Sébastien Chenu

Sébastien Chenu
Sébastien Chenu
Member of the National Assembly; for Nord's 19th constituency
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 21 June 2017
Preceded by	Anne-Lise Dufour-Tonini
Vice-President of the National Assembly
	In office; 29 June 2022 – 9 June 2024
Preceded by	Marc Le Fur
Succeeded by	Roland Lescure
Spokesman of the National Rally
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 21 September 2017 Serving with Julien Sanchez, Jordan Bardella (2017-2019) and Laurent Jacobelli (2019-present)
President	Marine Le Pen; Jordan Bardella
Member of the Regional Council of Hauts-de-France
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 4 January 2016
President	Xavier Bertrand
Personal details
Born	13 April 1973 (age 51); Beauvais, France
Political party	National Rally (since 2016)
Other political; affiliations	Republican Party (1988–1997); Liberal Democracy (1997–2002); UMP (2002–2014)
Domestic partner	Emmanuel Taché
Profession	Consultant

Sébastien Chenu (French pronunciation: [sebastjɛ̃ ʃəny]; born 13 April 1973) is a French Rassemblement National (RN) politician serving as the member of the National Assembly for the 19th constituency of Nord since 2017. A former member of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP), in 2017 he switched parties to sit under the leadership of Marine Le Pen.^[1] He served as vice-president of the French National Assembly from 2022 to 2024

Career

Openly homosexual, Chenu founded GayLib, then the LGBT wing of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP), today part of the Union of Democrats and Independents (UDI).^[2] He joined the National Front (FN) after the UMP attempted to kill Law 2013-404, which legalised same-sex marriage, claiming that the UMP had become "the French Tea Party".^[3]

Chenu was a vice president of the Communauté d'agglomération du Beauvaisis from 2001 to 2014, when he served as a deputy to Mayor Caroline Cayeux of Beauvais.

Since 2016, he has been a regional councillor of Hauts-de-France.

For the 2021 regional election, Chenu was chosen to lead the National Rally list in Hauts-de-France.

Chenu won re-election to the Assemblée nationale in the 2022 French legislative election. He served as 5th vice-president of the French National Assembly.

Chenu ran in the 2024 French legislative election winning his reelection at the first round.^[5] On 26 June 2024 he said his party was hostile to the inclusion of Ukraine in the European Union.^[6]

^ "Nord - 10e circonscription , resultats élections législatives 2017". Francetvinfo.fr. Retrieved 25 June 2017.
^ Charles Bremner (13 December 2014). "Le Pen gives National Front a gay friendly makeover". Thetimes.co.uk. Retrieved 25 June 2017.
^ "Sébastien Chenu, un ralliement précieux pour Marine Le Pen". Le Monde.fr. 13 December 2014. Retrieved 25 June 2017.
^ Bajos, Par Sandrine; Balle, Catherine; Bérard, Christophe; Berrod, Nicolas; Bureau, Éric; Choulet, Frédéric; Collet, Emeline; Souza, Pascale De; Doukhan, David (11 November 2023). "Marche contre l'antisémitisme : François Hollande, Marylise Léon, Agnès Jaoui... pourquoi ils s'engagent". leparisien.fr (in French). {{cite web}}: |last5= has generic name (help)
^ "Législatives : Sébastien Chenu élu au premier tour dans le Nord". lejdd.fr (in French). 30 June 2024. Retrieved 7 July 2024.
^ ""Nous sommes hostiles à l'arrivée de l'Ukraine dans l'UE" : Sébastien Chenu".