In 2004, she was appointed Deputy Chairman of the Mission Locale Landaise, succeeding Jean-Claude Sescousse.[4] She stepped down from this position when she was elected to the French Senate in October 2017.[5]
In March 2015, she was elected departmental councillor for the Chalosse Tursan canton in tandem with Olivier Martinez.[6] She was vice-president of the departmental council from 2015 to 2017, in charge of the social affairs and housing commission.[7]
She is a candidate in the 2017 senatorial elections in Landes.[9] She was elected senator, in tandem with Socialist Éric Kerrouche.
Parliamentary work
On her arrival in the Senate, she joined the Social Affairs Committee, becoming its vice-president in 2019.[10]
Appointed member of the Conseil d'orientation des retraites (COR) and the mission d'évaluation et de contrôle de la sécurité sociale,[10] she and Senator René-Paul Savary authored two reports on pensions, one on "Pension reform: the end-of-career challenge" (2019)[11] and the other on "Special scheme reserves" (2021).[12]
Committed to youth issues, in January 2021 she was rapporteur for the Social Affairs Commission on Senator Rémi Cardon's bill on new rights from the age of eighteen.[13] She also authored the report "L'égalité des chances, jalon des politiques de jeunesse" (Equal opportunity, a milestone in youth policies) (2021)[14] or the Mission d'information sur la politique en faveur de l'égalité des chances et de l'émancipation de la jeunesse.[15]
Elected representative of Landes
In defense of "traditional hunting", in the summer of 2021 she denounced a Conseil d'Etat decision to ban the hunting of larks with pantières or matoles, a practice deemed cruel by animal protectionists. She is also concerned about the future of net hunting for wood pigeon, bullfighting and the practice of force-feeding geese and ducks.[16]
In November 2021, she took a stand in favor of the Grand projet ferroviaire du Sud-Ouest (GPSO) with Landes departmental council president Xavier Fortinon, along with Landes socialist elected representatives and parliamentarians, deputy Boris Vallaud and senator Éric Kerrouche.[17]