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Sophie Mette | |
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Member of the National Assembly for Gironde's 9th constituency | |
Assumed office 18 June 2007 | |
Preceded by | Gilles Savary |
Personal details | |
Born | Montauban,France | 13 September 1959
Political party | MoDem (since 2007) |
Sophie Mette (13 September 1959) is a French politician of the Democratic Movement (MoDem) who has been a member of the National Assembly since 18 June 2017,representing the department of Gironde. [1]
Having moved to Bazas commune in 1987,Mette was elected as a councilor for the commune in 2001 with the Miscellaneous right. [2] [3]
Mette competed in the 2007 French parliamentary election with the Union for French Democracy. [4] For the 2008 municipal elections,she left the right and joined the left,where she would remain as a re-elected as councilor until 2014. [5] In the 2010 regional elections,she joined MoDem,and then joined the En Marche!-MoDem coalition in 2017. [4]
Mette currently holds a position in the Bureau of the Nation Assembly as a secretary,under the leadership of its President Richard Ferrand. She is also a member of the Committee on Cultural Affairs and Education. [6]
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