Hugues Renson

Hugues Renson
Member of the National Assembly
for Paris's 13th constituency
In office
21 June 2017 – 21 June 2022
Preceded byJean-François Lamour
Succeeded byDavid Amiel
Personal details
Born (1978-02-11) 11 February 1978 (age 46)
Paris, France
Political partyRenaissance (2017–present)
Other political
affiliations		United Republic (2010–2012)
Alma materSciences Po

Hugues Renson (born 11 February 1978) is a French politician who represented the 13th constituency of Paris in the National Assembly from 2017 to 2022. A member of La République En Marche! (LREM), his constituency encompasses the southern half of the Paris's 15th arrondissement.

Education and early career

Renson, who graduated from Sciences Po in 2001, served as a councillor to President Jacques Chirac (2004–2007), in charge of social affairs.

Political career

In the 2012 presidential election, Renson publicly endorsed the Socialist Party's candidate François Hollande.[1] Similarly, he voted for Socialist candidate Anne Hidalgo, a family friend, in the 2014 Paris municipal election.[2]

In 2017, Renson joined Emmanuel Macron's La République En Marche! party.[3] He was elected to the National Assembly in the legislative election later that year, as the MP for Paris's 13th constituency, defeating incumbent Jean-François Lamour of The Republicans party.[4] He took office on 21 June 2017. Renson was elected a week later by his peers to one of the six vice-presidencies of the National Assembly, a rare occurrence for a new member, a position in which he succeeded David Habib of the Socialist Party. He also serves on the Committee on Foreign Affairs. In addition to his committee assignments, he is a member of the French-Greek Parliamentary Friendship Group and the French-Lebanese Parliamentary Friendship Group.[5]

In late 2018, Renson, Aurélien Taché and Matthieu Orphelin convened a group of around 20 members of the LREM parliamentary group with a "wish to express a humanist, social and ecological sensibility and to better raise citizens' concerns"; the initiative was widely interpreted as the launch of a left-wing faction within the group.[6] In 2020, he joined forces with Barbara Pompili as co-founder of En Commun, a group of centre-left LREM politicians.[7]

Ahead of the 2020 Paris municipal election, Renson failed to win the party nomination for the mayorship against Benjamin Griveaux. He subsequently endorsed Cédric Villani, who also failed to win the nomination but decided to run as an Independent.[8]

In February 2022, Renson announced he would not seek reelection to a second term as an MP. In his announcement, he heavily criticised the lack of internal debate within the outgoing parliamentary majority, stating: "When we all think the same thing, it is because in reality we do not think anything".[9]

Political positions

In May 2018, Renson co-sponsored an initiative in favour of legalising assisted reproductive technology (ART) for all women (singles, heterosexual couples or lesbian couples).[10]

In July 2019, Renson voted in favour of the French ratification of the European Union's Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) with Canada.[11]

In 2020, Renson went against his parliamentary group's majority and abstained from an important vote on a much discussed security bill drafted by his colleagues Alice Thourot and Jean-Michel Fauvergue that would have helped, among other measures, curtail the filming of police forces.[12][13] Although the bill passed Parliament, the disputed measure was struck down by the Constitutional Council before it would have entered in application.[14]

In early 2021, Renson joined ten fellow LREM lawmakers in demanding the end of the state of emergency declared by the government of Prime Minister Jean Castex in response to the COVID-19 pandemic in France.[15][16]

References

  1. ^ Segaunes, Nathalie (16 November 2016), Hugues Renson, de Chirac à Macron, en passant par Hollande... L'Opinion (in French).
  2. ^ Vigoureux, Caroline (19 July 2019), Anne Hidalgo et Hugues Renson, Paris pour pari L'Opinion (in French).
  3. ^ Jérôme, Béatrice (11 May 2017). "Renson, chiraquien d'En marche !, face à Lamour, chiraquien de LR". Le Monde (in French). Retrieved 24 June 2017.
  4. ^ "Elections législatives 2017". Ministry of the Interior (in French). Retrieved 19 June 2017.
  5. ^ Hugues Renson French National Assembly.
  6. ^ Siraud, Mathilde (20 December 2018), Des députés LaREM s'organisent pour peser Le Figaro (in French).
  7. ^ Quinault-Maupoil, Tristan (3 September 2020), Hugues Renson: «J’en appelle à la constitution d’une maison commune» Le Figaro (in French).
  8. ^ Cosnard, Denis (10 July 2019), Elections municipales à Paris : Benjamin Griveaux choisi pour représenter LRM Le Monde (in French).
  9. ^ Quinault-Maupoil, Tristan (16 February 2022). "Vice-président de l'Assemblée, Hugues Renson (LREM) ne se représentera pas". www.lefigaro.fr (in French). Retrieved 16 February 2022.
  10. ^ "La PMA pour toutes, un acte d’égalité", Libération (in French), 29 May 2018.
  11. ^ Vaudano, Maxime (24 July 2019), "CETA : qui a voté quoi parmi les députés", Le Monde (in French).
  12. ^ 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) French National Assembly.
  13. ^ Darmanin, Jules (27 November 2020), "French government plan to rewrite security bill has MPs up in arms", Politico Europe.
  14. ^ "Policiers filmés : le Conseil constitutionnel censure l'ex-article 24, controversé", Le Figaro (in French), 20 May 2021.
  15. ^ Woessner, Géraldine (18 February 2021), "Dix députés LREM demandent la sortie de l’état d’urgence", Le Point (in French).
  16. ^ Lepelletier, Pierre (19 February 2021), "Dix députés de l'aile gauche de LREM demandent la sortie de l'état d'urgence", Le Figaro (in French).