Office: | Member of the National Assembly for Bas-Rhin's 5th constituency |
Term Start: | 22 June 2022 |
Predecessor: | Antoine Herth |
Birth Date: | 3 December 1988 |
Birth Place: | Sélestat, Bas-Rhin, France |
Nationality: | French |
Party: | Agir |
Otherparty: | Renaissance |
Occupation: | Politician |
Alma Mater: | University of Strasbourg, Sciences Po |
Charles Sitzenstuhl (born 3 December 1988) is a French politician of Agir who has been member of the National Assembly for Bas-Rhin's 5th constituency since 2022.[1]
From May 2017 to September 2021, Sitzenstuhl worked as political advisor to French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire. In 2018, he was part of the French delegation negotiating a roadmap for the future of the eurozone with Germany’s Minister of Finance Olaf Scholz.[2]
In 2020, Sitzenstuhl published La golf blanche, an autobiographic novel about a child experiencing domestic violence.[3] [4]
Sitzenstuhl became a member of the National Assembly in 2022; at the time, he was – alongside Louis Margueritte and Charles Rodwell – one of three former staff members of Bruno Le Maire who moved from the Ministry of Economics and Finance to parliament.[5]
In parliament, Sitzenstuhl has since been serving on the Finance Committee.[6] In 2022, he was – alongside Daniel Labaronne and Matthieu Lefèvre – part of a parliamentary taskforce asked by Le Maire to identify ways to reduce the national budget.[7]
In addition to his committee assignments, Sitzenstuhl is part of the French delegation to the Franco-German Parliamentary Assembly.[8]
In 2023, Sitzenstuhl resigned as one of the Renaissance group’s spokespeople.[9]