Souad Zitouni

Zitouni was born in 1974 in Algeria, she was four years old when her family moved to France, to Marseille.[1]

Zitouni studied at the University of Aix-en-Provence,[2] where she obtained a master's degree in public law[1] and a specialized graduate diploma in local government management.[2] She continued her training in law school.[1] She practiced law from 2004 at the Avignon Carpentras bars.[3]

Zitouni began her political activism with Ecology Generation,[2] before joining the Democratic Movement.[1] In 2008, she was a candidate for her party in the 2008 municipal elections at Pontet, on the Ambition Le Pontet list led by Michel Bouyol: in sixth position, she was not elected.[4]

Ten years later, Zitouni joined La République en marche[2] and campaigned for Emmanuel Macron during the presidential election of 2017. She was a candidate in the legislative elections in Vaucluse's 1st constituency, as substitute candidate for Jean-François Cesarini.[2] They were elected, with 58% in the second round against a candidate from the National Front.[5] Cesarini died on March 29, 2020, and Zitouni automatically succeeded him the next day.[6]

In parliament, Zitouni joined the LREM group.[7] She serves on the Committee on Sustainable Development and Regional Planning.[8]

In 2020, Zitouni went against her parliamentary group's majority and abstained from an important vote on a much discussed security bill drafted by her colleagues Alice Thourot and Jean-Michel Fauvergue that helps, among other measures, curtail the filming of police forces.[9][10]