Clémentine Autain

Clémentine Autain born 26 May 1973 is a French politician and journalist who has represented the 11th constituency of the SeineSaintDenis department in the National Assembly since 2017 She is a member of La France Insoumise LFI Autain is the daughter of singer Yvan Dautin and actress Dominique Laffin A feminist activist she is coeditor of the monthly publication Regards with Roger Martelli and cosecretary of the Fondation Copernic a circle of reflection critical of liberalism In 2001 Autain was elected to the Council of Paris for the 17th arrondissement with the support of the French Communist Party where she served one term As a councillor she developed the Conseils de la jeunesse de Paris Youth Councils of Paris From 2001 to 2008 she held the title of Deputy Mayor of Paris under Bertrand Delanoë tasked with youth affairs She was a member of the executive council of the Organisme dhabitations à loyer modéré and Offices publics daménagement et de construction organisations responsible for the management of lowcost housing in Paris In 2014 she was elected to the municipal council of Sevran where she served again one term Autain has served as the Member of Parliament MP for the 11th constituency of SeineSaintDenis since 2017 as a member of La France Insoumise She currently holds a position in the Bureau of the National Assembly of the 15th legislature of the French Fifth Republic as a secretary She has also served as a regional councillor of ÎledeFrance since 2021 previously holding a seat in the regional council from 2015 until her resignation in 2017 to focus on her work as an MP Autain was born in SaintCloud the daughter of actress Dominique Laffin and singer Yvan Dautin Her paternal uncle François Autain was a French senator and member of Parti de gauche Left Party for LoireAtlantique as well as former Deputy Mayor of Bougue and former Secretary of State for Immigration Defense and social security during the presidency of François Mitterrand Her grandfather André Laffin a veteran of the Indochina Wars was briefly elected as a rightwing candidate as a member of UNR in the department of Yonne Her mother committed suicide in 1985 when Autain was twelve She has a son and a daughter born in 2008 and 2010 As of 2022 she has written 15 books including a novel Assemblées Autain studied history at university earning a masters degree in history maîtrise with a specialisation in colonial Algeria and a masters degree Diplôme détudes approfondies DEA examining the Mouvement de libération des femmes MLF In 2001 the French Communist Party asked her to run at the top of the ballot in the 17th arrondissement of Paris against Françoise de Panafieu which she described as a big bourgeois woman with appalling class contempt Winning with 35 of the vote the new Mayor of Paris Bertrand Delanoë named her assistant in charge of youth As a representative of the Paris municipality in 2001 she attended the Universités dété euroméditerranéennes des homosexualités where she worried about possible discrimination towards militant bisexuals in the associations within the homosexual world a biphobia Source Article Clémentine Autain from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30