Margie Sudre | |
Office: | President of the Regional Council of Réunion |
Term Start: | 1993 |
Term End: | 1998 |
Predecessor: | Camille Sudre |
Successor: | Paul Vergès |
Office2: | Secretary of State for Francophonie |
Term Start2: | 1995 |
Term End2: | 1997 |
President2: | Jacques Chirac |
Primeminister2: | Alain Juppé |
Predecessor2: | Jacques Toubon |
Successor2: | Charles Josselin |
Birth Name: | Marguerite Demaiche |
Birth Date: | 17 October 1943 |
Birth Place: | Vinh, Vietnam |
Nationality: | French |
Party: | The Republicans |
Spouse: | Camille Sudre |
Profession: | Physician |
Margie Sudre (born 17 October 1943) is a Vietnamese-born Reunionese politician and Member of the European Parliament for France's "Outre-mer".
Before her election to the European Parliament (UMP-"les républicains"), she held several political mandates, both local and national: chairwoman of the Réunion Island regional Council (1993–1998, member since 1998), Secretary of State for the French-Speaking World (1995–1997). She worked to make French the second official language of the Atlanta Olympic Games.[1]
She is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement, which is part of the European People's Party, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Fisheries and its Committee on Regional Development.
She is a member of the delegation to the EU–Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee, a substitute for the delegation for relations with the countries of Southeast Asia and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, and, as Head of the French UMP MEP delegation, a member of the EPP-ED bureau.