Hugues Renson

Hugues Renson (born 11 February 1978) is a French politician of La République En Marche! (LREM) who has been serving as Vice President of the National Assembly of France since 28 June 2017.

Hugues Renson
Vice President of the National Assembly
Assumed office
28 June 2017
Preceded byDavid Habib
Member of the National Assembly
for Paris's 13th constituency
Assumed office
21 June 2017
Preceded byJean-François Lamour
Personal details
Born (1978-02-11) 11 February 1978
Paris, France
NationalityFrench
Political partyLa République En Marche!
Alma materSciences Po

Education and early career

Renson graduated from Sciences Po in 2001 and was the social affairs councillor to President Jacques Chirac (2004–2007).

Political career

In the 2012 presidential elections, Renson publicly endorsed the Socialist Party's candidate François Hollande.[1] Similarly, he voted for Socialist candidate Anne Hidalgo, a family friend, in the 2014 Paris municipal election.[2]

Renson later joined La République En Marche![3] and was elected to the National Assembly during the legislative election of 2017, as the member for Paris's 13th constituency, defeating incumbent Jean-François Lamour of The Republicans party.[4] He took office on 21 June, and was elected a week later as one six vice presidents of the National Assembly, a rare event for a one-term member. He also serves on the Committee on Foreign Affairs. In addition to his committee assignments, he is a member of the French-Greek Parliamentary Friendship Group and the French-Lebanese Parliamentary Friendship Group.[5]

In late 2018, Renson, Aurélien Taché and Matthieu Orphelin convened a group of around 20 members of the LREM parliamentary group with a "wish to express a humanist, social and ecological sensibility and to better raise citizens' concerns"; the initiative was widely interpreted as the launch of a left-wing faction within the group.[6] In 2020, he joined forces with Barbara Pompili as co-founder of En Commun, a group of center-left LREM politicians.[7]

Ahead of the 2020 Paris municipal election, Renson failed to win his party's nomination as candidate unseat Hidalgo; he subsequently endorsed Cédric Villani.[8]

Political positions

In May 2018, Renson co-sponsored an initiative in favour of legalizing assisted reproductive technology (ART) for all women (singles, heterosexual couples or lesbian couples).[9]

In July 2019, Renson voted in favor of the French ratification of the European Union’s Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) with Canada.[10]

Also in 2020, Renson went against his parliamentary group's majority and abstained from an important vote on a much discussed security bill drafted by his colleagues Alice Thourot and Jean-Michel Fauvergue that helps, among other measures, curtail the filming of police forces.[11][12]

References
  1. Nathalie Segaunes (16 November 2016), Hugues Renson, de Chirac à Macron, en passant par Hollande... L'Opinion.
  2. Caroline Vigoureux (19 July 2019), Anne Hidalgo et Hugues Renson, Paris pour pari L'Opinion.
  3. Jérôme, Béatrice (11 May 2017). "Renson, chiraquien d'En marche !, face à Lamour, chiraquien de LR". Le Monde. Retrieved 24 June 2017.
  4. "Elections législatives 2017". Ministry of the Interior (in French). Retrieved 19 June 2017.
  5. Hugues Renson French National Assembly.
  6. Mathilde Siraud (20 December 2018), Des députés LaREM s'organisent pour peser Le Figaro.
  7. Tristan Quinault-Maupoil (3 September 2020), Hugues Renson: «J’en appelle à la constitution d’une maison commune» Le Figaro.
  8. Denis Cosnard (10 July 2019), Elections municipales à Paris : Benjamin Griveaux choisi pour représenter LRM Le Monde.
  9. La PMA pour toutes, un acte d’égalité Libération, 29 May 2018.
  10. Maxime Vaudano (24 July 2019), CETA : qui a voté quoi parmi les députés Le Monde.
  11. 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.
  12. Jules Darmanin (27 November 2020), French government plan to rewrite security bill has MPs up in arms Politico Europe.
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