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Patricia Chagnon

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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
Born20 November 1963

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.

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]

References

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  1. ^ Mattijs van de Wiel (7 May 2017). "Nederlandse woordvoerster Front National: Macron zal falen". NOS (in Dutch).
  2. ^ Célia Mascre (14 February 2017). "Qui est Patricia Chagnon, élue FN à Abbeville et coqueluche de Russia Today ?". France 3 Hauts-de-France (in French).
  3. ^ Mickaël Guiho (5 July 2018). "Abbeville : Patricia Chagnon (RN) condamnée pour harcèlement moral". France 3 Hauts-de-France (in French).
  4. ^ "La chef de file du RN dans la Somme condamnée pour harcèlement". Le Courrier picard (in French). 11 January 2021.
  5. ^ "Résultats des élections municipales et communautaires 2014 - SOMME (80) - Abbeville". Ministère de l'Intérieur. Retrieved 25 June 2022.
  6. ^ "Résultats des élections municipales et communautaires 2020 - Somme (80) - Abbeville". Ministère de l'Intérieur. Retrieved 25 June 2022.
  7. ^ "Résultats des élections régionales 2015 - Conseil Régional de la région : Nord-Pas-de-Calais - Picardie". Ministère de l'Intérieur. Retrieved 12 August 2022.
  8. ^ "Élections européennes 2019 - PRENEZ LE POUVOIR, LISTE SOUTENUE PAR MARINE LE PEN". Ministère de l'Intérieur. Retrieved 26 June 2022.
  9. ^ "Résultats des élections européennes 2019". Ministère de l'Intérieur. Retrieved 26 June 2022.
  10. ^ Fabien Cazenave (20 June 2022). "Législatives. Quatre eurodéputés élus à l'Assemblée nationale vont quitter le Parlement européen". Ouest-France (in French).
  11. ^ Philippe Sans (2024-06-12). "Élections législatives : Trois candidats déjà annoncés sur Saint-Pierre et Miquelon, dont le RN". Saint-Pierre et Miquelon la 1ère (in French). Retrieved 2024-06-15.
  12. ^ "Législatives 2024 : Un comité d'accueil anti-RN pour la candidate Patricia Chagnon à l'aéroport de Saint-Pierre". Saint-Pierre et Miquelon la 1ère (in French). 2024-06-14. Retrieved 2024-06-15.