Sylvie Ferrer

Sylvie Ferrer
French MP
Incumbent
Assumed office
June 22, 2022
Preceded byJean-Bernard Sempastous
Parliamentary groupLFI
Personal details
Born (1967-11-06) 6 November 1967 (age 57)
Toulouse, France
Political partyLFI

Sylvie Ferrer (born November 6, 1967) is a French politician.

A member of La France insoumise, she was elected MP for the 1st constituency of Hautes-Pyrénées in 2022.

Biography

Political career

An environmentalist and anti-globalization activist, she is a member of the Attac association and has led numerous struggles.[1]

She was a candidate in the 2015 regional elections on the ecologist list led by Gérard Onesta, then joined La France insoumise in 2017.[1]

As a candidate in the 2017 legislative elections in the first constituency of Hautes-Pyrénées, she qualified for the second round by eliminating former Socialist minister Jean Glavany. She was defeated in the second round by La République en marche candidate Jean-Bernard Sempastous.[2]

In 2021, she is a candidate in the regional elections on the Occitanie populaire list, supported by La France insoumise in the Hautes-Pyrénées department.[3] The same year, she was a deputy in the Hautes-Pyrénées departmental elections in the Haute-Bigorre canton.[4]

Ferrer was subsequently appointed by Union Populaire activists to lead Jean-Luc Mélenchon's presidential campaign.[5] On 7 May 2022, she was officially nominated as the candidate for the Nouvelle Union populaire écologique et sociale (NUPES) in the same constituency at a national convention.[6]

On 12 June, in the first round of voting, she came out on top, beating the incumbent deputy from the presidential majority, Jean-Bernard Sempastous. Sylvie Ferrer was elected MP for Hautes-Pyrénées on June 19, 2022 with 50.13% of the vote.[7]

At the French National Assembly, she is a member of the Sustainable Development and Spatial Planning Committee.[8]

Personal life

Ferrer is an aeronautical maintenance agent.[1] She has a husband, who works as a high school teacher, and a daughter.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Sylvie Ferrer, le militantisme comme socle politique". ladepeche.fr (in French). Retrieved 2023-09-01.
  2. ^ "Hautes-Pyrénées - 1re circonscription : Liste des résultats - Elections législatives 2017 - Assemblée nationale". www2.assemblee-nationale.fr (in French). Retrieved 2023-09-01.
  3. ^ "Tarbes – La liste des candidats de la France Insoumise, NPA et GDS sur les Hautes-Pyrénées pour les Régionales". lasemainedespyrenees.fr (in French). Retrieved 2023-09-01.
  4. ^ "Haute-Bigorre : Le programme de Viktoria Klotz et Michel Lyonne" (in French). 2021-06-14. Retrieved 2023-09-01.
  5. ^ "VOS CANDIDAT·E·S AUX LÉGISLATIVES 2022 DANS LES HAUTES-PYRÉNÉES". legislatives65.fr (in French). Retrieved 2023-09-01.
  6. ^ "LÉGISLATIVES 2022 : LES CANDIDATS NUPES RÉUNIS À AUBERVILLIERS EN CONVENTION D'INVESTITURE". cnews.fr (in French). Retrieved 2023-09-01.
  7. ^ "Elections législatives 2022". resultats-elections.interieur.gouv.fr (in French). Retrieved 2023-09-01.
  8. ^ "Faut-il restreindre la pratique de la chasse ? Le débat à gauche". mediapart.fr (in French). Retrieved 2023-09-01.