Alma Dufour
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Alma Dufour | |
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 Alma Dufour in 2022. | |
| Member of the National Assembly for Seine-Maritime's 4th constituency | |
| Assumed office 22 June 2022 | |
| Preceded by | Sira Sylla |
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| Born | 6 May 1990 Auch, Gers, France |
| Political party | La France Insoumise NUPES |
| Alma mater | Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University AgroParisTech |
Alma Dufour (French pronunciation: [alma dyfuʁ]; born 6 May 1990) is a French politician from La France Insoumise who has been has been Member of Parliament for Seine-Maritime's 4th constituency since 2022.[1]
Biography[edit]
Youth and early career[edit]
She was born on May 6, 1990 in Auch, Gers, France. She grew up in the 20th arrondissement of Paris, where her parents lived in low-income housing.[2]
In 2012, she graduated with a law degree from Paris-Panthéon-Sorbonne University, which she completed with a master's degree in geopolitics, then in environmental sciences at AgroParisTech until 2015. She earns her living as an employee of Suez, then as a waitress, while working for the European Environmental Bureau (EEB) in Brussels on the circular economy (Negotiation of the Waste Framework Directive).[3]
Environmental commitments[edit]
In 2015, during COP21 in Paris, she joined the Alternatiba/Action non-violente COP21 movement. She was then hired by Friends of the Earth France, and went on to become spokesperson for this NGO from 2017 to January 2021.[1] From late 2018, Alma Dufour took part in the Yellow Vests movement, during which she was the victim of police violence.[4]
Alongside this activism, Alma Dufour also carries out institutional lobbying. Under her impetus, Friends of the Earth supported local struggles against a dozen Amazon mega-warehouse projects in France, including the Petit-Couronne project in Seine-Maritime. It is taking part in actions to block Amazon sites and occupy the land of future projects between 2019 and 2022 until the multinational abandons 5 of these warehouse projects. She also highlights the study by economists Ano Kuhanathan and Florence Mouradian, which argues that e-commerce multinationals are responsible for the destruction of 82,000 jobs in France.[5]
Following her experience in the fight against Amazon, Alma Dufour decided to specialize in the interaction between ecology and employment. She combats the idea that ecology could be a cause of job destruction, and also fights against the relocation of activities.[6][2] She is an active member of the Plus Jamais ça! collective, which brings together Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, ATTAC and trade unions: CGT, Confédération paysanne, Solidaires, FSU.[7]
Member of Parliament[edit]
In January 2021, she decided to leave her position as campaign manager and spokesperson for Les Amis de la Terre to join La France Insoumise and support Jean-Luc Mélenchon's presidential campaign.[1]
In May 2022, she was nominated as candidate for the Nouvelle Union populaire écologique et sociale (the NUPES), in the fourth constituency of Seine-Maritime, and was elected deputy.[8] She becomes a member of the National Assembly's Finance Committee.[9]
Within LFI, she is in charge of the "agit-prop" pole from December 2022.[10]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c "Mme Alma Dufour - Seine-Maritime (4e circonscription) - Assemblée nationale". www2.assemblee-nationale.fr. Retrieved 2022-09-07.
- ^ a b "Alma Dufour, franchir le pont". Libération (in French). Retrieved 2023-08-22.
- ^ "Alma Dufour, écologiste « populaire et industrielle » | L'Humanité". www.humanite.fr (in French). 2022-12-26. Retrieved 2023-08-22.
- ^ "L'activiste Alma Dufour se frotte aux urnes | L'Humanité". www.humanite.fr (in French). 2022-05-24. Retrieved 2023-08-22.
- ^ "Emploi : l'e-commerce au banc des accusés". Le Monde.fr (in French). 2020-12-04. Retrieved 2023-08-22.
- ^ ""L'idée" de l'écologie politique, "c'est de parler de propositions concrètes et de donner envie aux Français", estime une responsable d'association". Franceinfo (in French). 2021-09-20. Retrieved 2023-08-22.
- ^ "Économie sociale et solidaire. La Coop des masques, « une histoire inspirante» | L'Humanité". www.humanite.fr (in French). 2021-07-01. Retrieved 2023-08-22.
- ^ "Législatives dans la 4e circonscription de la Seine-Maritime : Alma Dufour (NUPES) est élue députée". actu.fr (in French). 2022-06-19. Retrieved 2023-08-22.
- ^ nationale, Assemblée. "Composition - Commission des finances". Assemblée nationale (in French). Retrieved 2023-08-22.
- ^ "Alma Dufour, écologiste « populaire et industrielle » | L'Humanité". www.humanite.fr (in French). 2022-12-26. Retrieved 2023-08-22.
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