Alma Dufour

Alma Dufour (French pronunciation: [alma dyfuʁ]; born 6 May 1990) is a French politician from La France Insoumise who has been has been Member of Parliament for Seine-Maritime's 4th constituency since 2022.

Youth and early career

She was born on May 6, 1990 in Auch, Gers, France. She grew up in the 20th arrondissement of Paris, where her parents lived in low-income housing.

In 2012, she graduated with a law degree from Paris-Panthéon-Sorbonne University, which she completed with a master's degree in geopolitics, then in environmental sciences at AgroParisTech until 2015. She earns her living as an employee of Suez, then as a waitress, while working for the European Environmental Bureau (EEB) in Brussels on the circular economy (Negotiation of the Waste Framework Directive).

Environmental commitments

In 2015, during COP21 in Paris, she joined the Alternatiba/Action non-violente COP21 movement. She was then hired by Friends of the Earth France, and went on to become spokesperson for this NGO from 2017 to January 2021. From late 2018, Alma Dufour took part in the Yellow Vests movement, during which she was the victim of police violence.

Alongside this activism, Alma Dufour also carries out institutional lobbying. Under her impetus, Friends of the Earth supported local struggles against a dozen Amazon mega-warehouse projects in France, including the Petit-Couronne project in Seine-Maritime. It is taking part in actions to block Amazon sites and occupy the land of future projects between 2019 and 2022 until the multinational abandons 5 of these warehouse projects. She also highlights the study by economists Ano Kuhanathan and Florence Mouradian, which argues that e-commerce multinationals are responsible for the destruction of 82,000 jobs in France.

Following her experience in the fight against Amazon, Alma Dufour decided to specialize in the interaction between ecology and employment. She combats the idea that ecology could be a cause of job destruction, and also fights against the relocation of activities. She is an active member of the Plus Jamais ça! collective, which brings together Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, ATTAC and trade unions: CGT, Confédération paysanne, Solidaires, FSU.

Member of Parliament

In January 2021, she decided to leave her position as campaign manager and spokesperson for Les Amis de la Terre to join La France Insoumise and support Jean-Luc Mélenchon's presidential campaign.

In May 2022, she was nominated as candidate for the Nouvelle Union populaire écologique et sociale (the NUPES), in the fourth constituency of Seine-Maritime, and was elected deputy. She becomes a member of the National Assembly's Finance Committee.

Within LFI, she is in charge of the "agit-prop" pole from December 2022.