Fiona Lazaar

Fiona Lazaar
Member of the National Assembly
for Val-d'Oise's 5th constituency
In office
2017–2022
Preceded byPhilippe Doucet
Succeeded byPaul Vannier
Personal details
Born (1985-09-19) 19 September 1985 (age 38)
Val-d'Oise, France
Political partyThe New Democrats

Fiona Lazaar (born 19 September 1985) is a French politician of The New Democrats who was elected to the French National Assembly on 18 June 2017 as a member of La République En Marche! (LREM), representing Val-d'Oise's 5th constituency.[1] She left LREM and was one of the founding members of The New Democrats in 2020, but returned as an associate of LREM in 2021. She was defeated in the 2022 elections by Paul Vannier of La France Insoumise.

Political career

In parliament, Lazaar served on the Committee on Foreign Affairs.[2] In addition to her committee assignments, she was a member of the French-Singaporean Parliamentary Friendship Group.

From October 2018 to September 2020, Lazaar served as one of five deputy chairpersons of the LREM parliamentary group, under the leadership of chairman Gilles Le Gendre.[3] In July 2019, she stood as a candidate for the chairmanship of the Committee on Social Affairs; she was defeated in the second round by the incumbent chairwoman, Brigitte Bourguignon.[4]

In addition to her parliamentary work, Lazaar was appointed by Prime Minister Édouard Philippe to chair the National Council against Poverty and Social Exclusion (CNLE) in 2020.[5]

Lazaar was one of the founding members of The New Democrats in 2020.[6]

Political positions

Domestic policy

Within LREM, Lazaar aligned with Aurélien Taché, Laetitia Avia and few others in challenging secularism.[7]

In 2020, Lazaar went against her parliamentary group's majority and abstained from an important vote on a much discussed security bill drafted by her colleagues Alice Thourot and Jean-Michel Fauvergue that helped, among other measures, curtail the filming of police forces.[8][9]

Economic policy

In July 2019, Lazaar voted in favor of the French ratification of the European Union’s Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) with Canada.[10]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Elections législatives 2017". Ministry of the Interior (in French). Retrieved 30 June 2017.
  2. ^ Fiona Lazaar French National Assembly.
  3. ^ Anne-Charlotte Dusseaulx (9 October 2018), Groupe En marche à l'Assemblée: Gilles Le Gendre a choisi ses 5 vice-présidents Le Journal du Dimanche.
  4. ^ Remaniement des postes LREM à l'Assemblée: large prime aux sortants L'Obs, 24 July 2019.
  5. ^ Arrêté du 24 février 2020 portant nomination au Conseil national des politiques de lutte contre la pauvreté et l'exclusion sociale Légifrance.
  6. ^ "Aurélien Taché et Émilie Cariou coprésidents des Nouveaux démocrates". Le Point. 16 December 2020. Retrieved 16 February 2022.
  7. ^ Alexandre Lemarié (14 October 2019), Voile à l’école : Jean-Michel Blanquer demande des sanctions contre le député LRM Aurélien Taché Le Monde.
  8. ^ Analyse du scrutin n° 3254, deuxième séance du 24/11/2020: Scrutin public sur l'ensemble de la proposition de loi relative à la sécurité globale (première lecture) National Assembly.
  9. ^ Elisa Braun (24 November 2020), Controversial security bill puts pressure on French interior minister Politico Europe.
  10. ^ Maxime Vaudano (24 July 2019), CETA : qui a voté quoi parmi les députés Le Monde.