Stéphane Buchou
Member of the National Assembly for Vendée's 3rd constituency
Assumed office
21 June 2017
Preceded byYannick Moreau
Personal details
Born (1974-03-14) 14 March 1974
Strasbourg, France
Political partyRenaissance
EducationUniversity of Nantes

Stéphane Buchou (French pronunciation: [stefan byʃu]; born 14 March 1974) is a French politician who has been serving as a member of the National Assembly since the 2017 election, representing the department of Vendée.[1] He is a member of Renaissance (RE).

Political career

In parliament, Buchou serves as member of the Committee on Sustainable Development and Spatial Planning. In addition, he is part of the French-Russian Parliamentary Friendship Group and the French delegation to the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU).[2] In 2020, Buchou joined En commun (EC), a group within LREM led by Barbara Pompili.[3]

Political positions

In May 2018, Buchou co-sponsored an initiative in favour of a bioethics law extending to homosexual and single women free access to fertility treatments such as in vitro fertilisation (IVF) under France's national health insurance; it was one of the campaign promises of President Emmanuel Macron and marked the first major social reform of his five-year term.[4][5]

In July 2019, Buchou decided not to align with his parliamentary group's majority and became one of 52 LREM members who abstained from a vote on the French ratification of the European Union’s Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) with Canada.[6]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Elections législatives 2017". Ministry of the Interior (in French). Retrieved 19 June 2017.
  2. ↑ Stéphane Buchou French National Assembly.
  3. ↑ Maël Thierry (22 May 2020), L’appel de 46 députés LREM : « Nous voulons peser de l’intérieur » L'Obs.
  4. ↑ Harriet Agnew (24 September 2019), France moves to extend IVF to gay and single women Financial Times.
  5. ↑ La PMA pour toutes, un acte d’égalité Libération, 29 May 2018.
  6. ↑ Maxime Vaudano (24 July 2019), CETA : qui a voté quoi parmi les députés Le Monde.


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