Hubert Julien-Laferrière


Hubert Julien-Laferrière is a French economist and politician. As member of La République En Marche!, he was elected to the National Assembly on 18 June 2017, representing the department of Rhône. Julien-Laferrière previously served twice as Mayor of the 9th arrondissement of Lyon, from 2003 to 2008 and from 2014 until 2017, as a member of the Socialist Party, which he left to run for Parliament as the REM nominee in the department's 2nd constituency. In May 2020 he left REM to join the new Ecology Democracy Solidarity group.

Political career

Having previously been affiliated with the Socialist Party, Julien-Laferrière joined LREM in 2017.
In parliament, Julien-Laferrière serves on the Committee on Foreign Affairs. In this capacity, he is the parliament’s rapporteur for the official development assistance budget.
In addition to his committee assignments, Julien-Laferrière is a member of the French delegation to the Inter-Parliamentary Union and the parliamentary friendship groups with Suriname, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda, among others.
In light of the 2019–20 French pension reform strike, Julien-Laferrière called for compromise between trade unions and the government. In March 2020, he left LREM after Prime Minister Edouard Philippe announced he would push through the bill by executive decree.
In May 2020, he was one of the 17 initial members of the new Ecology Democracy Solidarity group in the National Assembly. By June, he and five other ex-LREM deputies announced the establishment of #Nous Demain, a "humanist, ecologist and feminist" political movement.

Political positions

In July 2019, Julien-Laferrière voted in favor of the French ratification of the European Union’s Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement with Canada.