Mireille Clapot (born 14 October 1963) is a French politician of Renaissance (RE) who has been serving as a member of the National Assembly from 2017 elections to 2024, representing the 1st constituency of the Drôme department.
Mireille Clapot | |
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| Member of the French National Assembly for Drôme's 1st constituency | |
| In office 21 June 2017 – 9 June 2024 | |
| Preceded by | Patrick Labaune |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 14 October 1963 Belley, France |
| Political party | Renaissance |
Early life and education
editBorn in Belley (in the Ain department) on 14 October 1963, Clapot moved to La Roche-de-Glun (Drôme department) in 1990. She is the mother of three children.[1] Clapot went to the Lycée du Parc in Lyon, then was accepted to the École Centrale de Paris.
Early career
editClapot worked for 25 years in various industrial companies in the Rhône-Alpes region, at first as a Marketing Department employee at Bonnet Cuisines in Villefranche sur Saône, at BSN Emballage (now Owens-Illinois) in Villeurbanne, at Markem Imaje in Bourg-lès-Valence, and at Pavailler in Portes-lès-Valence. She subsequently joined the Purchasing Department at Thalès Avionics, and then at the SNCF in Lyon. In 2007, she quit her position as the Human Resources and Operations Director at Decalog in Guilherand Granges to join the Valence city administration as Purchasing Manager. In 2013 she began working as the Director of Development and Company Relations at the École Centrale de Lyon.
She stopped working at the start of her term as a representative in 2017.[2]
Political career
editEarly beginnings
editClapot has been a part of Amnesty International since 1990. She has repeatedly stated that she "owes her intellectual development to this organization that struggles to defend human rights". In 1992 she co-founded the Drôme-Néva-Volga association, a Franco-Russian friendship organization. In 2015, she founded the Mobili-Tain-Tournon association, which strives to increase access to transportation, internet and culture in the area surrounding Tournon-sur-Rhône.
Between 2009 and 2013, Clapot was the cabinet director of mayor Alain Maurice (Socialist Party) of Valence.[3]
Member of the National Assembly, 2017–2024
editIn the 2017 French legislative election, Clapot was elected in the Drôme department's first constituency, taking 56.89 % of the vote during the second round of the election.[4]
In October 2017, Clapot was elected vice-president of the Committee on Foreign Affairs.[5] She was reelected to this position in October 2018. She is also vice-president of the Franco-Russian Parliamentary Friendship Group and secretary of the Franco-Croatian Parliamentary Friendship Group.[6]
In 2020, Clapot joined En commun (EC), a group within LREM led by Barbara Pompili.[7] In 2023, she left the Renaissance group, together with Pompili, Stella Dupont and Cécile Rilhac.[8]
She wa reelected in the 2022 election. In the 2024 election, she came fourth in the first round, and lost her seat.[9]
Political positions
editForeign policy
editIn April 2018, as a rapporteur of the "women's rights abroad" fact-finding mission, Clapot published the "100 propositions for a feminist diplomatic policy" report.[10]
Since May 2019, Clapot has been publicly advocating for a French equivalent to the Magnitsky Act in the United States.[11][12]
In July 2019, Clapot voted in favor of the French ratification of the European Union’s Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) with Canada.[13]
On Clapot's initiative, a group of sixty-six French MPs and MEPs from different political groups co-signed a 2020 op-ed in Le Monde calling for the release of Ramy Shaath and other human rights defenders arbitrarily detained in Egypt.[14]
Domestic policy
editIn July 2018, Clapot introduced a bill (which has now passed into law) against street racing and other dangerous uses of motorized vehicles for recreational purposes. The bill created a special status for this type of violation, allowing law enforcement to seize the vehicle and enabling the immediate appearance in court of the perpetrators.[15]
On immigration, Clapot is considered to be part of her parliamentary group's more liberal wing. In late 2019, she was among the critics of the government's legislative proposals on immigrations and instead joined 17 LREM members who recommended, in particular, greater access to the labour market for migrants, but also "specific measures for collaboration with the authorities of safe countries, such as Albania and Georgia, in order to inform candidates for departure, in their country of origin, of what the asylum application really is."[16]
In 2020, Clapot was one of the LREM members who endorsed an animal welfare referendum calling for a ban on some hunting practices that are deemed “cruel.”[17] Also in 2020, Clapot went against her parliamentary group's majority and abstained from an important vote on a much discussed security bill drafted by her colleagues Alice Thourot and Jean-Michel Fauvergue that helps, among other measures, curtail the filming of police forces.[18][19]
Bibliography
edit- Mireille Clapot, De l'île Diomède, j'édifierai ce pont (novel), ThoT, 2018.
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "Législatives 2017. Mireille Clapot (LREM) est élue dans la 1ère circonscription de la Drôme". France 3 Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (in French). 18 June 2017. Retrieved 29 July 2019.
- ^ "Législatives : qui Mireille Clapot (REM), la nouvelle députée de la 1re circonscription de la Drôme ?". France Bleu (in French). 18 June 2017. Retrieved 29 July 2019.
- ^ "Législatives 2017 : trois femmes investies par LREM dans la Drôme". La Tribune (in French). 11 May 2017. Retrieved 29 July 2019.
- ^ Ministère de l'Intérieur (18 June 2017). "Élections législatives 2017". elections.interieur.gouv.fr. Retrieved 19 May 2018..
- ^ Patrick Kingsley (23 June 2019), Trump’s Iran Reversal Raises Allies’ Doubts Over His Tactics, and U.S. Power New York Times.
- ^ "Mme Mireille Clapot - Drôme (1re circonscription) - Assemblée nationale". www2.assemblee-nationale.fr. Retrieved 29 July 2019.
- ^ Maël Thierry (22 May 2020), L’appel de 46 députés LREM : « Nous voulons peser de l’intérieur » L'Obs.
- ^ Mariama Darame and Jérémie Lamothe (11 April 2023), Assemblée nationale : Barbara Pompili et trois autres députées se détachent du groupe Renaissance Le Figaro.
- ^ "Drôme — Législatives — La gauche et le RN en tête dans la première circonscription". peuple-libre.fr. 30 June 2024.
- ^ "Rapport d'information déposé en application de l'article 145 du règlement, par la commission des affaires étrangères en conclusion des travaux d'une mission d'information constituée le 24 octobre 2017 sur la place des droits des femmes dans la diplomatie française (Mme Mireille Clapot et Mme Laurence Dumont)".
- ^ Anti-Kremlin campaigner calls for 'French Magnitsky act' France 24, 15 May 2019.
- ^ Fabrice Nodé-Langlois (15 May 2019), Des députés LREM favorables à une loi inspirée par l’ «ennemi N°1» de Poutine Le Figaro.
- ^ Maxime Vaudano (24 July 2019), CETA : qui a voté quoi parmi les députés Le Monde.
- ^ « Nous appelons à la libération des défenseurs des droits humains injustement détenus en Egypte » Le Monde, 31 January 2020.
- ^ "Il n'y aura pas de nouvelle élection législative à Valence". France Bleu (in French). 5 September 2017. Retrieved 29 July 2019.
- ^ Erwan Bruckert (7 October 2019), Immigration : l'aile gauche de LREM veut élargir le marché du travail pour les migrants Le Point.
- ^ Elisa Braun (31 August 2020), Macron’s glue-hunting ban threatens France’s powerful lobby Politico Europe.
- ^ 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) National Assembly.
- ^ Elisa Braun (24 November 2020), Controversial security bill puts pressure on French interior minister Politico Europe.