Benoît Potterie

Benoît Potterie
Member of the National Assembly for the Pas-de-Calais's 8th constituency
In office
June 2017 (2017-June) – June 2022 (2022-June)
Preceded byMichel Lefait
Succeeded byBertrand Petit
Personal details
Born (1967-07-23) 23 July 1967 (age 57)
Calais, France
Political partyLa République En Marche!
Alma materHenri Poincaré University

Benoît Potterie (French pronunciation: [bənwa pɔtʁi]; born 23 July 1967) is a French optician and politician of La République En Marche! (LREM) who served as a member of the National Assembly of France from 2017 to 2022,[1] representing the department of Pas-de-Calais.[2]

Political career

In parliament, Potterie served as member of the Committee on Economic Affairs (2017-2019) and the Finance Committee (2019-2020) before moving to the Cultural and Education Affairs Committee.[3] In addition to his committee assignments, he was part of the French-Albanian Parliamentary Friendship Group and the French Parliamentary Friendship Group with Bosnia and Herzegovina.

In 2019, Potterie was one of only nine LREM members who voted against his parliamentary group's majority and opposed the French ratification of the European Union’s Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) with Canada.[4][5] In 2020, Potterie joined the Agir party's parliamentary group.[6]

In the 2022 French legislative election, he stood as a Horizons (Ensemble) candidate.[7] He lost his seat in the first round.[8]

See also

References

  1. ^ Marius Bocquet (13 June 2022), Résultats législatives 2022 : qui sont les 65 députés sortants éliminés au premier tour ? Le Figaro.
  2. ^ "Elections législatives 2017". Ministry of the Interior (in French). Retrieved 19 June 2017.
  3. ^ Benoît Potterie French National Assembly.
  4. ^ Le CETA, controversé accord de libre-échange avec le Canada, approuvé à l’Assemblée Le Monde, 23 July 2019.
  5. ^ Maxime Vaudano (24 July 2019), CETA : qui a voté quoi parmi les députés Le Monde.
  6. ^ À l'Assemblée, le groupe LREM enregistre un 40e départ en trois ans Le Figaro, 17 September 2020.
  7. ^ "Clap de fin pour Benoît Potterie, éliminé de peu au premier tour". L'indépendant (in French). 13 June 2022. Retrieved 16 June 2022.
  8. ^ "Législatives 2022 : qui sont les députés sortants éliminés au premier tour ?". France 3 Hauts-de-France (in French). Retrieved 16 June 2022.