Sacha Houlié

Sacha Houlié (born 8 October 1988) is a French lawyer[1] 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 Vienne.[2]

Sacha Houlié
Member of the National Assembly for Vienne's 2nd constituency
Assumed office
21 June 2017
Preceded byCatherine Coutelle
Personal details
Born (1988-10-08) 8 October 1988
Bressuire, France
NationalityFrench
Political partyLa République En Marche!
Alma materUniversity of Poitiers
Panthéon-Assas University
ProfessionLawyer

Political career

Having previously been active for the Socialist Party, Houlié joined LREM in 2015.[3] Together with three friends, including Pierre Person, he founded "Jeunes avec Macron" (Young People for Macron) in June 2015.[4]

In parliament, Houlié serves as member of the Committee on Legal Affairs.[5] In this capacity, he was his parliamentary group's rapporteur on 2019 legislation to strengthen the powers of elected municipal officials, particularly in small municipalities.[6] From 2017 until 2018, he was also one of the National Assembly's six vice-presidents, under the leadership of president François de Rugy.[7] Within his parliamentary group, he is considered a close ally of President Emmanuel Macron.[8]

In mid-2019, French farmers vandalized Houlié's office in Poitiers, in an effort to protest against his support for the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) between Canada and the European Union.[9]

Other activities

Political positions

Houlié is considered an advocate of an open and "inclusive" secularism. In early 2018, he was one of several LREM member who joined an informal parliamentary working group on Islam set up by Florent Boudié in order to contribute to the government's bill aimed at better organising and supervising the financing of the Muslim faith in France.[12]

In May 2018, Houlié co-sponsored an initiative in favour of legalizing assisted reproductive technology (ART) for all women (singles, heterosexual couples or lesbian couples).[13]

Amid efforts to contain the COVID-19 pandemic in France, Houlié opposed the government's propopsal for a state-supported “StopCovid” contact-tracing app project, arguing it could amount to "undemocratic state surveillance."[14] Also in 2020, he 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.[15][16]

See also

References
  1. Julia Amalia Heyer (16 April 2018), En Marche One Year On: How Macron's Movement Is Transforming French Politics Der Spiegel.
  2. "Elections législatives 2017". Ministry of the Interior (in French). Retrieved 19 June 2017.
  3. Aurélie Delmas (24 June 2017), La galaxie Macron sur les bancs de l’Assemblée Libération, 9 September 2019.
  4. Julia Amalia Heyer (16 April 2018), En Marche One Year On: How Macron's Movement Is Transforming French Politics Der Spiegel.
  5. Sacha Houlié French National Assembly.
  6. Laurent Thévenin (26 November 2019), L'Assemblée donne son feu vert à la loi sur les maires Les Echos.
  7. Vincent Hulin (21 December 2017), Sacha Houlié va démissionner de la vice-présidence de l' Assemblée Nationale France Bleu.
  8. Cédric Pietralunga and Alexandre Lemarié (20 October 2017), La République en marche: Les snipers de la Macronie Le Monde.
  9. Sudip Kar-Gupta (8 August 2019), French farmers damage more offices of Macron MPs over trade deals Reuters.
  10. Sacha Houlié French National Assembly.
  11. Les membres du conseil d'administration de l'ENA École nationale d'administration (ENA).
  12. Alexandre Lemarié (23 November 2018), Des députés La République en marche s’attellent au sujet de l’islam de France Le Monde.
  13. La PMA pour toutes, un acte d’égalité Libération, 29 May 2018.
  14. Mathieu Rosemain (17 April 2020), French friction over government's COVID-tracing app project Reuters.
  15. Analyse du scrutin n° 3254, deuxième séance du 24/11/2020: Scrutin public sur l'ensemble de la proposition de loi relative à la sécurité globale (première lecture) National Assembly.
  16. Elisa Braun (24 November 2020), Controversial security bill puts pressure on French interior minister Politico Europe.
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