Naïma Moutchou

Naïma Moutchou (born 4 November 1980) is a French lawyer and politician of La République En Marche! (LREM) who has been serving as a member of the French National Assembly since the 2017 elections, representing the department of Val-d'Oise.[1]

Naïma Moutchou
Member of the National Assembly
for Val-d'Oise's 4th constituency
Assumed office
18 June 2017
Preceded byGérard Sebaoun (PS)
Personal details
Born (1980-11-04) 4 November 1980
Political partyLa République En Marche! (LREM)

Early life and education

Moutchou was born to Moroccan parents who arrived in France in 1961.[2]

From 2010, Moutchou practiced business and media law for nearly ten years. At the same time, she volunteered as a lawyer with International League against Racism and Anti-Semitism (LICRA).[3]

Political career

Since entering parliament, Moutchou has been serving on the Committee on Legal Affairs, where she was her parliamentary group's coordinator from 2017 until 2019.[4][5] In this capacity, she was the parliament's rapporteur on legislation combating fake news in November 2018.[6]

In addition to her committee assignments, Moutchou is a member of the French-Moroccan Parliamentary Friendship Group and the French-Serbian Parliamentary Friendship Group.[7] Moutchou is also one of six Assembly members who serve as judges of the Cour de Justice de la République.[8]

After Amélie de Montchalin's appointment to the government of Prime Minister Édouard Philippe in March 2019, Moutchou briefly served as first vice chair of the LREM parliamentary group under the leadership of chairman Gilles Le Gendre;[9] she was replaced by Marie Lebec in September 2019.

See also

References
  1. "Elections législatives 2017". Ministry of the Interior (in French). Retrieved 30 June 2017.
  2. Naïma Moutchou désignée comme n°2 du groupe des députés LREM Le Figaro, 30 April 2019.
  3. Naïma Moutchou désignée comme n°2 du groupe des députés LREM Le Figaro, 30 April 2019.
  4. Caroline Vigoureux and Jean-Jérôme Bertolus (13 September 2017), House of Cards: Les whips, ces députés LREM de l’ombre au rôle stratégique L'Opinion.
  5. Naïma Moutchou désignée comme n°2 du groupe des députés LREM Le Figaro, 30 April 2019.
  6. Naïma Moutchou désignée comme n°2 du groupe des députés LREM Le Figaro, 30 April 2019.
  7. Naïma Moutchou French National Assembly.
  8. Laetitia Saint-Paul French National Assembly.
  9. Naïma Moutchou désignée comme n°2 du groupe des députés LREM Le Figaro, 30 April 2019.
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