Jean-François Eliaou

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Jean-François Eliaou
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Member of the National Assembly
for Hérault's 4th constituency
Assumed office
21 June 2017
Personal details
Born (1956-08-13) 13 August 1956 (age 65)
Nice
NationalityFrench
Political partyLa République En Marche!
Alma materUniversity of Montpellier

Jean-François Eliaou (born 13 August 1956) is a French politician of La République En Marche! (LREM) who has been serving as a member of the French National Assembly since 18 June 2017, representing the department of Hérault.[1]

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.[2]

Political career[]

In parliament, Eliaou serves as member of the Committee on Legal Affairs.[3] In addition to his committee assignments, he is 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.[4]

In 2021, Eliaou and Antoine Savignat jointly wrote a parliamentary report on the situation of unaccompanied minors in France's criminal law.[5]

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