Hugues Renson

Renson graduated from Sciences Po in 2001 and was the social affairs councillor to President Jacques Chirac (2004–2007).

In the 2012 presidential elections, Renson publicly endorsed the Socialist Party's candidate François Hollande.[1] Similarly, he voted for Socialist candidate Anne Hidalgo, a family friend, in the 2014 Paris municipal election.[2]

Renson later joined La République En Marche![3] and was elected to the National Assembly during the legislative election of 2017, as the member for Paris's 13th constituency, defeating incumbent Jean-François Lamour of The Republicans party.[4] He took office on 21 June, and was elected a week later as one six vice presidents of the National Assembly, a rare event for a one-term member. He also serves on the Committee on Foreign Affairs. In addition to his committee assignments, he is a member of the French-Greek Parliamentary Friendship Group and the French-Lebanese Parliamentary Friendship Group.[5]

In late 2018, Renson, Aurélien Taché and Matthieu Orphelin convened a group of around 20 members of the LREM parliamentary group with a "wish to express a humanist, social and ecological sensibility and to better raise citizens' concerns"; the initiative was widely interpreted as the launch of a left-wing faction within the group.[6] In 2020, he joined forces with Barbara Pompili as co-founder of En Commun, a group of center-left LREM politicians.[7]

Ahead of the 2020 Paris municipal election, Renson failed to win his party's nomination as candidate unseat Hidalgo; he subsequently endorsed Cédric Villani.[8]

In May 2018, Renson co-sponsored an initiative in favour of legalizing assisted reproductive technology (ART) for all women (singles, heterosexual couples or lesbian couples).[9]

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

Also in 2020, Renson went against his parliamentary group's majority and abstained from an important vote on a much discussed security bill drafted by his colleagues Alice Thourot and Jean-Michel Fauvergue that helps, among other measures, curtail the filming of police forces.[11][12]