Raquel Garrido
Raquel Garrido in 2015
Member of the National Assembly
for Seine-Saint-Denis's 5th constituency
Assumed office
22 June 2022
Preceded byJean-Christophe Lagarde
Personal details
Born (1974-04-23) 23 April 1974
Valparaíso, Chile
Political partyLa France Insoumise
SpouseAlexis Corbière

Raquel Garrido (born 23 April 1974)[1] is a French politician. Representing La France Insoumise (LFI), she was elected to the National Assembly for Seine-Saint-Denis's 5th constituency in the 2022 French legislative election.

Biography

Garrido was born in Valparaíso, Chile. She was born seven months after Augusto Pinochet's right-wing coup d'état and her left-wing parents were interned. The family were exiled and lived in Toronto before settling in Marly-le-Roi in Yvelines, Île-de-France.[1]

Garrido became vice president of SOS Racisme when she was 22.[1] As a student activist in the Union nationale des étudiants de France – Indépendante et démocratique, she met Alexis Corbière, with whom she had three daughters.[2]

In 2008, amidst the backdrop of the world financial crisis, Garrido left the Socialist Party for Jean-Luc Mélenchon's new Left Party. She cited the financial crisis and the success of new leftist parties in Latin America as a reason to abandon the social democratic former party.[3] In the 2012 French legislative election, she stood in the Second constituency for French residents overseas (Latin America and the Caribbean), coming fourth with 8.6% of the vote.[4]

Garrido became spokesperson of Mélenchon's new La France Insoumise (LFI) in 2017 but left this role the same year due to questions of impartiality over her role as a political pundit on Les Terriens du dimanche ! on C8. She said that she would opt for the punditry, as the party's size would provide a replacement, while there were few left-wing commentators on television.[5] She and Corbière were also subject to scrutiny over continuing to live in public housing in the city of Paris while he represented a constituency in nearby Seine-Saint-Denis and their household income was over the limit; they were ordered to leave by the city council.[6]

In the 2022 French legislative election, Garrido ran for LFI within the New Ecological and Social People's Union (NUPES) in Seine-Saint-Denis's 5th constituency. She defeated 20-year incumbent Jean-Christophe Lagarde of the Union of Democrats and Independents by 53.5% to 46.5% in the run-off.[7]

In November 2023, Garrido was suspended by LFI for four months for allegedly spreading false information about its members.[8] She had criticised Mélenchon's leadership, and criticised her punishment as being exactly that given by the party to its former coordinator Adrien Quatennens for a domestic violence conviction.[9]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "VIDEO. Qui est Raquel Garrido, l'Insoumise par qui vient la polémique?" [VIDEO. Who is Raquel Garrido, the France Insoumise politician causing controversy?]. 20 minutes (in French). 4 October 2017. Retrieved 13 November 2023.
  2. ↑ Le Vaillant, Luc (19 December 2016). "Alexis Corbière, désir de rouge" [Alexis Corbière, red desire]. Libération (in French). Retrieved 13 November 2023.
  3. ↑ "France's Left Front hopes to 'reinvent' left". Al Jazeera. 30 April 2012. Retrieved 13 November 2023.
  4. ↑ Flamand, Alice (4 June 2012). "La France de l'étranger voit rose" [France abroad sees pink]. French Morning (in French). Retrieved 13 November 2023.
  5. ↑ ""Je tourne la page" : Raquel Garrido quitte La France insoumise et arrête la politique" ["I'm turning the page": Raquel Garrido leaves La France Insoumise and leaves politics] (in French). France Info. 12 November 2017. Retrieved 13 November 2023.
  6. ↑ "Alexis Corbière et Raquel Garrido occupent toujours le HLM parisien malgré les engagements à le quitter" [Alexis Corbière and Raquel Garrido still occupy their public housing in Paris despite demandes to leave] (in French). France Info. 11 October 2017. Retrieved 13 November 2023.
  7. ↑ Farge, Baptiste (19 June 2022). "Législatives: Raquel Garrido met fin à vingt ans de règne de Jean-Christophe Lagarde en Seine-Saint-Denis" [Legislative elections: Raquel Garrido puts an end to twenty years of the reign of Jean-Christophe Lagarde in Seine-Saint-Denis]. Libération (in French). Retrieved 13 November 2023.
  8. ↑ Loek, Aurélie (7 November 2023). "Raquel Garrido sanctionnée par LFI pour avoir nui "au bon fonctionnement collectif"" [Raquel Garrido sanctioned by LFI for having harmed "the collective workings"] (in French). TF1. Retrieved 13 November 2023.
  9. ↑ Cassini, Sandrine (8 November 2023). "Les sanctions prises contre Raquel Garrido ouvrent une nouvelle crise à La France insoumise" [Sanctions taken against Raquel Garrido open a new crisis in La France Insoumise]. Le Monde (in French). Retrieved 13 November 2023.
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