Pascale Fontenel-Personne (born 26 May 1962) is a French politician who has been serving as a member of the

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since

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, representing the

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of Sarthe. From 2017 until 2019, she was a member of

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(LREM).

Political career

Fontenel-Personne was elected in Sarthe's 3rd constituency at the 2017 legislative election. In parliament, Fontenel-Personne served as member of the Defense Committee. In addition to her committee assignments, she was a member of the French-Montenegrin Parliamentary Friendship Group. From 2019, she was also a member of the French delegation to the

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. In July 2019, Fontenel-Personne decided not to align with her parliamentary group's majority and became of 52 LREM members who abstained from a vote on the French ratification of the

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’s Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) with

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. In late 2019, Fontenel-Personne was one of 17 members of the Defense Committee who co-signed a letter to

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Édouard Philippe in which they warned that the 365 million euro ($406 million) sale of aerospace firm Groupe Latécoère to U.S. fund

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raised “questions about the preservation of know-how and France’s defense industry base” and urged government intervention.Laurence Frost (9 January 2020)
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''. She retired at the

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. Her daughter

Julie Delpech Julie Delpech (born 25 September 1989) is a French politician. Biography Julie Delpech is the daughter of former member of parliament Pascale Fontenel-Personne and Patrick Delpech who was federal secretary of the Sarthe Socialist Party for s ...

was elected MP for

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Fontenel-Personne, Pascale 1962 births Living people Deputies of the 15th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic Renaissance (French political party) politicians 21st-century French women politicians Place of birth missing (living people) Women members of the National Assembly (France) Members of Parliament for Sarthe

Political career

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