Coralie Dubost

Coralie Dubost (born 4 March 1983) is a French lawyer[1] and politician of La République En Marche! (LREM) who was elected to the French National Assembly on 18 June 2017, representing the department of Hérault.[2]

Coralie Dubost
Member of the National Assembly for Hérault's 3rd constituency
Assumed office
21 June 2017
Preceded byFanny Dombre-Coste
Personal details
Born (1983-03-04) 4 March 1983
Montpellier, France
NationalityFrench
Political partyLa République En Marche!
Alma materUniversity of Montpellier
ProfessionJurist

Political career

Ahead of the 2017 elections, Dubost built the local chapter of La République En Marche! in Montpellier, growing a membership of 5,400 within ten months.[3]

Since entering parliament, Dubost has been one of the four deputy chairpersons of the LREM parliamentary group under the leadership of successive chairmen Richard Ferrand (2017-2018) and Gilles Le Gendre (since 2018).[4] She serves as member of the Committee on Legal Affairs.[5] In addition to her committee assignments, she is a member of the French-Chinese Parliamentary Friendship Group.

In September 2020, Dubost was a candidate to succeed Le Gendre as her parliamentary group's chair; however, she came in fourth. In the final round of the vote, she endorsed Christophe Castaner.[6]

Political positions

Foreign policy

In July 2019, Dubost voted in favor of the French ratification of the European Union’s Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) with Canada.[7]

Domestic policy

In 2019, Dubost steered through parliament 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.[8]

Along with four other LREM members – Cécile Rilhac, Jean-Michel Mis, Stéphane Trompille, and Eric Bothorel –, Dubost disassociated herself from their colleague Aurore Bergé when the latter announced her intention in October 2019 to vote for a Republican draft law banning the wearing of the hijab by women accompanying groups of students on school outings.[9]

In 2020, Dubost was one of the LREM members who endorsed an animal welfare referendum calling for a ban on some hunting practices deemed “cruel.”[10]

Other activities

  • France China Foundation, Member of the Steering Committtee[11]

Personal life

Dubost is in a relationship with fellow politician Olivier Véran.[12]

References

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