Marie-France Beaufils
Marie-France Beaufils is a former member of the Senate of France, representing the Indre-et-Loire department from 2001 to 2017. She is a member of the Communist, Republican, and Citizen Group.
Biography
A schoolteacher by profession, Marie-France Beaufils joined the French Communist Party in 1967. She was elected to the municipal council of Saint-Pierre-des-Corps in the 1977 municipal elections and became deputy mayor. Elected as a general councilor in 1982, she became mayor of Saint-Pierre-des-Corps in 1983. She is vice-president of the Tours Plus urban community and has been a member of the Higher Council for Public Rail Transport since 1999.Re-elected in the March 2001 cantonal elections, she was elected on September 23, 2001, in the senatorial elections under the proportional representation system as a member of the French Communist Party and left the general council.
Until January 2007, she was the leader of the anti-liberal collective in Saint-Pierre-des-Corps, which became the committee supporting Marie-George Buffet candidacy. She ran in the 2007 legislative elections in the 3rd district of Indre-et-Loire, receiving 4,362 votes, or 7.48% of the votes cast.
In the 2008 municipal elections, the PS-PCF coalition list she led in Saint-Pierre-des-Corps won in the first round with 57.2% of the vote.
In 2009, she headed the Left Front (France) list for the European elections on June 7 in the Centre-Massif Central constituency, which covers the administrative regions of Centre, Auvergne, and Limousin. Although she obtained 8.07% of the vote, she was not elected.
She ran again in the 2011 senatorial elections in Indre-et-Loire and was re-elected on September 25, 2011.
In July 2016, Marie-France Beaufils published a parliamentary report in which she gave a harsh assessment of the tax credit for competitiveness and employment, a measure introduced in January 2013 by the Ayrault government. She emphasized that the significant cost to public finances was considerable, while the effects on employment and competitiveness were highly uncertain.
Marie-France Beaufils will not seek re-election to the Senate in 2017.
On April 4, 2019, at a general meeting of the local branch of the French Communist Party, she announced that she would not be standing for re-election in the 2020 municipal elections, wishing to see “a new dynamic with a renewed team”.