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Mathilde Panot (French pronunciation: [matild pano]; born 15 January 1989) is a French left-wing politician who has been President of the La France Insoumise group in the National Assembly since October 2021. She was elected to the National Assembly in the 2017 legislative election, where she represents the 10th constituency of the Val-de-Marne department.[1]

Panot was the coordinator for La France Insoumise (FI) support groups ahead of the 2017 presidential election.[2]

Positions

Mathilde Panot has taken strong stances for improving the democratic institutions of France, calling for a new Republic,[3] based on improved citizen participation and strengthening of the role of the Parliament.

Through the passing of the bill she put forward on November 24th 2022, Mathilde Panot was the first MP to initiate the enshrining of the right to abortion in the Constitution.[4] This political proposal was part of La France Insoumise programme since 2012.[5] The parliamentary group then led by Jean-Luc Mélenchon made a few unsuccessful attempts to introduce it onto the National Assembly agenda in 2018 and 2019. But after the shock caused by the Supreme Court overruling Roe v. Wade in the United-States of America , Mathilde Panot proposed it again on July 2022, forcing it onto the agenda through her group's niche parlementaire[6] (once every year each parliamentary group can decide of the session agenda). This parliamentary success was the first step of the process resulting in the modification of the Constitution on 8 March 2024.[7][8]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Val-de-Marne - 10e circonscription , resultats élections législatives 2017".
  2. ^ "Législatives 2017 : Mathilde Panot (FI), la seule élue insoumise, est la benjamine des députés du Val-de-Marne". 18 June 2017.
  3. ^ "Passer à la 6e République - Le Plan - La France insoumise" (in French). 2 May 2023. Retrieved 11 March 2024.
  4. ^ Boiteau, Victor; Thomas, Marlène. "Les députés votent la proposition LFI d'inscrire l'IVG dans la Constitution". Libération (in French). Retrieved 11 March 2024.
  5. ^ Discours de Jean-Luc Mélenchon à Bastille le 18 Mars 2012, retrieved 11 March 2024
  6. ^ Boiteau, Victor; Thomas, Marlène. "Les députés votent la proposition LFI d'inscrire l'IVG dans la Constitution". Libération (in French). Retrieved 11 March 2024.
  7. ^ "IVG dans la Constitution : du texte de LFI au « souhait » de Macron, un parcours de dix-huit mois au Parlement". Le Monde.fr (in French). 4 March 2024. Retrieved 11 March 2024.
  8. ^ "Top French far-left MP Mathilde Panot summoned by police over Hamas comments". France24.


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