Valérie Oppelt (born 10 December 1973) is a French politician of La République En Marche! (LREM) who was elected to the French National Assembly on 18 June 2017, representing the department of Loire-Atlantique.[1][2]

Valérie Oppelt
Member of the National Assembly
for Loire-Atlantique's 2nd constituency
In office
21 June 2017 – 21 June 2022
Preceded byMarie-Françoise Clergeau
Succeeded byAndy Kerbrat
Personal details
Born (1973-12-10) 10 December 1973 (age 50)
Nantes, France
Political partyLa République En Marche!
Alma materUniversity of Burgundy

In parliament, Oppelt served on the Economic Affairs Committee from 2017 until 2019, where she was her parliamentary group's coordinator.[3] From 2019 until 2020, she was a member of the Committee on Legal Affairs. She later joined the Committee on Social Affairs in 2020.[4]

Early in the term, Oppelt and Olivia Grégoire launched an informal group of around 50 LREM members in support of strengthening entrepreneurship.[5] In July 2019, she decided not to align with her 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]

She lost her seat in the second round of the 2022 French legislative election to Andy Kerbrat from La France Insoumise.

References edit

  1. ^ "Valérie Oppelt, cette cheffe d'entreprise nantaise en marche vers les législatives". 20minutes.fr. 9 May 2017. Retrieved 19 June 2017.
  2. ^ "Valérie OPPELT - Dirigeant de la société Ennoia - BFMBusiness.com". Dirigeants.bfmtv.com. Retrieved 19 June 2017.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ Valérie Oppelt French National Assembly.
  5. ^ Jean-Jérôme Bertolus (October 19, 2017), Génération spontanée: Entreprise, CETA, Grand Paris... Les groupes informels de députés En Marche se multiplient L'Opinion.
  6. ^ Maxime Vaudano (July 24, 2019), CETA : qui a voté quoi parmi les députés Le Monde.