Sylvie Goy-Chavent
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Sylvie Goy-Chavent, born Sylvie Chavant (born 23 May 1963 in Dunkirk) is a French
politician A politician is a person active in party politics, or a person holding or seeking an elected office in government. Politicians propose, support, reject and create laws that govern the land and by an extension of its people. Broadly speaking ...
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
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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 {{France-politician-UDI-stub