Yannick Favennec Explained

Yannick Favennec Becot
Office:Member of the National Assembly
for Mayenne's 3rd constituency
Term Start:19 June 2002
Predecessor:Roger Lestas
Birth Date:12 August 1958
Birth Place:Chaudron-en-Mauges, France
Nationality:French
Party:Horizons (since 2022)
Otherparty:UMP (until 2012)
UDI (2012–2022)

Yannick Favennec Becot (born 12 August 1958) is a French politician of the Horizons party, within the Ensemble Citoyens coalition supporting incumbent President Emmanuel Macron, who has been serving as a member of the National Assembly since the 2002 elections, representing the Mayenne department.[1]

Political career

In parliament, Maine-et-Loire, Favennec Becot served on the Committee on Economic Affairs (2002–2012) and the Committee on Sustainable Development and Regional Planning (2012–2017) before moving to the Defence Committee in 2017.[2] From 2017 to 2022, he was also a quaestor and therefore part of the Assembly's Bureau in the 15th legislature of the French Fifth Republic, under the leadership of president Richard Ferrand. In addition to his committee assignments, Favennec Becot is part of the French Parliamentary Friendship Group with the United Arab Emirates.[3]

Ahed of the 2022 French legislative election, Favennec Becot joined Horizons, a centre-right party within Emmanuel Macron's centrist Ensemble Citoyens coalition.[4] He was elected in the first round.[5]

Political positions

Ahead of the Republicans' 2016 primaries, Favennec Becot publicly endorsed Alain Juppé as the centre-right parties' candidate for the 2017 French presidential election.

In July 2019, Favennec Becot voted against the French ratification of the European Union's Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) with Canada.[6]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: LISTE DÉFINITIVE DES DÉPUTÉS ÉLUS À L'ISSUE DES DEUX TOURS. 2010-07-03. fr. National Assembly of France.
  2. http://www2.assemblee-nationale.fr/deputes/fiche/OMC_PA267042 Yannick Favennec Becot
  3. http://www2.assemblee-nationale.fr/deputes/fiche/OMC_PA267042 Yannick Favennec Becot
  4. Web site: 2022-05-17 . Législatives en Mayenne : l'ancien Premier ministre Édouard Philippe soutiendra Yannick Favennec le 3 juin . 2022-06-13 . ici, par France Bleu et France 3 . fr.
  5. Web site: Résultats Législatives 2022 : Yannick Favennec réélu en Mayenne, "j'ai une conception œcuménique de mon territoire" . 2022-06-13 . France 3 Pays de la Loire . fr-FR.
  6. Maxime Vaudano (24 July 2019), CETA : qui a voté quoi parmi les députés Le Monde.