Sébastien Chenu (born 13 April 1973) is a French politician serving as the member of the

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for the 19th constituency of

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since 2017. A former member of the

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(UMP), he has also been a spokesman of the

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(RN, until 2018 named National Front) since 2017 under the leadership of

Marine Le Pen Marion Anne Perrine "Marine" Le Pen (; born 5 August 1968) is a French lawyer and politician who ran for the French presidency in 2012, 2017, and 2022. A member of the National Rally (RN; previously the National Front, FN), she served as its pre ...

. He is currently serving as vice-president of the

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Career

Openly homosexual, Chenu founded

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, then the

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wing of the

(UMP), today part of the

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(UDI). He joined the National Front (FN) after the UMP attempted to kill

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, which legalised

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, claiming that the UMP had become "the French

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". Chenu was a vice president of the

Communauté d'agglomération du Beauvaisis The Communauté d'agglomération du Beauvaisis is a ''communauté d'agglomération'' located in the Oise Departments of France, department and in the Hauts-de-France Regions of France, region of France. Its seat is in the town Beauvais. It was cre ...

from 2001 to 2014, when he served as a deputy to Mayor

Caroline Cayeux Caroline Cayeux (born 1 November 1948) is a French politician who has been serving as Minister for Relations with Local Authorities in the government of Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne between July 2022 and November 2022. Prior to joining th ...

Beauvais Beauvais ( , ; pcd, Bieuvais) is a city and commune in northern France, and prefecture of the Oise département, in the Hauts-de-France region, north of Paris. The commune of Beauvais had a population of 56,020 , making it the most populous ...

. Since 2016, he has been a regional councillor of

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. In the 2017 legislative election, he was elected to the

in the 19th constituency of

. For the 2021 regional election, Chenu was chosen to lead the National Rally list in

References

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