Laetitia Avia

Laetitia Avia
Member of the National Assembly
for Paris's 8th constituency
In office
21 June 2017 – 21 June 2022
Preceded bySandrine Mazetier
Succeeded byÉva Sas
Personal details
Born (1985-10-29) 29 October 1985 (age 39)
Livry-Gargan, France
Political partyLa République En Marche!
Alma materSciences Po
ProfessionLawyer

Laetitia Avia (born 29 October 1985) is a French lawyer and politician of La République En Marche! (LREM) who served as the member of the National Assembly for the 8th constituency of Paris from 2017[1] to 2022,[2] representing a constituency covering parts of the 12th and 20th arrondissements.

Early life and education

Avia is of Togolese descent and grew up in Seine-Saint-Denis, Paris’s northern suburbs.[3] Her parents moved there from Togo, where her father studied engineering and her mother was a midwife. In France, her father worked as an airport luggage handler and driver and her mother as a nurse. Avia acquired French nationality at age 13.[4]

Avia studied at Sciences Po in Paris and McGill University’s law school in Montreal. She began her career as a corporate lawyer with Darrois Villey Maillot Brochier before co-founding APE Avocats in 2016.[5] Early in her career, she made her mark as a lawyer involved in corporate disputes and was active in projects in sub-Saharan Africa.[6]

Political career

When Emmanuel Macron created his own party in 2016, then called En Marche, Avia joined and offered her help. Macron subsequently took her on as a legal expert.[7]

Avia was one of the first fourteen candidates selected by Macron to run as LREM candidate for the 2017 French legislative election. She won the eighth district of Paris with 65 percent of the vote.[8] In parliament, she served on the Committee on Legal Affairs. In this capacity, she was the parliament’s rapporteur on hate speech legislation.[9] In 2018, she proposed to classify discrimination against France’s regional accents – so-called “glottophobia” – with other forms of prohibited discrimination such as on grounds of sex or race.[10] That same year, she was appointed co-rapporteur (with Didier Paris) on justice reform.

In addition to her committee assignments, Avia was a member of the French-Canadian Parliamentary Friendship Group and of the French-Ghanaian Parliamentary Friendship Group.

From late 2017 on, Avia was part of LREM's 20-member executive board under the leadership of the party's chairman Christophe Castaner, in charge of communications.[11][12]

In September 2018, after Richard Ferrand's election as president of the National Assembly, Avia announced her candidacy to succeed him as chair of the LREM group. In an internal vote, however, she was eliminated in the first ballot.[13] In July 2019, she stood as a candidate for the chairmanship of the Committee on Legal Affairs; however, she was defeated in the second round by the incumbent chairwoman, Yaël Braun-Pivet.[14]

In May 2020, Avia's draft law against hate speech, now referred to as the Avia Law (France), was adopted by the National Assembly.[15] Shortly after, it was challenged before the Constitutional Council by a group of conservative senators; the Council ruled in June 2020 that large parts of the law were unconstitutional.[16]

After the second round of the legislative elections on the 19th of June 2020 she lost her position in the assembly, losing to Eva Sas.

Controversies

In 2017, Avia was accused of biting a taxi driver. The driver's debit machine was not working and she did not have cash to pay the fare. When the driver continued to drive to a cash machine, the police report noted that she acknowledged she bit him to stop the car. She later denied the bite, saying that she had grabbed him by the shoulder. She filed a complaint against the driver for attempted theft and kidnapping while the driver filed a claim against her for assault.[17][18][19]

In a 12 May 2020 article from the online investigation site Mediapart, former parliamentary assistants accused Avia of using racist, sexist and homophobic language in communicating with her team. They accused her of harassing an assistant with frequent racist comments in order to get him to resign instead of having to fire him. The publication of this article happened the day before the final vote at the parliament for a law brought forth by Mrs Avia and aiming at censoring hate speech online.[20][21] On 18 May, her former collaborators announced that they would formally file a complaint for workplace harassment.[22]

According to the previously mentioned Mediapart article, Avia asked her assistants to remove information about the taxi driver controversy from her Wikipedia page in French. In the history of the page journalists found modifications made by IP addresses from the French National Assembly.[23]

Other activities

  • African Business Lawyers Club (ABLC), Member[24]
  • Club XXIe siècle, Member[25]

Political positions

In May 2018, Avia co-sponsored an initiative in favour of legalizing assisted reproductive technology (ART) for all women (singles, heterosexual couples or lesbian couples).[26]

In 2020, Avia was one of the LREM members who endorsed an animal welfare referendum calling for a ban on some hunting practices that are deemed “cruel.”[27]

Personal life

Avia is married and lives with her partner in Vincennes.[28]

References

  1. ^ "Elections législatives 2017". Ministry of the Interior (in French). Retrieved 19 June 2017.
  2. ^ Giorgio Leali, Peter O'Brien and Louise Guillot (23 June 2022), Who’s in and who’s out in Macronia — and what it means for the EU Politico Europe.
  3. ^ Diversity gains ground in France's new-look National Assembly after vote France 24, 21 June 2017.
  4. ^ Emilie Boyer King (5 March 2018), French MP Laetitia Avia victim of racist threats speaks up France 24.
  5. ^ Diversity gains ground in France's new-look National Assembly after vote France 24, June 2017.
  6. ^ French MP Laetitia Avia counters cab-driver 'bite' claim BBC News, 5 July 2017.
  7. ^ Emilie Boyer King (5 March 2018), French MP Laetitia Avia victim of racist threats speaks up France 24.
  8. ^ Diversity gains ground in France's new-look National Assembly after vote France 24, 21 June 2017.
  9. ^ Laura Kayali, Rym Momtaz and Nicholas Vinocur (10 May 2019), Emmanuel Macron’s plan to fix Facebook, YouTube and Twitter Politico Europe.
  10. ^ Myriam Rivet (19 October 2018), French lawmaker proposes bill to outlaw mockery of accents Reuters.
  11. ^ Le Conseil de La République En Marche ! La République En Marche!, press release of 16 October 2017.
  12. ^ Castaner, à la tête de La République en marche, se veut «un animateur, un facilitateur» Le Parisien, 18 November 2017.
  13. ^ Siraud, Mathilde; Boichot, Loris (18 August 2018). "Gilles Le Gendre succède à Richard Ferrand à la tête des députés LaREM". Le Figaro.
  14. ^ Mathilde Siraud and Loris Boichot (18 September 2018), Remaniement des postes LREM à l'Assemblée: large prime aux sortants L'Obs.
  15. ^ Laura Kayali (13 May 2020), France gives final green light to law cracking down on hate speech online Politico Europe.
  16. ^ Laura Kayali (18 June 2020), French constitutional court strikes down most of hate speech law Politico Europe.
  17. ^ Rising Macron star denies 'biting taxi driver' as French president faces claims he is 'drunk on power'. Henry Samuel, TheTelegraph.co.uk, 5 July 2017.
  18. ^ "French MP counters driver 'bite' claim". BBC News. 5 July 2017. Retrieved 14 May 2020.
  19. ^ Kirby, Will (6 July 2017). "Emmanuel Macron's MP 'BIT taxi driver over €12 cab fare because she had NO CASH on her'". Express.co.uk. Retrieved 14 May 2020.
  20. ^ Perrotin, David (12 May 2020). "Laetitia Avia, la députée LREM qui horrifie ses assistants". Mediapart.
  21. ^ Paris, Adam Sage (14 May 2020). "Macron's rising star Laetitia Avia accused of racism". The Times. Retrieved 14 May 2020.
  22. ^ "Macron's rising star Laetitia Avia accused of racism" (in French). La Dépêche du Midi. 18 May 2020. Retrieved 18 May 2020.
  23. ^ Bechade, Corentin (13 May 2020). "Comment Laetitia Avia a tenté de caviarder sa fiche Wikipedia" (in French).
  24. ^ Laura Thouny (4 July 2017), 10 choses à savoir sur Laetitia Avia, la députée citée en exemple par Edouard Philippe L'Obs.
  25. ^ Laura Thouny (4 July 2017), 10 choses à savoir sur Laetitia Avia, la députée citée en exemple par Edouard Philippe L'Obs.
  26. ^ La PMA pour toutes, un acte d’égalité Libération, 29 May 2018.
  27. ^ Elisa Braun (31 August 2020), Macron’s glue-hunting ban threatens France’s powerful lobby Politico Europe.
  28. ^ Laura Thouny (4 July 2017), 10 choses à savoir sur Laetitia Avia, la députée citée en exemple par Edouard Philippe L'Obs.

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