Sylvia Pinel


Sylvia Pinel is a French politician, member of the National Assembly of France, where she represents the 2nd constituency in the Tarn-et-Garonne department. Since 3 September 2016, she is the leader of the moderate and social-liberal center-left Radical Party of the Left. She was re-elected in that constituency at the 2017 Parliamentary Elections.

Family and Education

Pinel attended Michelet of Montauban, and received a DESS focusing on litigation and arbitration and a DEA in European law at Toulouse at the Toulouse 1 University Capitole, she studied her first year of law school at the university center of Montauban.
Her mother was Deputy Mayor of Fabas, worked with Senator-Mayor radical Pierre Tajan. Her father, Michel Pinel, who died in 2011, was an alderman in Gargas.

Election to National Assembly

In the second round election to the National Assembly in 2007, Sylvia Pinel was elected in the 2nd constituency of Tarn-et-Garonne. In the second round election to the National Assembly in 2012, she was re-elected in the same constituency by 30,445 votes to 20,417 for her opponent, Dulac; there were 50,862 valid votes cast out of 89,289 electors. In the second round election to the National Assembly in 2017, she was re-elected in the same constituency by 21,398 votes to 17,230 for her Front National opponent, Romain Lopez; there were 38,628 valid votes cast out of 93,329 electors.

Cabinet position