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Yaël Braun-Pivet
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Braun-Pivet in 2023
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| President of the National Assembly | |
| Assumed office 28 June 2022 |
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| Preceded by | Richard Ferrand |
| Minister of Overseas Territories | |
| In office 20 May 2022 – 25 June 2022 |
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| President | Emmanuel Macron |
| Prime Minister | Élisabeth Borne |
| Preceded by | Sébastien Lecornu |
| Succeeded by | Élisabeth Borne (Acting) |
| Member of the National Assembly for Yvelines's 5th constituency |
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| In office 21 June 2017 – 9 June 2024 |
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| Preceded by | Jacques Myard |
| Majority | 10,557 (29.24%) |
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| Born |
Yaël Braun
7 December 1970 Nancy, France |
| Political party | Renaissance (2016–present) |
| Other political affiliations |
Socialist Party (2000s) |
| Spouse |
Vianney Pivet
(m. 2014) |
| Children | 5 |
| Alma mater | Paris Nanterre University |
| Profession | Lawyer |
Yaël Braun-Pivet (French pronunciation: [jaɛl bʁon pivɛ]; born 7 December 1970) is a French lawyer and politician who was President of the French National Assembly from 28 June 2022 to 9 June 2024. She is the first woman to have held this position. A member of Renaissance (RE), she was previously Minister of Overseas Territories under Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne from May to June in 2022. She has been a member of the French National Assembly since 2017, representing the department of Yvelines.
Background
Braun-Pivet was born Yaël Braun in Nancy in Eastern France. Her paternal grandparents were Jewish and had settled in France in the 1930s in order to escape antisemitism. Her grandfather was a Polish tailor while her grandmother was German. After World War II her grandfather received the French Resistance Medal. Braun-Pivet's mother had grown up in care.
Braun-Pivet attended a Jewish school in Strasbourg and went on to study law at Paris Nanterre University. After practising as a criminal lawyer for several years, she followed her husband, an executive with L'Oréal, to Taiwan and Japan, where the two youngest of their five children were born. On their return to France in 2012, Braun-Pivet took up voluntary work with Restaurants du Cœur (a French charity which distributes food to those in need), where she organised free legal advice for people who could not afford access to justice.
Political career
Braun-Pivet, representing Emmanuel Macron's Renaissance Party, was elected as a member of the French National Assembly for the 5th constituency of Yvelines in June 2017. That same month she was elected chair of the Law Committee. She led the work of the committee on a 2017 law regulating conflict of interest among elected officials, which had been initiated as a consequence of the Fillon affair. In 2018, when she was chair of the inquiry into the Benalla Affair, she was criticised for her refusal to summon Alexis Kohler, general secretary of the president's office, to give evidence. In September 2018, after François de Rugy's appointment to the government, Braun-Pivet announced her candidacy for the presidency of the National Assembly; she eventually withdrew and instead endorsed Richard Ferrand.
In February 2021, Braun-Pivet received the support of the entire National Assembly after being targeted by an email with anti-Semitic insults and threats; shortly after, the Paris prosecutor's office opened an investigation. Braun-Pivet was appointed Minister of Overseas Territories in May 2022 but stepped down a month later when she was elected President of the National Assembly, the first woman to hold the position. On 4 March 2024, Braun-Pivet became the first woman to preside over a joint session of the Assembly and Senate, overseeing the historic vote to inscribe the "freedom of women to voluntarily terminate a pregnancy" in the French constitution. On 9 June 2024, Macron dissolved the French Parliament and announced a snap election following defeat of his party in the European elections. Braun-Pivet was doubtful about Macron's decision, suggesting that he could have considered forming a coalition instead.
Political positions
In July 2019, Braun-Pivet voted in favor of the French ratification of the European Union's Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) with Canada.
In 2021, Braun-Pivet proposed a new ad-hoc body to better supervise the government's decision-making process on the COVID-19 pandemic in France.
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See also
- 2017 French legislative election
- 2022 French legislative election
- 2024 French legislative election
