Typhanie Degois
Degois in 2021
Member of the National Assembly
for Savoie's 1st constituency
In office
21 June 2017 – 21 June 2022
Preceded byDominique Dord
Succeeded byMarina Ferrari
Personal details
Born (1993-01-06) 6 January 1993
Fourmies, France
Political partyLa République En Marche! (2016–present)
Other political
affiliations		Union of Democrats and Independents (2013–2014)
Alma materPanthéon-Assas University
OccupationJurist

Typhanie Degois (born 6 January 1993) is a French politician who represented the 1st constituency of the Savoie department in the National Assembly from 2017 until 2022.[1] She is a member of La République En Marche! (LREM).

Early life and education

Degois was born in Northern France and moved to Savoie at the age of 7.[2] She graduated from Pantheon-Assas University with a master's degree in international business law.[3]

Degois is a member of the Fondation Brigitte Bardot, an animal rights group.[4]

Political career

Degois joined the centre-right Union of Democrats and Independents in 2013 but left after a year.

Degois joined En Marche! the day after it was founded and established a chapter of the movement in Aix-les-Bains.[5] In the 2017 legislative election she was elected to Parliament with 50.76% of the vote in Savoie's 1st constituency, narrowly defeating Dominique Dord of The Republicans who had held the seat for the previous 20 years.[6] At age 24, she was the youngest member of the National Assembly of La République En Marche! as well as the second youngest overall after Ludovic Pajot of the National Front.[7]

In Parliament, Degois served as member of the Committee on Economic Affairs and the Committee on European Affairs.[8] In addition to her committee assignments, she was a member of the French parliamentary friendship groups with Monaco, the Central African Republic and Azerbaijan.

As a parliamentarian, she grew increasingly critical of the La République En Marche group in the National Assembly, voting against key bills supported by a majority of her fellow party members. In May 2022, she announced she would not seek reelection in the upcoming legislative election.[9]

On the occasion of the presidential election of 2022, she brings her sponsorship of deputy to Marine Le Pen.

Political positions

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

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Elections législatives 2017". Ministry of the Interior (in French). Retrieved 19 June 2017.
  2. ↑ "Typhanie Degois, 24 ans, plus jeune candidate investie par En Marche". 23 May 2017. Retrieved 27 June 2017.
  3. ↑ French election: Macron team complete rout with Assembly win, BBC News, 19 June 2017.
  4. ↑ "Typhanie Degois (SAvoie) La benjamine amie des animaux". Retrieved 27 June 2017.
  5. ↑ "Typhanie Degois, 24 ans, plus jeune candidate investie par En Marche". 23 May 2017. Retrieved 27 June 2017.
  6. ↑ "Législatives : à seulement 24 ans, la jeune macroniste Typhanie Degois devient la benjamine de la majorité". 19 June 2017. Retrieved 27 June 2017.
  7. ↑ BFMTV. "Nés en 1993, ils sont les deux benjamins de l'Assemblée". BFMTV. Retrieved 27 June 2017.
  8. ↑ Typhanie Degois French National Assembly.
  9. ↑ "Sans surprise, la députée sortante Typhanie Degois jette l'éponge", hebdo-des-savoie.com (in French), 18 May 2022.
  10. ↑ Maxime Vaudano (24 July 2019), CETA : qui a voté quoi parmi les députés, Le Monde.
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