Corinne Narassiguin

Corinne Narassiguin (born March 7, 1975, in Saint Paul, Reunion) is a French New York based banker. She is the Vice President of the Laws and Regulations Committee at the Assembly of French Citizens Abroad, and the candidate of the French Socialist party and of the Greens in the North America constituency of French residents abroad, which will elect its first representative at the 2012 legislative election.

Personal life
Corinne Narassiguin was born in Saint Paul, in the French overseas department of Réunion, into a family of left-leaning teachers. She graduated from Telecom & Management SudParis and earned a master in telecommunications from the University College of London. She has been a resident in the Unites States since 2002. She said her interest in politics started during the 2000 US Elections.

Political life
Narassiguin joined the New York City branch of the Socialist Party and was its secretary in 2008. In 2005 she was elected to the regional executive committee where she handled international affairs after co-authoring a paper about modernising the life of the party.

2009 and 2010 AFE Election
She was Christiane Ciccone's running mate in the 2009 AFE election. She was on second position and she got elected. However, Jean Lachaud, a candidate on an opposite slated who did not get elected sued to get the election invalidated. Christiane Ciccone and Corinne Narassiguin were reelected in 2010.

2012 Legislative Election
She was the first declared candidate in early 2011. In March 2012, she announced that some of her objectives were to encourage international mobility and an American-inspired relaxation of labor laws. The same month, she said her two main "themes" were education and social matters, advocating for the establishement of a consular social benefit based on the revenu de solidarité active and universal healthcare.