Hélène Laporte

Hélène Laporte
Laporte in 2019
Vice President of the National Assembly
Incumbent
Assumed office
29 June 2022
Member of the National Assembly
for Lot-et-Garonne's 2nd constituency
Incumbent
Assumed office
29 June 2022
Preceded byAlexandre Freschi
Member of the European Parliament
for France
In office
2 July 2019 – 28 June 2022
Succeeded byMarie Dauchy
Personal details
Born (1978-12-29) 29 December 1978 (age 45)
Villeneuve-sur-Lot, France
Political partyNational Rally
Children2
ProfessionPolitician

Hélène Laporte (French pronunciation: [elɛn lapɔʁt]; born 29 December 1978) is a French politician who was elected as a National Rally (part of the Identity and Democracy) group Member of the European Parliament (MEP) in the 2019 European parliamentary election. She was vice president of the National Assembly from 2022 to 2024.

Early life and local political career

Hélène Laporte was born on 29 December 1978 in Villeneuve-sur-Lot, France.[1] Her mother Isabelle Laporte was elected as a National Front councillor on the Villeneuve municipal council in 2014.[2] Her maternal grandfather Jacques Laporte was a candidate for the National Front in the 1997 French legislative election.[3] She is a banking analyst for Crédit Agricole.[4][5]

Laporte joined the National Front in 2014.[6] In the 2015 French regional elections, she was elected as a councillor for the party in Lot-et-Garonne. Laporte contested the 2017 French legislative election in Lot-et-Garonne's 2nd constituency. Alexandre Freschi of the La République En Marche! party won the seat after the second round of voting.[3] National Front changed their name to National Rally in June 2018.[7]

European and national career

Laporte stood as a candidate for National Rally in the 2019 European parliamentary election. She was second on her party's list, and was elected as one of its 22 MEPs in France.[a][8][9] She is part of the Identity and Democracy group. In the European Parliament, Laporte is a member of the Committee on Budgets, and is part of the delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly.[1]

She was invited to Russia in 2020 as an "international expert" to observe the constitutional referendum that allowed Vladimir Putin to be candidate to Russian presidential elections until 2036. Despite several allegations of fraud, she called the referendum a "democracy lesson". 10 MEPs from the National Rally were invited to observe this refendum.[10] She also praised the organization of the election in the Russian journal Ria Novosti.[11]

Laporte at the inaugural plenary session of the Conference on the Future of Europe in 13 June 2021 in Strasbourg

She was elected a 2nd constituency during the 2022 French legislative election and has served as vice president of the National Assembly since 29 June 2022.

Personal life

Laporte is married, and has two children.[12][13]

Notes

  1. ^ In the election, the party won 23 seats however Jean-Lin Lacapelle was elected in a reserve seat that he can only take if the United Kingdom leaves the European Union.

References

  1. ^ a b "Hélène Laporte". European Parliament. Retrieved 28 August 2019.
  2. ^ Izambard, Antoine (4 April 2014). "Villeneuve-sur-Lot : le visage des premiers élus du Front national". Sud Ouest (in French). Retrieved 28 August 2019.
  3. ^ a b "Qui est Hélène Laporte, la Villeneuvoise en 2e position sur la liste du RN aux européennes?". La Dépêche du Midi (in French). 14 January 2019. Retrieved 28 August 2019.
  4. ^ "Déclaration d'intérêts financiers des députés" (PDF) (in French). European Parliament. 2 July 2019. p. 1. Retrieved 29 August 2019.
  5. ^ "Européennes: le RN présente une partie de sa liste, misant sur le 'renouveau'". Le Point (in French). 12 January 2019. Retrieved 29 August 2019.
  6. ^ "Élections européennes : voici les élus de Nouvelle-Aquitaine au Parlement européen" (in French). France Bleu. 27 May 2019. Retrieved 28 August 2019.
  7. ^ "France's National Front renamed 'National Rally'". Reuters. 1 June 2018. Archived from the original on 2 June 2018. Retrieved 28 August 2019.
  8. ^ Cazenave, Fabien (27 May 2019). "Élections européennes. Qui sont les 79 eurodéputés élus en France ?". Ouest-France (in French). Retrieved 28 August 2019.
  9. ^ "Marine Le Pen "fait plaisir à ses copains" sur la liste des Européennes" (in French). France Inter. 30 April 2019. Retrieved 28 August 2019.
  10. ^ "L'étonnant charter des « observateurs » français d'extrême droite pour le référendum de Poutine". Le Monde.fr (in French). 6 May 2021. Retrieved 14 June 2024.
  11. ^ "Details - Biased Observers Database". www.fakeobservers.org. Retrieved 14 June 2024.
  12. ^ "Vos élus" (in French). Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Archived from the original on 29 August 2019. Retrieved 29 August 2019.
  13. ^ "La N° 2 de la liste RN à la rencontre des aveyronnais" (in French). La Dépêche du Midi. 8 April 2019. Retrieved 29 August 2019.


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