Dominique Vérien

Dominique Vérien
Vérien in 2024
Senator for Yonne
Assumed office
17 December 2017
Preceded byHenri de Raincourt
Mayor of Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye
In office
30 March 2014 – 12 January 2018
Preceded byJean-Jacques Révillon
Succeeded byYohann Corde
Personal details
Born (1965-08-29) 29 August 1965
PartyUnion of Democrats and Independents
Alma materÉcole Spéciale des Travaux Publics
Occupation
  • Engineer
  • Politician

Dominique Vérien(French pronunciation: [dɔminik veʁjɛ̃]; born 29 August 1965) is a French engineer and politician who has served as a Senator for Yonne since 2017.[1] A member of the Union of Democrats and Independents (UDI), she sits with the Centrist Union group in the Senate. Vérien held the mayorship of Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye from 2014 to 2018.[2]

Biography

Vérien served one term as first deputy mayor of Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye from 2008 to 2014. She then served as mayor from 2014 until her resignation in 2018 following her election to the Senate.

In 2010 Vérien was a candidate in Yonne for the Regional Council of Burgundy but failed to be elected. She succeeded Guillaume Larrivé in 2012 following his election to the National Assembly and subsequent resignation from the Regional Council.[3] She was reelected in 2015 to the newly-formed Regional Council of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, a seat she held until her resignation in 2018.

Vérien ran for a Senate seat in 2014 but was defeated in the second round with 34.2% of the vote. In 2017 she won the by-election organised following the resignation of Henri de Raincourt with 36.6% of the second-round vote.[4] In 2020 she was elected to a full term with 64% of the first-round vote.[5]

References

  1. ^ "Mme Dominique Vérien" (in French). Senate.
  2. ^ "Dominique Vérien désignée rapporteure de la proposition de loi sur les thérapies de conversion au Sénat". Acteurs publics (in French). 24 November 2021.
  3. ^ "Législatives : La Bourgogne parlementaire prend un coup de jeune", Le Bien public (in French). 19 June 2012.
  4. ^ "Elections sénatoriales : Dominique Verien est élue sénatrice de l'Yonne", france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr (in French). 17 December 2017.
  5. ^ "Élections sénatoriales dans l'Yonne : Dominique Verien et Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne réélus". ici, par France Bleu et France 3 (in French). 27 September 2020. Retrieved 14 December 2022.