Charlotte Parmentier-Lecocq was appointed Minister for People with Disabilities this Friday, September 27. Michel Barnier’s government team now has 41 members.
Strongly criticized, the absence of a ministry or state secretariat dedicated to disability within Michel Barnier’s government has been corrected. This Friday, September 27, the MP for the North Charlotte Parmentier Lecocq has just joined the executive as Minister for People with Disabilities.
Born in Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe, this 47-year-old mother of three children, however, grew up in the North, where she now serves as a deputy, in the sixth constituency.
Charlotte Parmentier-Lecocq was elected during the 2017 legislative elections, under the colors of the Republic on the Move. Among the historic Macronists, she was still part of Emmanuel Macron’s supporters during his re-elections as a deputy in 2022 and 2024, but decided to join Horizons, the party of Edouard Philippe, at the beginning of September.
No more “justice in the regal sense”
At the time, she estimated that the French expressed in the last legislative elections a message for more “justice in the sovereign sense”, “social justice through the valorization of work and the fight against inequalities of destiny”. Subjects on which Horizons is carrying out, according to her, “in-depth work”.
Charlotte Parmentier-Lecocq was elected departmental councilor of the North in the canton of Templeuve-en-Pévèle in 2021, then president of the Social Affairs Commission of the National Assembly in September 2023. She succeeded to this position, which she left in June 2024, to Fadila Khattabi, herself appointed Minister Delegate in charge of People with Disabilities in the government of Elisabeth Borne.
As a horse riding enthusiast, Charlotte Parmentier-Lecocq is also a member of the parliamentary group dedicated to horses and participated, in 2021, in the development of a bill against animal abuse, in particular on measures prohibiting the abandonment of equines.
Appointed six days after Michel Barnier’s government team, the delegate minister must, according to Matignon, join the government seminar underway this Friday around the Prime Minister. With his appointment and that of Jean-Louis Thiériot, Minister Delegate in charge of Veterans, the government now has 41 members.
