Pierre Person (born 22 January 1989) is a French politician who served as the member of the
National Assembly for the
6th constituency of
Paris from 2017 until 2022. A member of
La République En Marche!
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(LREM), his constituency covers parts of the
11th
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Name
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and
20th arrondissements.
Person is considered a close ally to President
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 ...
in Parliament.
Political career
During his studies at the
University of Poitiers, Person volunteered as the local chairman of the left-wing
National Union of Students of France
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(UNEF). He was also a member of the
Socialist Party until 2012. Ahead of the
2012 French presidential election
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, he worked for the campaign of Socialist candidate
Dominique Strauss-Kahn.
In 2015, Person co-founded "Les Jeunes avec Macron" (JAM) with three friends –
Sacha Houlié
Sacha Houlié (born 8 October 1988) is a French lawyer and politician of La République En Marche! (LREM) who has been serving as a member of the National Assembly (France), French National Assembly since the 2017 French legislative election, 201 ...
, Florian Humez and Jean Gaborit – which had more than 22,000 members by September 2017. In March 2016, he helped launch “La Gauche Libre” (“The Free Left”), a think-tank advocating “left-wing liberalism” as represented 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 ...
. He later joined Macron's campaign staff ahead of the
2017 presidential elections.
Person has been a member of the
National Assembly since the
2017 elections
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. In parliament, he first served on the Finance Committee from 2017 until 2018, where he was the
rapporteur on the
Ministry of Culture's annual budget. Since 2019, he has been a member of both the Committee on Legal Affairs and the Committee on Sustainable Development and Spatial Planning. Person was later appointed as co-rapporteur of a parliamentary mission on crypto assets, which published its conclusions in January 2019.
In November 2018, following the resignation of
Christophe Castaner from the position as chairman of LREM, Person briefly considered a candidacy to succeed him but later withdrew from the race for the party leadership; instead,
Stanislas Guerini
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Prior to entering government, Guerini served as Execut ...
was elected. Person later became Guerini's deputy. In September 2020, he stepped down from that role because of disagreements over the direction of the party; he remained an LREM member.
Person was not seeking re-election in the
2022 French legislative election
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.
Political positions
In May 2018, Person co-sponsored an initiative in favour of a bioethics law extending to homosexual and single women free access to
fertility treatments, such as
in vitro fertilisation (IVF), under France's national health insurance; it was one of the campaign promises of President
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 ...
and marked the first major social reform of his five-year term.
In 2019, Person was one of five members of the LREM parliamentary group who joined a cross-party initiative to legalize the distribution and use of
cannabis.
Controversy
In 2022, ''
Politico Europe'' reported that Person had been in talks with potential partners and investors to create a European
stablecoin with
Carrefour-owned fintech company Market Pay after having been at the forefront of efforts to draft France's cryptocurrency legislation.
[Elisa Braun (7 February 2022)]
Former Macron ally’s startup project raises questions over revolving doors oversight
'' Politico Europe''.
See also
*
2017 French legislative election
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References
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1989 births
Living people
Deputies of the 15th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
La République En Marche! politicians
Politicians from Nancy, France
University of Poitiers alumni
Pantheon-Sorbonne University alumni