Benoît Potterie (; born 23 July 1967) is a French optician and politician of La République En Marche! (LREM) who served as a member of the National Assembly of France 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 department of Pas-de-Calais.
Political career In parliament, Potterie served as member of the Committee on Economic Affairs (2017-2019) and the Finance Committee (2019-2020) before moving to the Cultural and Education Affairs Committee.Benoît Potterie French National Assembly. In addition to his committee assignments, he was part of the French-Albanian Parliamentary Friendship Group and the French Parliamentary Friendship Group with Bosnia and Herzegovina.
In 2019, Potterie was one of only nine LREM members who voted against his parliamentary group's majority and opposed the French ratification of the European Union’s Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) with Canada.Le CETA, controversé accord de libre-échange avec le Canada, approuvé à l’Assemblée Le Monde, 23 July 2019.Maxime Vaudano (24 July 2019), CETA : qui a voté quoi parmi les députés Le Monde. In 2020, Potterie joined the Agir party's parliamentary group.À l'Assemblée, le groupe LREM enregistre un 40e départ en trois ans Le Figaro, 17 September 2020.
In the 2022 French legislative election, he stood as a Horizons (Ensemble) candidate. He lost his seat in the first round.
See also 2017 French legislative election
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