Sylvie Guillaume (born 11 June 1962) is a French politician and

Member of the European Parliament A Member of the European Parliament (MEP) is a person who has been elected to serve as a popular representative in the European Parliament. When the European Parliament (then known as the Common Assembly of the ECSC) first met in 1952, its ...

(MEP) from

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. She is a member of the

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, part of the

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Local political career

After a career in the social economy, Guillaume joined the

(PS) in 1988 in the

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. She has held various responsibilities in the French Socialist Party, including President of the Socialist National Council between 2000 and 2003. In 1998, she was elected a regional councillor in the

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and reelected in 2004. In 2001, she was elected deputy mayor of

Lyon Lyon,, ; Occitan: ''Lion'', hist. ''Lionés'' also spelled in English as Lyons, is the third-largest city and second-largest metropolitan area of France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of t ...

and was reelected in 2008.

Member of the European Parliament, 2009–present

In the 2009 European elections, Guillaume was the second candidate on the PS list in the South-East region, and was elected to the

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. She was reelected at the same position in 2014. S&D

Guillaume has been serving on the

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(LIBE) since 2009, where she is in charge of human rights. On LIBE, she was appointed in 2009

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for the directive on common procedures for granting and withdrawing international protection. She is also a substitute member of the

Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality The Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality (FEMM) is a committee of the European Parliament. Membership Chair Vice Chairs *Eugenia Rodríguez Palop * Sylwia Spurek * Elissavet Vozemberg-Vrionidi *Robert Biedroń Members *Regina Bastos ...

(FEMM) and the

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(AFCO). After being a women's rights activist, she was appointed National Secretary of the Socialist Party for Gender Equality. In addition to her committee assignments, Guillaume is a member of the

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, the European Parliament Intergroup on Artificial Intelligence and Digital, the

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, the European Parliament Intergroup on Disability, the European Parliament Intergroup on Integrity (Transparency, Anti-Corruption and Organized Crime) and the MEP Alliance for Mental Health. Between January 2012 and 2014, Guillaume served as Vice President of the

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parliamentary group in charge of Citizens' Europe, along with

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, Stephen Hughes,

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and

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. In 2012 Guillaume was responsible for immigration issues in the presidential campaign of

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. From 2014 until 2019, Guillaume served as one of the Vice Presidents of the European Parliament, under the leadership of President

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. In this capacity, she was in charge of the parliament's transparency register and served as Vice Chairwoman of the Working Group on Information and Communication Policy. In 2020, Guillaume joined

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and

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in visiting several

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s in northern

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that hold individuals displaced from the

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, including

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and Roj. Ahead of the 2022 presidential elections, Guillaume publicly declared her support for

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as the Socialists’ candidate and joined her campaign team as diplomatic adviser.Maïa de La Baume (8 February 2022)
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External links

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of Sylvie Guillaume

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Guillaume, Sylvie 1962 births Living people People from Antony, Hauts-de-Seine Politicians from Île-de-France Socialist Party (France) MEPs MEPs for South-East France 2014–2019 MEPs for France 2019–2024 21st-century women MEPs for France French socialist feminists