Stéphane Buchou
Member of the National Assembly for Vendée's 3rd constituency
Assumed office
21 June 2017
Preceded byYannick Moreau
Personal details
Born (1974-03-14) 14 March 1974
Strasbourg, France
Political partyRenaissance
EducationUniversity of Nantes

Stéphane Buchou (French pronunciation: [stefan byʃu]; born 14 March 1974) is a French politician who has been serving as a member of the National Assembly since the 2017 election, representing the department of Vendée.[1] He is a member of Renaissance (RE).

Political career

In parliament, Buchou serves as member of the Committee on Sustainable Development and Spatial Planning. In addition, he is part of the French-Russian Parliamentary Friendship Group and the French delegation to the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU).[2] In 2020, Buchou joined En commun (EC), a group within LREM led by Barbara Pompili.[3]

Political positions

In May 2018, Buchou co-sponsored an initiative in favour 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.[4][5]

In July 2019, Buchou decided not to align with his parliamentary group's majority and became one of 52 LREM members who abstained from a vote on the French ratification of the European Union’s Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) with Canada.[6]

See also

References

  1. "Elections législatives 2017". Ministry of the Interior (in French). Retrieved 19 June 2017.
  2. Stéphane Buchou French National Assembly.
  3. Maël Thierry (22 May 2020), L’appel de 46 députés LREM : « Nous voulons peser de l’intérieur » L'Obs.
  4. Harriet Agnew (24 September 2019), France moves to extend IVF to gay and single women Financial Times.
  5. La PMA pour toutes, un acte d’égalité Libération, 29 May 2018.
  6. Maxime Vaudano (24 July 2019), CETA : qui a voté quoi parmi les députés Le Monde.


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