Prisca Thevenot, spokeswoman for Renaissance (ex-La République en marche), won on Sunday in the 8th constituency of Hauts-de-Seine.
At 37 years old, Prisca Thevenot will thus join on the benches of the National Assembly Maud Bregeon, another spokeswoman for the presidential majority, also elected deputy for the first time on Sunday in the Hauts-de-Seine.
Invested in place of the outgoing LREM deputy Jacques Maire, she had no difficulty in winning in this traditionally right-wing constituency (Chaville, Marnes-la-Coquette, Meudon, Sèvres, Vaucresson and Ville-d’Avray).
A former consultant and entrepreneur
In 2017, Prisca Thevenot was a candidate in the constituency where Stains, the town of her childhood, in Seine-Saint-Denis. She had been beaten in the second round by the PCF politician Marie-George Buffet.
A former consultant and entrepreneur, this daughter of Mauritian immigrants has also been a regional councillor for Île-de-France since last year.
