Pascal Bois (born 3 December 1959) is a French politician of Renaissance (RE) who served as a member of the French National Assembly from 2017 to 2022,Marius Bocquet (13 June 2022), Résultats législatives 2022 : qui sont les 65 députés sortants éliminés au premier tour ? Le Figaro. representing the 3rd constituency of the department of Oise.
Political career In parliament, Bois served as member of the Committee on Cultural Affairs and Education.Pascal Bois French National Assembly. In this capacity, he co-authored (together with Constance Le Grip) a 2021 report on the copyright law of France.Nicole Vulser (17 April 2021), La colère des artistes-auteurs ne faiblit pas Le Monde.
In addition to his committee assignments, Bois was a member of the French parliamentary friendship groups with the Dominican Republic, Georgia, India and Jamaica.
Bois lost his seat in the first round of the 2022 French legislative election.
Political positions In July 2019, Bois decided not to align with his parliamentary group's majority and became one of 52 LREM members who abstained from a vote on the French ratification of the European Union’s Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) with Canada.Maxime Vaudano (24 July 2019), CETA : qui a voté quoi parmi les députés Le Monde.
Controversy In December 2021, amid the COVID-19 pandemic in France, the garage of Bois’s house in Chambly and his car were set on fire and an adjacent wall scrawled with graffiti by suspected anti-vaccination protesters.Geert De Clercq (30 December 2021), French lawmaker's residence attacked in suspected anti-vaccination protest Reuters.
See also 2017 French legislative election
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