Aurore Bergé

Aurore Bergé (born 13 November 1986) is a French politician who has been serving as a member of the National Assembly since 2017, representing Yvelines's 10th constituency. She is considered a close ally of President Emmanuel Macron.[1]

Aurore Bergé
Member of the National Assembly
for Yvelines's 10th constituency
Assumed office
21 June 2017
Preceded byJean-Frédéric Poisson
Personal details
Born (1986-11-13) 13 November 1986
Paris, France
NationalityFrench
Political partyUnion for a Popular Movement (2002–2015)
The Republicans (2015–2017)
La République En Marche! (2017–present)
Alma materSciences Po

Career

A native of Paris, Bergé studied at Sciences Po. She became a member of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) in 2002;[2] when the party became The Republicans (LR) in 2015, she joined it. In the Republicans' primaries ahead of the 2017 presidential elections, she campaigned for Alain Juppé.[3]

Bergé joined La République En Marche! in 2017. She has also been a municipal councillor of Magny-les-Hameaux since the 2014 elections.[4] In parliament, Bergé serves as member of the Committee on Cultural Affairs and Education.[5]

From 2017 until 2019, Bergé served as one of her parliamentary group's spokespersons under the leadership of its successive chairmen Richard Ferrand and Gilles Le Gendre.[6] In 2020, she was a candidate to succeed Le Gendre as chair; however, she lost against Christophe Castaner.[7]

Political positions

In the 2012 Union for a Popular Movement leadership election, Bergé supported François Fillon as the party's leader.[8]

In September 2018, following the appointment of François de Rugy to the government, Bergé supported the candidacy of Richard Ferrand for the presidency of the National Assembly.[9]

In September 2019, Bergé led (with Guillaume Chiche) a group of LREM members who advocated for of 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.[10][11]

In October 2019, Bergé caused controversy when she announced her intention to vote for a Republican draft law written by Éric Ciotti and banning the wearing of the hijab by women accompanying groups of students on school outings; as a response, five other LREM members – Coralie Dubost, Cécile Rilhac, Jean-Michel Mis, Stéphane Trompille and Eric Bothorel – disassociated themselves from her.[12]

In August 2020, Bergé was one of the LREM members who endorsed an animal welfare referendum calling a for ban on some hunting practices that are deemed "cruel".[13]

In October 2020, Bergé was one of 48 LREM members who voted in support of a bill introduced by the Ecology Democracy Solidarity parliamentary group that would extend the legal deadline for abortion from 12 to 14 weeks; at the time of the vote, she took a public stand based on her own experience with abortion.[14]

See also

References
  1. Cédric Pietralunga and Alexandre Lemarié (20 October 2017), La République en marche: Les snipers de la Macronie Le Monde.
  2. Les 10 députés qui vont peser dans le quinquennat Le Journal du Dimanche, 1 August 2017.
  3. Les 10 députés qui vont peser dans le quinquennat Le Journal du Dimanche, 1 August 2017.
  4. "Elections législatives 2017". Ministry of the Interior (in French). Retrieved 19 June 2017.
  5. Aurore Bergé French National Assembly.
  6. Mathilde Siraud (14 January 2019), Le groupe LaREM à l'Assemblée muscle son équipe de porte-parole Le Figaro.
  7. Elisa Braun (10 September 2020), Ex-minister Castaner to lead Macron’s party in French parliament Politico Europe.
  8. Nolwenn Le Blevennec (18 November 2016), Aurore Bergé, 26 ans, la candidate UMP qui a tout pour plaire à la gauche Le Nouvel Observateur.
  9. Julie Cloris (9 September 2018), Duel Ferrand-Pompili pour présider l’Assemblée : qui soutient qui ? Le Parisien.
  10. Harriet Agnew (24 September 2019), France moves to extend IVF to gay and single women Financial Times.
  11. La PMA post-mortem rejetée par les députés L’Obs, 11 September 2019.
  12. Pierre Lepelletier (16 October 2019), #NotInMyName: des députés LREM se désolidarisent d’Aurore Bergé sur le voile Le Figaro.
  13. Elisa Braun (31 August 2020), Macron’s glue-hunting ban threatens France’s powerful lobby Politico Europe.
  14. Elisa Braun (9 October 2020), Former Macron allies ramp up pressure on green, social agenda Politico Europe.
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