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Christine Boutin
Christine Boutin

Christine Boutin (born in Levroux, Indre, France on February 6, 1944) is a French politician.

As of 2004, she is a deputy to the French National Assembly for the Yvelines département.

She became famous in 1998 for opposing the PACS domestic partnership plan, arguing that the government should not encourage homosexuality and was criticized for homophobia (see below for quotations). On one instance, Christine Boutin spoke for five hours in the French National Assembly; she also waved a Christian Bible in the direction of the speaker of the Assembly — a surprising gesture in a country where laïcité (implying no intervention of religion into political matters) is specified in the Constitution.

She was a candidate in the 2002 French presidential election where she scored 1.19% on the first round of balloting.

In 2006, she supported the "global license" flat-fee authorization for sharing of copyrighted files over the Internet in a heated parliamentary debate on the DADVSI law.

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