Virginie Joron

Versions of names: Виржини Жорон

France

Political activity

Virginie Joron is a member of the European Parliament elected in 2019. She is a Regional Councillor in the Upper Rhine region and has chaired the National Rally / Rassemblement National (former National Front) group in the ‘Grand Est’ since 2015. At the EP she is a member of the Delegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee and Delegation to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly, among others.

In September 2019 Joron and Thierry Mariani travelled to Syria to meet Bashar al Asad.

Missions

International experts at the 2020 All-Russian Voting in Crimea

Political affiliation at time of mission: identified

Party’s name: Rassemblement National (RN) / National Rally (former National Front)

Official function at time of mission: Member of the EU-Parliament since 2019

Corresponding elections

Plebiscite Election Russia Crimea 2020

Classification: illegitimate

In order to have a possibility to stay in power until 2036, Russian President Vladimir Putin decided, in January 2020, to change the Constitution of the Russian Federation and legitimise its change through the “all-Russian voting”. The overwhelming majority of the world’s nations does not recognise Russia’s annexation of Ukraine’s Autonomous Republic of Crimea in 2014 and international institutions such as the OSCE ODIHR consider Russian elections held in Crimea as illegitimate.