Dominique Vérien
Dominique Vérien, born on 29 August 1965, is a French engineer who has been a Senator for Yonne since 2017. She is a member of the Union of Democrats and Independents (UDI) and sits with the Centrist Union group in the Senate.
Vérien was the mayor of Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye from 2014 to 2018, after serving as first deputy mayor from 2008 to 2014.
Her regional political work started in 2010 when she ran for the Burgundy regional council but was not elected. In 2012 she joined the regional council after Guillaume Larrivé left for the National Assembly. She was re-elected in 2015 to the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté regional council and remained until her 2018 resignation.
She first ran for the Senate in 2014 but was defeated in the second round. She won a by-election in 2017 after Henri de Raincourt resigned, with 36.6% in the second round. In 2020 she was elected to a full term as senator, with 64% of the first-round vote.
Education: École Spéciale des Travaux Publics. Profession: engineer.
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