{{short description|French politician (born 1975)}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = | name = Corinne Narassiguin | honorific_suffix = | image = Vote solennel loi mariage 23042013 01.jpg | caption = Corinne Narassiguin in the galleries of the National Assembly at the 2013 solemn vote of the law opening marriage to same-sex couples | office = Senator for Seine-Saint-Denis | term_start = 2 October 2023 | office1 = Member of the National Assembly<br>for the 1st constituency for French residents overseas | majority1 = | term_start1 = 20 June 2012 | term_end1 = 15 February 2013 | predecessor1 = ''Constituency created'' | successor1 = Frédéric Lefebvre | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1975|03|07|df=yes}} | birth_place = Le Port, Réunion | death_date = | death_place = | spouse = | party = Socialist Party {{nobr|(2000–present)}} | relations = | children = | alma_mater = Télécom SudParis | occupation = Engineer | profession = | signature = | website = | footnotes = }}
'''Corinne Narassiguin''' (born 7 March 1975) is a French politician who has served as a Senator for Seine-Saint-Denis since 2 October 2023. A member of the Socialist Party (PS), she previously represented the 1st constituency for French residents overseas (United States and Canada) in the National Assembly from 2012 to 2013.
Narassiguin was elected to the National Assembly in the 2012 legislative election with the support of Europe Ecology – The Greens (EELV).<ref>{{cite news|title=Elections legislatives francaises au Canada: vers le chaos a Montreal|language=French|newspaper=The America's Intelligence Wire|date=May 9, 2012}}</ref><ref>[http://www.france-amerique.com/articles/2011/04/16/legislatives_amerique_du_nord_le_ps_a_choisi_sa_candidate_face_a_christine_lagarde.html "Législatives Amérique du Nord : le PS a choisi sa candidate"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120316043443/http://www.france-amerique.com/articles/2011/04/16/legislatives_amerique_du_nord_le_ps_a_choisi_sa_candidate_face_a_christine_lagarde.html |date=2012-03-16 }}, ''France Amerique'', April 16, 2011</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=France, Canada at odds over 'extraterritorial' election|last=Kuitenbrouwer|first=Peter|newspaper=Vancouver Sun|date=January 28, 2012|url=http://www2.canada.com/vancouversun/news/archives/story.html?id=5bfa2ec8-954d-4553-adba-1a0e580c2aa6|accessdate=May 9, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006170717/http://www2.canada.com/vancouversun/news/archives/story.html?id=5bfa2ec8-954d-4553-adba-1a0e580c2aa6|archive-date=October 6, 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref> Her election was however nullified in early 2013 and she was forced to vacate her seat when the Constitutional Council ruled the election had been held improperly. She was barred from running for reelection. In the 2023 Senate election, she returned to a parliamentary role after she successfully led the PS–EELV list in Seine-Saint-Denis.
==Personal life== Corinne Narassiguin was born in Saint Paul, in the French overseas department of Réunion,<ref name="jrdm1">{{cite web|language=French|title=Corinne Narassiguin, candidate socialiste à l'élection législative 2012 (Amérique du Nord)|publisher=Le journal réunionnais du monde|date=May 2011|url=http://www.reunionnaisdumonde.com/spip.php?article3910|accessdate=May 9, 2012}}</ref> into a family of left-leaning teachers.<ref>{{cite web|language=French|title=Corinne Narassiguin: une socialiste chez les banquiers|publisher=French Morning|last=Saint-Martin|first=Emmanuel|date=January 17, 2012|url=http://frenchmorning.com/ny/2012/01/17/corinne-narassiguin-une-socialiste-chez-les-banquiers/|accessdate=May 9, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120423123152/http://frenchmorning.com/ny/2012/01/17/corinne-narassiguin-une-socialiste-chez-les-banquiers/|archive-date=April 23, 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref> She graduated from Telecom & Management SudParis and earned a Master's degree in telecommunications from University College London.<ref name="jrdm2">{{cite web|language=French|title=Corinne Narassiguin, spécialiste de la gestion du risque technologique New-York|publisher=Le journal réunionnais du monde|date=May 2011|url=http://www.reunionnaisdumonde.com/spip.php?article3966|accessdate=May 9, 2012}}</ref> She has been a resident in the United States since 1999.<ref>{{cite web|language=French|title=Corine Narassiguin rencontre des Français de Toronto|publisher=Le Metropolitain|last=Lopoukhine|first=Raphael|date=May 2, 2012|url=http://www.lemetropolitain.com/nouvelles.asp?nID=16457|accessdate=May 9, 2012}}{{Dead link|date=July 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> She said her interest in politics grew during the 2000 US Elections.{{Citation needed|date=May 2012}} Before her election Corinne worked for a major US bank.<ref>{{cite news|title=French Cross Oceans for a Vote|last1=Colchester|first1=Max|last2=Schechner|first2=Sam|newspaper=Wall Street Journal|date=March 23, 2012|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702304724404577299912672522188?KEYWORDS=Corinne+Narassiguin|accessdate=May 9, 2012}}</ref>
==Political life== Narassiguin joined the New York City branch of the Socialist Party and was its secretary from 2003 until 2009.<ref>{{cite web|language=French|title=Parti socialiste : les voix des militants d'Amérique|publisher=France Amérique|url=http://www.france-amerique.com/articles/2008/11/19/parti-socialiste-les-voix-des-militants-d-amerique.html|date=November 19, 2008|accessdate=May 10, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120114083710/http://www.france-amerique.com/articles/2008/11/19/parti-socialiste-les-voix-des-militants-d-amerique.html|archive-date=January 14, 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref> In 2005 she was elected to the regional executive committee where she handled international affairs after co-authoring a paper about modernising the life of the party.<ref>{{cite web|language=French|title=Tabous et langue de bois : pour une libéralisation du langage au Parti Socialiste|publisher=Parti Socialiste|url=http://newyork.parti-socialiste.fr/2005/08/13/tabous-et-langue-de-bois-pour-une-liberalisation-du-langage-au-parti-socialiste|access-date=2012-05-11|archive-date=2016-12-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161219025435/http://newyork.parti-socialiste.fr/2005/08/13/tabous-et-langue-de-bois-pour-une-liberalisation-du-langage-au-parti-socialiste/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
===2009 and 2010 Assembly of French Citizens Abroad Election=== She was Christiane Ciccone's running mate in the 2009 Assembly of French Citizens Abroad election and was elected as the second candidate of the Socialist Party slate. However, another candidate who did not get elected sued to get the election invalidated.<ref>[http://www.france-amerique.com/articles/2010/06/16/assemblee_des_francais_de_l_etranger_on_efface_tout_et_on_recommence_dans_la_circonscription_de_washington.html "AFE : Annulation des élections dans la circonscription de Washington !"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120114083806/http://www.france-amerique.com/articles/2010/06/16/assemblee_des_francais_de_l_etranger_on_efface_tout_et_on_recommence_dans_la_circonscription_de_washington.html |date=2012-01-14 }}, ''France Amerique'', June 16, 2010</ref> Christiane Ciccone and Corinne Narassiguin were reelected in 2010.<ref>{{cite web|title=Elections partielles à l'AFE|language=French|publisher=Français du monde|year=2010|url=http://www.blogg.org/blog-74667-billet-special_lycee_fran%C3%87ais_de_tananarive-1263175.html|accessdate=May 11, 2012}}</ref> She was once again elected in the subsequent re-run of the election. She later became one of the two vice-presidents of the Laws and Regulations Committee at the Assembly of French Citizens Abroad.
===2012 Legislative Election=== {{Main|French legislative election, 2012}} She was the first declared candidate,<ref>{{cite web|title=Législatives 2012 : Guy Wildenstein renonce, Christine Lagarde " tâte le terrain "|language=French|last=Safar|first=Johanna|publisher=France-Amérique|date=February 5, 2011|url=http://www.france-amerique.com/articles/2011/02/05/legislatives_2012_guy_wildenstein_renonce_christine_lagarde_tate_le_terrain.html|accessdate=May 15, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110911235031/http://www.france-amerique.com/articles/2011/02/05/legislatives_2012_guy_wildenstein_renonce_christine_lagarde_tate_le_terrain.html|archive-date=September 11, 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref> having started campaigning in December 2010.<ref>{{cite news|language=French|publisher=Le Point|title=Législatives : Frédéric Lefebvre à la conquête de l'Amérique |last=Buisson|first=Alexis|date=May 14, 2012|url=http://www.lepoint.fr/politique/legislatives-frederic-lefebvre-a-la-conquete-de-l-amerique-14-05-2012-1461189_20.php|accessdate=May 16, 2012}}</ref> In March 2012, she announced that some of her objectives were to encourage international mobility<ref>{{cite web|language=French|title=Corinne Narassiguin : "Je m'étais préparée à faire campagne contre quelqu'un du gouvernement"|publisher=France Amérique|last=Digonnet|first=Anaïs|date=February 9, 2012|url=http://www.france-amerique.com/articles/2012/02/09/legislatives_2012_2.html|accessdate=May 16, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120510162038/http://www.france-amerique.com/articles/2012/02/09/legislatives_2012_2.html|archive-date=May 10, 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref> and to foster a debate over changes to the labor laws.<ref>{{cite web|language=French|title=Le 17 juin, débarquement à l'Assemblée nationale|last=Schilis-Gallego|first=Cécile|publisher=Libération|date=March 30, 2012|url=http://washington.blogs.liberation.fr/great_america/2012/03/le-17-juin-d%C3%A9barquement-%C3%A0-lassembl%C3%A9e-nationale.html|accessdate=May 10, 2012|archive-date=May 2, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120502165258/http://washington.blogs.liberation.fr/great_america/2012/03/le-17-juin-d%C3%A9barquement-%C3%A0-lassembl%C3%A9e-nationale.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> The same month, she said her two main "themes" were education and social matters, advocating for the establishment of a consular social benefit based on the revenu de solidarité active and universal healthcare.<ref>{{cite news|language=French|title=Les législatives françaises en Amérique du Nord|last=Lopoukhine|first=Raphael|newspaper=le Régional|date=March 28, 2012|url=http://www.leregional.com/nouvelles.asp?nID=16339|accessdate=May 10, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120331075136/http://www.leregional.com/nouvelles.asp?nID=16339|archive-date=March 31, 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref> She was elected on the second round with 54% of the votes.<ref>{{cite news|title=Corinne Narassiguin, députée des Français d'Amérique du Nord|language=French|last=Buisson|first=Alexis|newspaper=France Amérique|date=June 17, 2012|url=http://frenchmorning.com/ny/2012/06/17/corinne-narassiguin-deputee-des-francais-damerique-du-nord/|accessdate=June 18, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120620215948/http://frenchmorning.com/ny/2012/06/17/corinne-narassiguin-deputee-des-francais-damerique-du-nord/|archive-date=June 20, 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref> On February 15, 2013 her election was invalidated by France's highest constitutional court for accounting irregularities and she was banned from public office for 12 months.<ref>Court decision: http://www.conseil-constitutionnel.fr/conseil-constitutionnel/francais/les-decisions/acces-par-date/decisions-depuis-1959/2013/2012-4551-an/decision-n-2012-4551-an-du-15-fevrier-2013.136029.html ; http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/14/tribun/fiches_id/610850.asp</ref>
==References== {{reflist|2}}
==External links== * {{in lang|fr}} [https://www.senat.fr/senateur/narassiguin_corinne18231d.html Mme Corinne NARASSIGUIN], official Senate page * {{in lang|fr}} [https://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/dyn/deputes/PA610850 Mme Corinne Narassiguin], official National Assembly page * {{in lang|fr}} [https://web.archive.org/web/20120510164840/http://frenchmorning.com/ny/2012/05/08/corinne-narassiguin-nous-ne-changerons-pas-la-fiscalite-des-francais-de-letranger/ Corinne Narassiguin] on ''French Morning''
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