Sophia Chikirou (; born 3 June 1979) is a French politician who has represented the 6th constituency of

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in the

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since 22 May 2022. A member of La France Insoumise (FI), she was elected to Parliament in the first round of the 2022 legislative election. Chikirou has also served as a member of the Regional Council of Île-de-France since

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Political career

A native of

Bonneville, Haute-Savoie Bonneville (; ) is a subprefecture of the Haute-Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in Eastern France. In 2018, the commune had a population of 12,557. Geography Bonneville is on the A40 autoroute, roughly halfway between Ge ...

, Chikirou grew up in

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. She joined the

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in 1997. From 2002 to 2007, Chikirou worked as a parliamentary assistant for Michel Charzat, who represented the 21st constituency of

in the National Assembly. She was excluded from the party in 2006 along with Charzat after they refused to rally behind

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, the party's nominee for 2007 legislative election in the constituency. Charzat ran for reelection as a Socialist dissident under the miscellaneous left label with Chikirou as his substitute but was defeated. As a member of La France Insoumise since 2016, she was

Jean-Luc Mélenchon Jean-Luc Antoine Pierre Mélenchon (; born 19 August 1951) is a French politician who was a member of the National Assembly for the 4th constituency of Bouches-du-Rhône from 2017 to 2022. He led the ''La France Insoumise'' group in the Nation ...

's presidential campaign communications director in the 2017 election. In the 2022 legislative election, she was elected to Parliament for the 6th constituency of

, where she succeeded one-term incumbent Pierre Person of

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who declined to run for reelection.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Chikirou, Sophia 1979 births Living people People from Bonneville, Haute-Savoie French people of Algerian descent Socialist Party (France) politicians Modern Left politicians Left Party (France) politicians La France Insoumise politicians Deputies of the 16th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic Members of Parliament for Paris Women members of the National Assembly (France) Members of the Regional Council of Île-de-France 21st-century French women politicians Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University alumni