Patricia Chagnon

Patricia Chagnon (born 20 November 1963) is a French politician from the National Rally. She has been a member of the European parliament from July 2022 to July 2024.

Patricia Chagnon
Member of the European Parliament
In office 29 July 2022 – 15 July 2024
regional councillor for the Hauts-de-France region
In office 2015–2021
Personal details
Born	20 November 1963

Of Dutch origin, she has lived in France since the 1990s and speaks English and Dutch.^[1] During the period when the channel is authorized, she regularly speaks on RT France.^[2]

President of the Abbeville Tourist Office, she was sentenced in 2018 to a fine of 10,000 euros, including 8,000 suspended, as well as two years of ineligibility, for moral harassment of her director.^[3] She appealed and in 2021 the conviction was upheld but the ineligibility was canceled.^[4]

She has been an opposition municipal councilor for Abbeville and a community councilor for the Communauté d'agglomération de la Baie de Somme since 2014.^[5][6]

She was regional councillor for the Hauts-de-France region from 2015 to 2021.^[7]

Chagnon was a candidate in the 2019 European Parliament election in France. She was in 26th position on the list of the National Rally led by Jordan Bardella,^[8] which obtains 23 elected.^[9] She became a member of the European Parliament to replace her colleagues from the RN, elected members of parliament in 2022 French legislative election.^[10]

In the 2024 French legislative election, she was nominated by the RN to contest Saint Pierre and Miquelon's 1st constituency, despite not being from the territory.^[11] She travelled across the Atlantic to the archipelago to campaign.^[12]