Marie Tamarelle-Verhaeghe

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Marie Tamarelle-Verhaeghe
Member of the National Assembly
for Eure's 3rd constituency
In office
21 June 2017 – 21 June 2022
Preceded byHervé Morin
Succeeded byKévin Mauvieux
Personal details
Born
Marie Tamarelle

(1962-09-27) 27 September 1962 (age 61)
La République En Marche! (2017–present)
Other political
affiliations
Union of Democrats and Independents (until 2017)
Democratic Movement (2017)
ProfessionPhysician

Marie Tamarelle-Verhaeghe (nee Tamarelle; born 27 September 1962) is a French physician and politician who represented the

La République En Marche! (LREM), she was elected to Parliament as a member of the Democratic Movement
(MoDem).

Political career

Tamarelle-Verhaeghe has served as a departmental councillor of Eure for the canton of Bourg-Achard since 2015. She held one of the departmental council's vice presidencies from 2015 to 2017.

When the

En Marche
instead.

In Parliament, Tamarelle-Verhaeghe serves on the Committee on Social Affairs. In addition to her committee assignments, she is part of the French-Cameroonian Parliamentary Friendship Group and the French-Madagascar Parliamentary Friendship Group.[2]

In 2020, Tamarelle-Verhaeghe joined the

Ensemble Citoyens alliance formed around the La République En Marche! party of President Emmanuel Macron.[3]

In the 2022 French legislative election, she lost her seat to Kévin Mauvieux of the National Rally in the second round.

Political positions

In July 2019, Tamarelle-Verhaeghe voted in favour of the French ratification of the European Union's Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) with Canada.[4]

Also in 2019, Tamarelle-Verhaeghe abstained from a vote on a bioethics law extending to homosexual and single women free access to fertility treatments such as in vitro fertilisation (IVF) under France's national health insurance; it was one of the campaign promises of President Emmanuel Macron and marked the first major social reform of his five-year term.[5][6]

Other activities

  • National Institute for Cancer (INCa), Member of the Board of Directors (appointed in 2018)[7]

References

  1. ^ "Eure - 3e circonscription: Résultats des élections législatives 2022 - en direct". Franceinfo (in French). Retrieved 11 July 2022.
  2. ^ "Mme Marie Tamarelle-Verhaeghe - Mandat clos - Eure (3e circonscription)". Assemblée nationale. Retrieved 11 July 2022.
  3. ^ Thierry, Maël (22 May 2020). "L'appel de 46 députés LREM : « Nous voulons peser de l'intérieur »". L'Obs (in French). Retrieved 11 July 2022.
  4. ^ Vaudano, Maxime (24 July 2019). "CETA : qui a voté quoi parmi les députés". Le Monde.fr (in French). Retrieved 11 July 2022.
  5. ^ Agnew, Harriet (24 September 2019). "France moves to extend IVF to gay and single women". Financial Times. Retrieved 11 July 2022.
  6. ^ Cordier, Solène; Carriat, Julie (15 October 2019). "Au-delà des lignes partisanes, large adoption du projet de loi de bioéthique à l'Assemblée". Le Monde.fr (in French). Retrieved 11 July 2022.
  7. ^ "Paris-Normandie - Info et actu locale, régionale et nationale". Paris-Normandie (in French). 14 February 2018. Retrieved 11 July 2022.