Sarah El Haïry (born 16 March 1989) is a French politician of the

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(MoDem). She most recently served as Minister Delegate for Youth, Childhood, and Family in the

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in 2024. Previously, she was Secretary of State for Biodiversity from 2023 to 2024 in the

Borne government The Borne government ( French: ''gouvernement Borne'') was the forty-third government of the French Fifth Republic, formed on 16 May 2022 and headed by Élisabeth Borne as Prime Minister under President Emmanuel Macron. It served as a caretake ...

. El Haïry has also held the position of Secretary of State for Youth and the National Universal Service in two separate terms: first in the

Castex government The Castex government ( French: ''gouvernement Castex'') was the forty-second government of the French Fifth Republic, formed on 3 July 2020 and headed by Jean Castex as Prime Minister under the presidency of Emmanuel Macron. It was dissolved on ...

from 2020 to 2022, and then in the Borne government from 2022 to 2023. A former member of the

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, she represented

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's 5th constituency from 2017 to 2020 and briefly again in 2022.

Early life and education

Born to Franco-Moroccan parents, El Haïry attended school in

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and graduated from Lycée Lyautey high school in

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in Morocco. El Haïry studied law in

Nantes Nantes (, ; ; or ; ) is a city in the Loire-Atlantique department of France on the Loire, from the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic coast. The city is the List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, sixth largest in France, with a pop ...

and stayed in

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before becoming a trader in a

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Political career

Initially active within the

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(UMP), El Haïry left the party and joined

(MoDem) in 2010. In parliament, El Haïry served as member of the Finance Committee from 2017 until 2020 and on the Committee on Legal Affairs from 2018 until 2019. In this capacity, she was the parliament's

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on a 2018 bill aimed at improving the financial situation of associations and authored a 2019 report on

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in France. In addition to her committee assignments, she was part of the French-Cypriot Parliamentary Friendship Group. Since February 2018, El Haïry has been serving as MoDem's spokesperson, alongside

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. In July 2020, El Haïry was appointed Secretary of State for the Youth to the Minister of National Education, Youth and Sports

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Political positions

El Haïry opposed the

Aéroport du Grand Ouest The Grand Ouest Airport, or Aéroport du Grand Ouest Project was a project for a new airport, to be situated to the north-west of the French city of Nantes in the ''commune'' of Notre-Dame-des-Landes. It was intended for the new airport to replac ...

project.

Personal life

In April 2023, El Haïry

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herself in an interview as a

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woman, making her the first cabinet member in French history to do so.Queer.de: Sarah El Haïry outet sich als erste Frau im französischen Kabinett
(in

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), April 2023

References

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