23 Facts About Corinne Lepage

Corinne Lepage is the founder and President since 1996 of the Citizenship, Action, Participation for the 21st Century Party.

Corinne Lepage is co-founder of the centrist Mouvement democrate and served as Vice-President for the party until March 2010, when she announced that she was leaving the movement.

Corinne Lepage attended Sciences Po in Paris, where she obtained her law diploma and began practising law in 1975.

Corinne Lepage has taught at the Universite de Paris at St-Quentin-en-Yvelines since 2005.

Corinne Lepage is married and the mother of two children.

Corinne Lepage then worked on many cases concerning the environment, along with local associations, groups, companies or local government.

Since 2006, Corinne Lepage has sided with the victims of the MV Erika oil spill of 12 December 1999 against Total among others.

Corinne Lepage has defended environmental interests outside of her political career, such as in the Paris and Brussels bar associations and by involvement in numerous NGOs.

Corinne Lepage is the co-founder with Michele Rivasi of the Observatory for Environmental Vigilance and Alertness.

Corinne Lepage teaches at Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University and Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris as a professor of Sustainable Development.

Corinne Lepage notably wants a rapprochement between centrists and environmentalists.

Corinne Lepage became Deputy Mayor of Cabourg in Calvados in March 1989.

Corinne Lepage ran in the 1993 under this party label for the legislative elections in the fourth district of Calvados.

Corinne Lepage was then not a member of any political party.

Corinne Lepage was one of twelve women in the first Juppe government.

Corinne Lepage made progress in the area of prevention with the adoption of a Clean Air Law, the creation of the Committee on Prevention and Precaution and, at the end state participation with the Professional Committee on Asbestos.

The trade unionist Christian Moesl said during a parliamentary hearing that "Corinne Lepage put Superphenix on the edge of the precipice and Dominique Voynet pushed it over".

Corinne Lepage used her experiences as a Minister to write a book in which she attacks industrial lobbies, hunters and technocrats in the upper levels of the civil service.

Corinne Lepage then transformed CAP 21 into a political movement.

Corinne Lepage did not participate in the second ballot run-off on the Union for a Popular Movement roster of Jean-Francois Cope.

Corinne Lepage was elected to the European Parliament elected in the 2009 European election in North-West constituency as the MoDem's top candidate.

Corinne Lepage became Vice-President of the MoDem on 15 June 2008.

Corinne Lepage was elected to the European Parliament in the 2009 election.