Northern France. In 2019, it had a population of 1,448,207.Auckland Auckland (pronounced ) ( mi, Tāmaki Makaurau) is a large metropolitan city in the North Island of New Zealand. The List of New Zealand urban areas by population, most populous urban area in the country and the List of cities in Oceania by po ...

where she found a job as an avionics engineer, then project manager at the design office of

Air New Zealand Air New Zealand Limited () is the flag carrier airline of New Zealand. Based in Auckland, the airline operates scheduled passenger flights to 20 domestic and 30 international destinations in 18 countries, primarily around and within the Pacific ...

. After spending three years in New Zealand, she returned to France in 2007 and settled with her husband in Ain to work in jet maintenance centres at

Geneva Airport Geneva Airport ,, german: Flughafen Genf, it, Aeroporto di Ginevra, rm, Eroport de Genevra formerly and still unofficially known as Cointrin Airport, is the international airport of Geneva, the second most populous city in Switzerland. It i ...

Political career

Career in local politics

In 2013, Givernet joined the

Democratic Movement A democracy is a political system, or a system of decision-making within an institution or organization or a country, in which all members have an equal share of power. Modern democracies are characterized by two capabilities that differentiate ...

(MoDem). In March 2014, she was elected

city councilor A municipal council is the legislative body of a municipality or local government area. Depending on the location and classification of the municipality it may be known as a city council, town council, town board, community council, rural council ...

Saint-Genis-Pouilly Saint-Genis-Pouilly (; frp, Sant-Genés-Polyi) is a commune in the Ain department within the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of eastern France. It is located in the Pays de Gex, at the foot of the Jura Mountains. Bordering the Swiss frontier, it ...

on the list of the outgoing mayor, Hubert Bertrand (DVG). She becomes in this capacity councilor of the community of communes of the Country of Gex. In autumn 2015 Givernet decided to leave MoDem when the party decided to ally with the Republicans led by

Laurent Wauquiez Laurent Timothée Marie Wauquiez (; born 12 April 1975) is a French politician who has presided over the Regional Council of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes since 2016. He is a member of The Republicans (LR), which he led from 2017 to 2019 following the ...

, whose ideas she did not share, for the regional elections 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 ...

in December 2015. She was elected on 4th position on the union list of the left

, led by

Jean-Jack Queyranne Jean-Jack Queyranne (born 2 November 1945) is a French politician. He has been the Regional President of the Rhône-Alpes since June 2002 (succeeding Anne-Marie Comparini) and is a deputy in the National Assembly from the seventh district of R ...

. Due to the limitation of the plurality of the mandates, Givernet resigned from her position of municipal councilor of

on 18 July 2017.

Member of the
French National Assembly The National Assembly (french: link=no, italics=set, Assemblée nationale; ) is the lower house of the bicameral French Parliament under the Fifth Republic, the upper house being the Senate (). The National Assembly's legislators are known a ...

In the spring of 2016, Givernet ran for the by-election in the 3rd constituency of Ain, prompted by the resignation of incumbent Etienne Blanc. Without any label, she presented herself as "democrat", claiming to be centrist and declaring herself to be recognized by

Emmanuel Macron Emmanuel Macron (; born 21 December 1977) is a French politician who has served as President of France since 2017. ''Ex officio'', he is also one of the two Co-Princes of Andorra. Prior to his presidency, Macron served as Minister of Econ ...

. She was defeated in the first round on 13 June 2016 with a score of 10.05% of the votes cast. Without a political label, Givernet joined the summer 2016 movement

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 ...

created by

, of which she became the referent in the

. She was chosen in May 2017 as the party's candidate in the 3rd constituency of Ain for the 2017 parliamentary elections. After obtaining in the first round 45.30% of the votes cast, she was elected in the second round with 61.86% of the votes cast against the outgoing Stéphanie Pernod-Beaudon. In parliament, Givernet serves on the Committee on Foreign Affairs, one of the eight standing committees. She also joined the Public Policy Evaluation and Oversight Committee. In addition to her committee assignments, she is part of the French-Swiss Parliamentary Friendship Group. In July 2019, Givernet challenged incumbent chairman

Gilles Le Gendre Gilles Le Gendre (born 13 May 1958) is a French politician who presided over the La République En Marche group in the National Assembly from 2018 to 2020. He was elected to the National Assembly in the 2017 legislative election in the 2nd con ...

for the leadership of the LREM parliamentary group; Le Gendre was subsequently re-elected in the first round, with Givernet receiving the third highest number of votes after Florent Boudié. She was re-elected 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 ...

Political positions

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

in vitro fertilisation In vitro fertilisation (IVF) is a process of fertilisation where an egg is combined with sperm in vitro ("in glass"). The process involves monitoring and stimulating an individual's ovulatory process, removing an ovum or ova (egg or eggs) ...

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

and marked the first major social reform of his five-year term. In July 2019, Givernet voted in favor of the French ratification of the European Union's

Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement The Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) is a free-trade agreement between Canada and the European Union and its member states. It has been provisionally applied, thus removing 98% of the preexisting tariffs between the two parts. ...

(CETA) with Canada.Maxime Vaudano (24 July 2019)
CETA : qui a voté quoi parmi les députés
''

Le Monde ''Le Monde'' (; ) is a French daily afternoon newspaper. It is the main publication of Le Monde Group and reported an average circulation of 323,039 copies per issue in 2009, about 40,000 of which were sold abroad. It has had its own website si ...

''.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Givernet, Olga 1981 births Living people French women engineers French aerospace engineers People from Saint-Germain-en-Laye Women members of the National Assembly (France) La République En Marche! politicians 21st-century French women politicians Deputies for Ain (French Fifth Republic) Regional councillors of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Politicians from Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Deputies of the 15th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic Deputies of the 16th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic