Alain Péréa (born 5 June 1971) is a French politician of
La République En Marche!
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(LREM) who was elected to the
French National Assembly
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on 18 June 2017, representing the
department of
Aude
Aude ( ; ) is a Departments of France, department in Southern France, located in the Occitania (administrative region), Occitanie Regions of France, region and named after the river Aude (river), Aude. The departmental council also calls it " ...
.
Political career
In parliament, Péréa served on the Committee on Sustainable Development. In July 2019, he announced his candidacy to succeed
Barbara Pompili
Barbara Pompili (; born 13 June 1975) is a French politician who served as Minister of the Ecological Transition under Prime Minister Jean Castex from 2020 to 2022.
Pompili has previously served as member of the National Assembly for the 2nd c ...
the committee’s chair; in an internal vote, he lost against Pompili.
In addition to his committee assignments, Péréa was part of the French-Croatian Parliamentary Friendship Group and the French delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the
Union for the Mediterranean
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. He also co-chaired the Hunting and Territories group.
Péréa ran for re-election in the 2022 legislative elections but was defeated in the second round by
Frédéric Falcon of the
National Rally
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.
Other activities
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Political positions
In July 2019, Péréa voted in favor of the French ratification of the
European Union
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’s
Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement
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(CETA) with
Canada
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. In 2020, Péréa was one of the LREM members who endorsed an animal welfare referendum calling for a ban on some hunting practices that are deemed "cruel".
[Elisa Braun (August 31, 2020)]
Macron’s glue-hunting ban threatens France’s powerful lobby
''Politico Europe
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''.
See also
*
2017 French legislative election
Legislative elections in France, Legislative elections were held in France on 11 and 18 June 2017 (with different dates for voters overseas) to elect the 577 Member of Parliament (France), members of the 15th legislature of the French Fifth Rep ...
External links
His page on the National Assembly website
References
1971 births
Living people
People from Béziers
Deputies of the 15th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Renaissance (French political party) politicians
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