Sébastien Chenu

Sébastien Chenu (French pronunciation: [sebastjɛ̃ ʃəny]; 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

Sébastien Chenu
Member of the National Assembly for Nord's 19th constituency
Incumbent
Assumed office 21 June 2017
Preceded by	Anne-Lise Dufour-Tonini
Vice-President of the National Assembly
In office 29 June 2022 – 9 June 2024
Preceded by	Marc Le Fur
Succeeded by	Roland Lescure
Spokesman of the National Rally
Incumbent
Assumed office 21 September 2017 Serving with Julien Sanchez, Jordan Bardella (2017-2019) and Laurent Jacobelli (2019-present)
President	Marine Le Pen Jordan Bardella
Member of the Regional Council of Hauts-de-France
Incumbent
Assumed office 4 January 2016
President	Xavier Bertrand
Personal details
Born	(1973-04-13) 13 April 1973 (age 52) Beauvais, France
Political party	National Rally (since 2016)
Other political affiliations	Republican Party (1988–1997) Liberal Democracy (1997–2002) UMP (2002–2014)
Domestic partner	Emmanuel Taché
Profession	Consultant

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 Gaza 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]

On April 4, 2025, Chenu publicly criticized the Rule of Law in response to Rally's leader Le Pen denial to run for France's presidential office. She was found guilty of embezzling EU Parliamentary funds to cover the salaries of national party staffers.^[7]