Patricia Chagnon
Patricia Chagnon (born 20 November 1963) is a French politician from the National Rally. She has been a member of the European parliament from July 2022 to July 2024. Of Dutch origin, she has lived in France since the 1990s and speaks English and Dutch.[1] During the period when the channel is authorized, she regularly speaks on RT France.[2] President of the Abbeville Tourist Office, she was sentenced in 2018 to a fine of 10,000 euros, including 8,000 suspended, as well as two years of ineligibility, for moral harassment of her director.[3] She appealed and in 2021 the conviction was upheld but the ineligibility was canceled.[4] She has been an opposition municipal councilor for Abbeville and a community councilor for the Communauté d'agglomération de la Baie de Somme since 2014.[5][6] She was regional councillor for the Hauts-de-France region from 2015 to 2021.[7] Chagnon was a candidate in the 2019 European Parliament election in France. She was in 26th position on the list of the National Rally led by Jordan Bardella,[8] which obtains 23 elected.[9] She became a member of the European Parliament to replace her colleagues from the RN, elected members of parliament in 2022 French legislative election.[10] In the 2024 French legislative election, she was nominated by the RN to contest Saint Pierre and Miquelon's 1st constituency, despite not being from the territory.[11] She travelled across the Atlantic to the archipelago to campaign.[12] References
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