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DeutschRaquel Garrido
Raquel Garrido | |
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 Raquel Garrido in 2015 | |
| Member of the National Assembly for Seine-Saint-Denis's 5th constituency | |
| In office 22 June 2022 – 9 June 2024 | |
| Preceded by | Jean-Christophe Lagarde |
| Succeeded by | Aly Diouara |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 23 April 1974 Valparaíso, Chile |
| Political party | L'Après (2024–present) |
| Other political affiliations | Socialist Party (1993–2008) Left Party (2008–present) La France Insoumise (2016–2017, 2020–2024) |
| Spouse | Alexis Corbière |
Raquel Garrido (Spanish pronunciation: [raˈkel ɣaˈriðo]; born 23 April 1974)[1] is a French-Chilean politician. Representing La France Insoumise (LFI), she was elected to the National Assembly for Seine-Saint-Denis's 5th constituency in the 2022 French legislative election. Running as a dissident without the endorsement of the New Popular Front (NPF), she reached the second round of the 2024 French legislative election and then withdrew.
Biography
[edit]Early life
[edit]Garrido was born in Valparaíso, Chile. She was born seven months after Augusto Pinochet's right-wing coup d'état and her left-wing parents were interned. The family were exiled and lived in Toronto before settling in Marly-le-Roi in Yvelines, Île-de-France.[1]
Garrido became vice president of SOS Racisme when she was 22.[1] As a student activist in the Union nationale des étudiants de France – Indépendante et démocratique, she met Alexis Corbière, with whom she had three daughters.[2]
Early political career
[edit]In 2008, amidst the backdrop of the world financial crisis, Garrido left the Socialist Party for Jean-Luc Mélenchon's new Left Party. She cited the financial crisis and the success of new leftist parties in Latin America as a reason to abandon the social democratic former party.[3] In the 2012 French legislative election, she stood in the Second constituency for French residents overseas (Latin America and the Caribbean), coming fourth with 8.6% of the vote.[4]
Garrido became spokesperson of Mélenchon's new La France Insoumise (LFI) in 2017 but left this role the same year due to questions of impartiality over her role as a political pundit on Les Terriens du dimanche ! on C8. She said that she would opt for the punditry, as the party's size would provide a replacement, while there were few left-wing commentators on television.[5] She and Corbière were also subject to scrutiny over continuing to live in public housing in the city of Paris while he represented a constituency in nearby Seine-Saint-Denis and their household income was over the limit; they were ordered to leave by the city council.[6]
Member of the National Assembly
[edit]In the 2022 French legislative election, Garrido ran for LFI within the New Ecological and Social People's Union (NUPES) in Seine-Saint-Denis's 5th constituency. She defeated 20-year incumbent Jean-Christophe Lagarde of the Union of Democrats and Independents by 53.5% to 46.5% in the run-off.[7]
In November 2023, Garrido was suspended by LFI for four months for allegedly spreading false information about its members.[8] She had criticised Mélenchon's leadership, and criticised her punishment as being exactly that given by the party to its former coordinator Adrien Quatennens for a domestic violence conviction.[9]
In the 2024 French legislative election, Garrido was one of four LFI dissidents rejecting the New Popular Front (NFP) coalition who reached the second round; one of the others was her husband. She came third in the first round, with 23.7% of the vote, behind Aly Diouara of the miscellaneous left and NFP, and Jean-Christophe Lagarde's wife Aude (also UDI).[10] She withdrew from the race, allowing Diouara to win the run-off.[11] After the election, the dissidents from LFI established L'Après.[12]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "VIDEO. Qui est Raquel Garrido, l'Insoumise par qui vient la polémique?" [VIDEO. Who is Raquel Garrido, the France Insoumise politician causing controversy?]. 20 minutes (in French). 4 October 2017. Retrieved 13 November 2023.
- ^ Le Vaillant, Luc (19 December 2016). "Alexis Corbière, désir de rouge" [Alexis Corbière, red desire]. Libération (in French). Retrieved 13 November 2023.
- ^ "France's Left Front hopes to 'reinvent' left". Al Jazeera. 30 April 2012. Retrieved 13 November 2023.
- ^ Flamand, Alice (4 June 2012). "La France de l'étranger voit rose" [France abroad sees pink]. French Morning (in French). Retrieved 13 November 2023.
- ^ ""Je tourne la page" : Raquel Garrido quitte La France insoumise et arrête la politique" ["I'm turning the page": Raquel Garrido leaves La France Insoumise and leaves politics] (in French). France Info. 12 November 2017. Retrieved 13 November 2023.
- ^ "Alexis Corbière et Raquel Garrido occupent toujours le HLM parisien malgré les engagements à le quitter" [Alexis Corbière and Raquel Garrido still occupy their public housing in Paris despite demandes to leave] (in French). France Info. 11 October 2017. Retrieved 13 November 2023.
- ^ Farge, Baptiste (19 June 2022). "Législatives: Raquel Garrido met fin à vingt ans de règne de Jean-Christophe Lagarde en Seine-Saint-Denis" [Legislative elections: Raquel Garrido puts an end to twenty years of the reign of Jean-Christophe Lagarde in Seine-Saint-Denis]. Libération (in French). Retrieved 13 November 2023.
- ^ Loek, Aurélie (7 November 2023). "Raquel Garrido sanctionnée par LFI pour avoir nui "au bon fonctionnement collectif"" [Raquel Garrido sanctioned by LFI for having harmed "the collective workings"] (in French). TF1. Retrieved 13 November 2023.
- ^ Cassini, Sandrine (8 November 2023). "Les sanctions prises contre Raquel Garrido ouvrent une nouvelle crise à La France insoumise" [Sanctions taken against Raquel Garrido open a new crisis in La France Insoumise]. Le Monde (in French). Retrieved 13 November 2023.
- ^ Carriat, Julie (1 July 2024). "Législatives 2024 : à La France insoumise, les dissidents Corbière, Garrido, Simonnet et Davi se qualifient pour le second tour" [2024 legislative election: in La France Insoumise, dissidents Corbière, Garrido, Simonnet and Davi qualify for the second round]. Le Monde (in French). Retrieved 12 July 2024.
- ^ Coulet, Sarah (2 July 2024). "Législatives 2024 : ex-députée et candidate LFI dissidente en Seine-Saint-Denis, Raquel Garrido se retire" [2024 legislative election: ex-deputy and dissident LFI candidate in Seine-Saint-Denis, Raquel Garrido withdraws] (in French). Actu.fr. Retrieved 12 July 2024.
- ^ Giandomenico, Léa (12 July 2024). "C'est quoi L'Après, le mouvement lancé par les dissidents de La France insoumise ?" [What is L'Après, the movement launched by dissidents from La France Insoumise?] (in French). Actu.fr. Retrieved 15 July 2024.