Barbara Pompili

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Barbara Pompili (born 13 June 1975) is a French politician who served as

Born in Bois-Bernard, Pas-de-Calais, Pompili grew up in Liévin. She graduated from Sciences Po Lille.

Political career

Early career

First elected to the National Assembly in the 2012 legislative election, Pompili was the first female president of a parliamentary group in the lower house, co-leading the EELV group with François de Rugy, from 2012 until 2016. She also served on the Committee on Education and Cultural Affairs.

In 2016, Pompili was appointed Secretary of State for Biodiversity in the

In September 2018, after François de Rugy's appointment to the government, Pompili ran for the presidency of the National Assembly.^[9] In an internal vote within the LREM parliamentary group, she came in second; the position eventually went to the group's then-president Richard Ferrand.^[10]

Minister of the Ecological Transition, 2020–2022

Pompili co-founded a new political party; En Commun in 2020.^[11]

During Pompili's time in office, France banned plastic packaging for nearly all fruit and vegetables from 2022 in a bid to reduce

When state-owned electric utility EDF shut down four reactors – with a combined daily capacity of 6 gigawatts (GW), equivalent to around 13 percent of current availability in France – due to technical problems in late 2021, Pompili asked the company to conduct an independent audit on the availability of its nuclear power stations.^[13]

Life after politics

In October 2023, Pompili was appointed to the General Secretariat for Ecological Planning (SGPE), serving as President Macron's Special Envoy for the 2024 One Water Summit.^[14]

Political positions

In July 2019, Pompili decided not to align with her parliamentary group's majority and became one of 52 LREM members who abstained from a vote on the French ratification of the European Union’s Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) with Canada.^[15] She also defended amendments on the transparency and labeling of genetically modified organisms used in food products in defiance of the government's advice, as well as opposed delays in the country's strategy to reduce pesticides use and the phase-out of glyphosate.^[16]

In September 2020, Pompili publicly endorsed Aurore Bergé for the position of the LREM parliamentary group's chair; the position instead went to Christophe Castaner.^[17]

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