Sylvie Goy-Chavent, born Sylvie Chavant (born 23 May 1963 in
Dunkirk) is a French
politician
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and a member of the
Senate of France
The Senate (french: Sénat, ) is the upper house of the French Parliament, with the lower house being the National Assembly, the two houses constituting the legislature of France. The French Senate is made up of 348 senators (''sénateurs'' a ...
. She represents the
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 ...
department and is a member of the
Radical Party. From 1995 to 2017 she was also the Mayor of
Cerdon, Ain.
She was reelected in the
2020 French Senate election
Senatorial elections were held on 27 September 2020 to pick 172 of the 348 seats in the Senate of the French Fifth Republic. The elections were a modest victory for the centre-right Republicans. The environmentalist Europe Ecology – The Gre ...
.
Ahead of the
2022 presidential elections, Goy-Chavent publicly declared her support for
Michel Barnier as the Republicans’ candidate.
[Emmanuel Galiero (1 October 2021)]
Présidentielle 2022 : Michel Barnier engrange le soutien de 51 parlementaires de droite
''Le Figaro
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''.
References
Page on the Senate website
1963 births
Living people
People from Dunkirk
Politicians from Hauts-de-France
Union for a Popular Movement politicians
Radical Party (France) politicians
French Senators of the Fifth Republic
Senators of Ain
Mayors of places in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Women mayors of places in France
Women members of the Senate (France)
21st-century French women politicians
Union of Democrats and Independents politicians
Regional councillors of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
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