Jean-François Eliaou
French politician (born 1956)
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Jean-François Eliaou (born 13 August 1956) is a French politician who served as a member of the National Assembly from 2017 to 2022,[1] representing the department of Hérault.[2] He is a member of Renaissance (RE).
Jean-François Eliaou | |
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| Member of the National Assembly for Hérault's 4th constituency | |
| In office 21 June 2017 – June 2022 | |
| Preceded by | Frédéric Roig |
| Succeeded by | Sébastien Rome |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 13 August 1956 |
| Party | Renaissance |
| University of Montpellier | |
Early career
Eliaou is a pediatrician who is a member of the Cancer Research Institute of Montpellier, a professor at the Faculty of Medicine at Montpellier.[3]
Political career
In parliament, Eliaou served as member of the Committee on Legal Affairs[4] and the Parliamentary Office for the Evaluation of Scientific and Technological Choices (OPECST).[5] In addition to his committee assignments, he was a member of the French-Japanese Parliamentary Friendship Group.
In 2019, Eliaou steered through parliament a bioethics law extending to homosexual and single women free access to fertility treatments such as in vitro fertilisation (IVF) under France's national health insurance; it was one of the campaign promises of President Emmanuel Macron and marked the first major social reform of his five-year term.[6]
In 2021, Eliaou and Antoine Savignat jointly wrote a parliamentary report on the situation of unaccompanied minors in France's criminal law.[7]
He lost his seat in the first round of the 2022 French legislative election.[8]
