Virginie Bruant | |
Office7: | Minister of Labour, Family, Solidarity, and the Status of Women |
President7: | Édouard Fritch |
Term Start7: | 21 February 2022 |
Term End7: | 15 May 2023 |
Predecessor7: | Isabelle Sachet |
Successor7: | Vannina Crolas (Labour) Chantal Galenon (Solidairity) |
Constituency Am10: | Windward Isles 1 |
Assembly10: | French Polynesian |
Term Start10: | 5 May 2013 |
Term End10: | 30 April 2023 |
Birth Date: | [1] |
Party: | Tahoera'a Huiraatira Tapura Huiraatira |
Virginie Bruant (born 1979) is a French Polynesian politician and former Cabinet Minister. She is a member of the Tapura Huiraatira.
Bruant is the French Polynesian representative of the Société des auteurs, compositeurs et éditeurs de musique (SACEM).[2]
She was first elected to the Assembly of French Polynesia in the 2013 French Polynesian legislative election as a representative of the Tahoera'a Huiraatira,[1] and elected chair of the budget and financial control committee.[3] In March 2015 she was one of a group of 14 Tahoera'a MPs who demanding an accounting of the use of the parliamentary group's funds.[4] Shortly afterwards, in May 2015, she became a founding member of Tapura Huiraatira.[5] She was re-elected to the Assembly in the 2018 election[6] and elected chair of the health, solidarity and labour committee.[7]
In February 2022 she was appointed to Cabinet as Minister of Labour, Solidarity, Training, Status of Women, Family and Non-autonomous Persons.[8] [9]