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Perceval Gaillard
French politician From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Perceval Gaillard (born 24 April 1983) is a French politician from La France Insoumise. He was elected member of the National Assembly for Réunion's 7th constituency in the 2022 French legislative election.[1]
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Biography
He moved to Reunion Island at the age of 19, where he worked as a laborer, mason and handler at the port, unloading containers.[2] Elected on Huguette Bello's list in Saint-Paul for the 2020 municipal elections, he is the thirteenth deputy mayor in charge of city policy and the fight against illiteracy.[3][4] He is a member of the party Rézistan's Égalité 974, founded by Jean-Hugues Ratenon and close to La France insoumise.[5]
On 19 June 2022 he was elected deputy in the seventh constituency of Reunion Island under the label "Divers gauche".[6] He became the first "zorey" (metropolitan) deputy of the island since Michel Debré, deputy between 1963 and 1988.[2] He joined the group La France insoumise - Nouvelle Union populaire écologique et sociale (LFI-NUPES) in the National Assembly, alongside Jean-Hugues Ratenon.[7]
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