Sébastien Chenu Explained

Sébastien Chenu
Office:Member of the National Assembly
for Nord's 19th constituency
Term Start:21 June 2017
Predecessor:Anne-Lise Dufour-Tonini
Office2:Vice-President of the National Assembly
Term Start2:29 June 2022
Term End2:9 June 2024
Predecessor2:Marc Le Fur
Successor2:Roland Lescure
Office3:Spokesman of the National Rally
President3:Marine Le Pen
Jordan Bardella
Term Start3:21 September 2017
Office4:Member of the Regional Council of Hauts-de-France
President4:Xavier Bertrand
Term Start4:4 January 2016
Birth Date:13 April 1973
Birth Place:Beauvais, France
Party:National Rally (since 2016)
Partner:Emmanuel Taché
Profession:Consultant

Sébastien Chenu (pronounced as /fr/; born 13 April 1973) is a French Rassemblement National (RN) politician serving as the member of the National Assembly for the 19th constituency of Nord since 2017. A former member of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP), in 2017 he switched parties to sit under the leadership of Marine Le Pen.[1] He served as vice-president of the French National Assembly from 2022 to 2024

Career

Openly homosexual, Chenu founded GayLib, then the LGBT wing of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP), today part of the Union of Democrats and Independents (UDI).[2] He joined the National Front (FN) after the UMP attempted to kill Law 2013-404, which legalised same-sex marriage, claiming that the UMP had become "the French Tea Party".[3]

Chenu was a vice president of the Communauté d'agglomération du Beauvaisis from 2001 to 2014, when he served as a deputy to Mayor Caroline Cayeux of Beauvais.

Since 2016, he has been a regional councillor of Hauts-de-France.

Member of the Assemblée nationale (2017-present)

In the 2017 legislative election, he was elected to the National Assembly in the 19th constituency of Nord.

For the 2021 regional election, Chenu was chosen to lead the National Rally list in Hauts-de-France.

Chenu won re-election to the Assemblée nationale in the 2022 French legislative election. He served as 5th vice-president of the French National Assembly.

On 12 November 2023, he took part in the March for the Republic and Against Antisemitism in Paris in response to the rise of anti-Semitism in France since the start of the Israel–Hamas war.[4]

Chenu ran in the 2024 French legislative election winning his reelection at the first round.[5] On 26 June 2024 he said his party was hostile to the inclusion of Ukraine in the European Union.[6]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Nord - 10e circonscription, resultats élections législatives 2017 . Francetvinfo.fr . 2017-06-25.
  2. News: Charles Bremner . Le Pen gives National Front a gay friendly makeover . Thetimes.co.uk . 2014-12-13 . 2017-06-25.
  3. News: Sébastien Chenu, un ralliement précieux pour Marine Le Pen . Le Monde.fr . 2014-12-13 . 2017-06-25.
  4. Web site: Bajos . Par Sandrine . Balle . Catherine . Bérard . Christophe . Berrod . Nicolas . Bureau . Éric . Choulet . Frédéric . Collet . Emeline . Souza . Pascale De . Doukhan . David . 2023-11-11 . Marche contre l'antisémitisme : François Hollande, Marylise Léon, Agnès Jaoui... pourquoi ils s'engagent . leparisien.fr . fr-FR.
  5. Web site: 2024-06-30 . Législatives : Sébastien Chenu élu au premier tour dans le Nord . 2024-07-07 . lejdd.fr . fr.
  6. News: "Nous sommes hostiles à l'arrivée de l'Ukraine dans l'UE" : Sébastien Chenu .