Aurore Bergé


Aurore Bergé is a French politician who has been serving as a member of the National Assembly since 2017, representing Yvelines's 10th constituency. She is considered a close ally of President Emmanuel Macron.

Career

A native of Paris, Bergé studied at Sciences Po. She became a member of the Union for a Popular Movement in 2002; when the party became The Republicans in 2015, she joined it. In the Republicans' primaries ahead of the 2017 presidential elections, she campaigned for Alain Juppé.
Bergé joined La République En Marche! in 2017. She has also been a municipal councillor of Magny-les-Hameaux since the 2014 elections. In parliament, Bergé serves as member of the Committee on Cultural Affairs and Education.
From 2017 until 2019, Bergé served as one of her parliamentary group's spokespersons under the leadership of its successive chairmen Richard Ferrand and Gilles Le Gendre.

Political positions

In the 2012 Union for a Popular Movement leadership election, Bergé supported François Fillon as the party's leader.
In September 2018, following the appointment of François de Rugy to the government, Bergé supported the candidacy of Richard Ferrand for the presidency of the National Assembly.
In September 2019, Bergé led a group of LREM members who advocated for of a bioethics law extending to homosexual and single women free access to fertility treatments such as in vitro fertilisation under France's national health insurance; it was one of the campaign promises of President Emmanuel Macron and marked the first major social reform of his five-year term.
In October 2019, Bergé caused controversy when she announced her intention to vote for a Republican draft law written by Éric Ciotti and banning the wearing of the hijab by women accompanying groups of students on school outings; as a response, five other LREM members – Coralie Dubost, Cécile Rilhac, Jean-Michel Mis, Stéphane Trompille and Eric Bothorel – disassociated themselves from her.