Hélène Laporte

Hélène Laporte (born 29 December 1978) is a French politician who was elected as a National Rally (part of the Identity and Democracy) group Member of the European Parliament (MEP) in the 2019 European parliamentary election.

Hélène Laporte

MEP
Member of the European Parliament
for France
Assumed office
2 July 2019[1][2]
Personal details
Born (1978-12-29) 29 December 1978
Villeneuve-sur-Lot, France
NationalityFrench
Political partyNational Rally
Children2
ProfessionPolitician

Early life and local political career

Hélène Laporte was born on 29 December 1978 in Villeneuve-sur-Lot, France.[3] Her mother Isabelle Laporte was elected as a National Front councillor on the Villeneuve municipal council in 2014.[4] Her maternal grandfather Jacques Laporte was a candidate for the National Front in the 1997 French legislative election.[5] She is a banking analyst for Crédit Agricole.[6][7]

Laporte joined the National Front in 2014.[8] In the 2015 French regional elections, she was elected as a councillor for the party in Lot-et-Garonne. Laporte contested the 2017 French legislative election in Lot-et-Garonne's 2nd constituency. Alexandre Freschi of the La République En Marche! party won the seat after the second round of voting.[5] National Front changed their name to National Rally in June 2018.[9]

European Parliament

Laporte stood as a candidate for National Rally in the 2019 European parliamentary election. She was second on her party's list, and was elected as one of its 22 MEPs in France.[lower-alpha 1][10][11] She is part of the Identity and Democracy group. In the European Parliament, Laporte is a member of the Committee on Budgets, and is part of the delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly.[3]

Personal life

Laporte is married, and has two children.[12][13]

Notes
  1. In the election, the party won 23 seats however Jean-Lin Lacapelle was elected in a reserve seat that he can only take if the United Kingdom leaves the European Union.

References
  1. "Key dates ahead". European Parliament. 20 May 2017. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
  2. "Key dates ahead". BBC News. 22 May 2017. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
  3. "Hélène Laporte". European Parliament. Retrieved 28 August 2019.
  4. Izambard, Antoine (4 April 2014). "Villeneuve-sur-Lot : le visage des premiers élus du Front national". Sud Ouest (in French). Retrieved 28 August 2019.
  5. "Qui est Hélène Laporte, la Villeneuvoise en 2e position sur la liste du RN aux européennes?". La Dépêche du Midi (in French). 14 January 2019. Retrieved 28 August 2019.
  6. "Déclaration d'intérêts financiers des députés" (PDF) (in French). European Parliament. 2 July 2019. p. 1. Retrieved 29 August 2019.
  7. "Européennes: le RN présente une partie de sa liste, misant sur le 'renouveau'". Le Point (in French). 12 January 2019. Retrieved 29 August 2019.
  8. "Élections européennes : voici les élus de Nouvelle-Aquitaine au Parlement européen" (in French). France Bleu. 27 May 2019. Retrieved 28 August 2019.
  9. "France's National Front renamed 'National Rally'". Reuters. 1 June 2018. Retrieved 28 August 2019.
  10. Cazenave, Fabien (27 May 2019). "Élections européennes. Qui sont les 79 eurodéputés élus en France ?". Ouest-France (in French). Retrieved 28 August 2019.
  11. "Marine Le Pen "fait plaisir à ses copains" sur la liste des Européennes" (in French). France Inter. 30 April 2019. Retrieved 28 August 2019.
  12. "Vos élus" (in French). Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Retrieved 29 August 2019.
  13. "La N° 2 de la liste RN à la rencontre des aveyronnais" (in French). La Dépêche du Midi. 8 April 2019. Retrieved 29 August 2019.


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