Bénédicte Peyrol (born 23 March 1991) is a French lawyer and politician of

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(LREM) who was a

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of the

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from 2017 to 2022, representing

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Early life and career

Born in Vichy, Peyrol grew up in

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. Her mother was a nursery nurse at the

Vichy Vichy (, ; ) is a city in the central French department of Allier. Located on the Allier river, it is a major spa and resort town and during World War II was the capital of Vichy France. As of 2021, Vichy has a population of 25,789. Known f ...

hospital and now takes care of the nursery of the hospital, her father is an insurer in Cusset, her grandparents were delicatessens in Varennes. She attended St. Joseph's High School and Saint-Pierre High School in Cusset, where she obtained a

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with honors. Peyrol then joined the Faculty of Law and Political Science at

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where she did her first year of law. She completed her public law degree at the Panthéon-Assas University where she then obtained a

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in business law. Since 2014, she graduated from the Master 2 International Taxation, jointly awarded by

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and Panthéon-Assas University. In August 2014, Peyrol joined the

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group as a tax specialist. In October 2015, she became a jurist. She is in charge of a European public affairs mission within a private company in recycling. As she was committed to, she resigned on 20 June 2017 to devote herself fully to her mandate as a Member of Parliament. She resigned on 20 June 2017 to devote herself fully to her mandate as a Member of Parliament

Political career

In 2016, Peyrol founded a local committee

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. For the party's youth organization, "Jeunes with Macron", she served as local representative in the

constituency.

Member of the National Assembly

Peyrol was elected to the

on 18 June 2017, representing the 3rd constituency of Allier. In the

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, Peyrol served on the

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. She is a member of the Delegation of the National Assembly to women's rights and equal opportunities between men and women and a member of the joint information mission on the procedures for prosecuting tax offenses. In this capacity, she co-authored (with

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) draft legislation in 2018 to combat large-scale tax evasion and avoidance schemes through

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in the wake of the CumEx Files revelations.Manon Rescan and Anne Michel Publié (18 December 2018)
Fraude fiscale : un dispositif pour lutter contre le « CumCum » adopté par l’Assemblée
''

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''. She was defeated in the second round of the

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by Nicolas Ray of the Republicans.

References

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Early life and career

Political career

Member of the National Assembly

See also

References