| Grégoire de Fournas | |
| Office: | Member of the National Assembly for Gironde's 5th constituency |
| Term Start: | 22 June 2022 |
| Term End: | 9 June 2024 |
| Predecessor: | Benoît Simian |
| Successor: | Pascale Got |
| Birth Date: | 19 March 1985 |
| Birth Name: | Grégoire de Fournas de Brosse |
| Birth Place: | Lesparre-Médoc, France |
| Party: | National Rally (2011–present) |
| Occupation: | Winegrower, politician |
Grégoire de Fournas de Brosse (pronounced as /fr/; born 19 March 1985) is a politican who represented the National Assembly Party in the National Assembly from 2022 to 2024. A member of the National Rally (RN), he has been a municipal councillor of Pauillac since 2020. De Fournas also held a seat in the Departmental Council of Gironde for the canton of Le Nord-Médoc from 2015 to 2021.
Grégoire de Fournas holds Brevet de technicien supérieur qualifications in agricultural studies, viticulture and oenology. His family runs the Château Vieux Cassan vineyard in Saint-Germain-d'Esteuil of which he became the director in 2010.[1]
He was elected a departmental councillor of Gironde in the canton of Le Nord-Médoc in 2015. He campaigned against the construction of a nearby windfarm. In 2020, he was elected a municipal councillor of Pauillac.
In the 2022 legislative election, he was elected in the 5th constituency of Gironde unseating La République En Marche! (LREM) representative Benoît Simian.[2] A profile in Libération described De Fournas as a "staunch defender of hunting, fiercely opposed to wind turbines, the installations of which he virulently combats."
On 3 November 2022, during the government question period in the National Assembly, De Fournas interrupted fellow representative Carlos Martens Bilongo's remarks on the situation of migrants on the SOS Méditerranée ship Ocean Viking, shouting "Qu'il retourne en Afrique!" which can be translated either to "He just has to go back to Africa then!" or "It just has to go back to Africa then!"
De Fournas's outburst was deemed racist by other MPs, though it was unclear whether he was referring to Bilongo or the ship.[3] [4] [5] De Fournas rejected the racism accusation, saying he was referring to the ship. National Assembly President Yaël Braun-Pivet suspended the meeting following the remarks. De Fournas later received a 15-day ban from the National Assembly and had his pay docked.[6]