Agnès Marion Explained

Agnès Marion
Office:Regional Councillor of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Term Start:1 January 2016
Term End:27 June 2021
Party:National Rally (1997–2021, 2024–present)
Otherparty:Reconquête (2021–2024)
Birth Date: df=yes 7 June 1977
Birth Place:Sallanches, France

Agnès Marion (born 7 June 1977) is a French politician of the National Rally. She was a member of the Regional Council of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes from 2016 to 2021,[1] and a member of the municipal council of Lyon from 2014 to 2020.[2]

Career

Marion was born in Sallanches and grew up in Avignon.[3] She went to university in Lyon, where she obtained a master's degree in classical and modern literature, and joined the National Front Youth as a student in 1997.[3] In 2007, she was asked by Bruno Gollnisch to run in the French legislative election,[4] and contested Rhône's 10th constituency.[3] She was a candidate for the same constituency in the 2012 legislative election.[5] She was elected municipal councillor of Lyon in the 2014 municipal elections,[6] and regional councillor of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes in the 2015 regional elections.[3] In the 2017 legislative election, she was a candidate for Rhône's 10th constituency,[7] and in the 2020 municipal elections, she was a candidate for mayor of Lyon.[6]

In 2021, Marion switched to Reconquête.[8] She was the party's candidate in Rhône's 10th constituency in the 2022 legislative election,[9] and its seventh-place candidate in the 2024 European Parliament election.[8] In June 2024 she returned to the National Rally, and was its candidate for Val-d'Oise's 9th constituency in the 2024 legislative election.[2]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Agnès Marion. Lyon Mag. fr.
  2. Web site: Législatives dans le Val-d'Oise : la discrète campagne d'Agnès Marion (RN) dans la 9e circonscription. Le Parisien. 24 June 2024. fr.
  3. Web site: Élections à Lyon : qui est Agnès Marion ? (RN). Lyon Capitale. 11 March 2020. fr.
  4. Web site: Agnès Marion, Front national : candidate antisystème. Famille chrétienne. 29 May 2017. fr.
  5. Web site: Législatives 2012 Rhône : 10e circonscription. Rue89. 7 June 2012. fr.
  6. Web site: Agnès Marion (RN) : «Candidate pour l'amour de Lyon, au service des Lyonnais ». Le Progrès. 4 November 2019. fr.
  7. Web site: Agnès Marion, l'adroite à droite du FN. Mediacités. 30 May 2017. fr.
  8. Web site: Européennes : la serial candidate Agnès Marion en position éligible chez Reconquête. Le Progrès. 2 May 2024. fr.
  9. Web site: Agnès Marion (Reconquête) : "nous espérons faire des résultats honorables". Lyon Capitale. 9 June 2022. fr.