{{short description| French Communist Party politician (born 1965)}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Cathy Apourceau-Poly | image = Cathyapourceaupoly.jpg | caption = Cathy Apourceau-Poly | office = Senator for Pas-de-Calais | president = | prime_minister = | term_start = 1 July 2018 | term_end = | predecessor = | successor = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1965|04|18|df=y}} | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | party = French Communist Party | alma_mater = | occupation = Territorial attaché }}
'''Cathy Apourceau-Poly''' (born 18 April 1965) is a French Communist Party politician and a member of the Senate of France since July 2018.
==Biography== Apourceau-Poly was elected to the Regional Council of Nord-Pas-de-Calais in 2004<ref>{{cite web |language=fr|url=https://www.interieur.gouv.fr/Elections/Les-resultats/Regionales/elecresult__regionales_2004/(path)/regionales_2004/031/C2031L021.html |title=Résultats des élections régionales - Nord-Pas-de-Calais - 2004|website=interieur.gouv.fr}}</ref> and re-elected in 2010.<ref>{{cite web |language=fr|url=https://www.interieur.gouv.fr/Elections/Les-resultats/Regionales/elecresult__regionales_2010/(path)/regionales_2010/031/C2031L012.html |title=Résultats des élections régionales - Nord-Pas-de-Calais - 2010|website=interieur.gouv.fr}}</ref>
She was a member of the municipal council of Avion, Pas-de-Calais, where she administered the Communal Center for Social Action.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cathyapourceaupoly.fr/senatrice/|title = L'Humain d'Abord ! Au coeur de la République}}</ref>
She became a senator on 1 July 2018, after {{ill|Dominique Watrin|fr}}'s resignation.<ref>{{cite news|language=fr|author=Julia Hamlaoui|title=Cathy Apourceau-Poly, une nouvelle " sénatrice militante "|newspaper=L'Humanité|date=June 22, 2018|url=https://www.humanite.fr/cathy-apourceau-poly-une-nouvelle-senatrice-militante-657216|access-date=July 2, 2018}}</ref> She enlisted in the Communist, Republican, Citizen and Ecologist group and was a member of the Commission for Social Affairs.
She stood as the 54th candidate on Ian Brossat's list in the 2019 European Parliament election.<ref>{{cite web|language=fr|url=https://www.europedesgens.fr/vos_candidats|title=Vos candidats|website=europedesgens.fr|access-date=2019-10-19|archive-date=2019-05-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190520075653/https://www.europedesgens.fr/vos_candidats|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.lavoixdunord.fr/585710/article/2019-05-20/brexit-migrants-les-positions-des-candidats-communistes-aux-elections|title=Calais Brexit, migrants, les positions des candidats communistes aux élections européennes|date=May 20, 2019|newspaper=La Voix du Nord|access-date=June 12, 2019}}</ref>
==References== {{Portal|Communism|France}} {{reflist}}
==External links== *[https://www.senat.fr/senateur/apourceau_poly_cathy19760e.html Cathy Apourceau-Poly], French Senate official website *[https://www.nossenateurs.fr/cathy-apourceau-poly Cathy Apourceau-Poly], ''NosSénateurs.fr'' {{in lang|fr}}
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