Caroline Colombier | |
Office: | Member of the National Assembly for Charente's 3rd constituency |
Term Start: | 22 June 2022 |
Predecessor: | Jérôme Lambert |
Office1: | Member of the Regional Council of Nouvelle-Aquitaine |
Term Start1: | 1 July 2021 |
Birth Date: | 22 September 1957 |
Birth Place: | Autun, France |
Nationality: | French |
Party: | National Rally |
Occupation: | Lawyer, politician |
Caroline Colombier (in French pronounced as /kaʁɔlin kɔlɔ̃bje/; born 22 August 1957) is a French lawyer and politician who has represented the 3rd constituency of the Charente department in the National Assembly since 2022. A member of the National Rally (RN), she has also been a regional councillor of Nouvelle-Aquitaine since 2021.
Colombier grew up in Saône-et-Loire. Her father was author, politician and journalist Jean Bourdier, a founding member of the National Front (later National Rally) in 1972.[1] [2] She is the sister-in-law of politician Jacques Colombier. Her husband is originally from Charente-Maritime.
Colombier, a lawyer by occupation, is a member of the bar of Paris.[3] She first joined the youth wing of the National Front, the Front National de la Jeunesse (now known as Génération Nation), in 1974.[3]
She has been a member of the Regional Council of Nouvelle-Aquitaine since 2021. She won a seat in the National Assembly in the 2022 legislative election, which she contested in the 3rd constituency of Charente. Colombier won with a majority of 193 second-round votes and 50.2% of the vote. She succeeded Jérôme Lambert in Parliament, who lost his miscellaneous left reelection bid after failing to reach the second round.