Sophie Mette

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Sophie Mette
Member of the National Assembly
for Gironde's 9th constituency
Assumed office
18 June 2007
Preceded byGilles Savary
Personal details
Born (1959-09-13) 13 September 1959 (age 64)
Montauban, France
Political partyMoDem (since 2007)

Sophie Mette (13 September 1959) is a French politician of the Democratic Movement (MoDem) who has been a member of the National Assembly since 18 June 2017, representing the department of Gironde.[1]

Political career

Having moved to Bazas commune in 1987, Mette was elected as a councilor for the commune in 2001 with the Miscellaneous right.[2][3]

Mette competed in the 2007 French parliamentary election with the Union for French Democracy.[4] For the 2008 municipal elections, she left the right and joined the left, where she would remain as a re-elected as councilor until 2014.[5] In the 2010 regional elections, she joined MoDem, and then joined the En Marche!-MoDem coalition in 2017.[4]

Mette currently holds a position in the Bureau of the Nation Assembly as a secretary, under the leadership of its President Richard Ferrand. She is also a member of the Committee on Cultural Affairs and Education.[6]

References

  1. ^ "Gironde - 9e circonscription : résultats des législatives". Franceinfo.
  2. ^ "Portrait : Sophie Mette". Mouvement démocrate.
  3. ^ "Législatives en Gironde : qui est Sophie Mette (REM-MoDem), nouvelle députée du Sud-Gironde". France Bleu. 18 June 2017.
  4. ^ a b Baptiste Bouthier (15 June 2017), De 2% à 40%, de loser à député : l'effet magique du «label Macron» Libération.
  5. ^ "Sophie Mette entre au Conseil régional". SudOuest.fr.
  6. ^ Sophie Mette National Assembly.