Nora Berra is Secretary of State for Health under the Minister of Labour, Employment and Health Xavier Bertrand, in the François Fillon III Government, and a Member of the European Parliament

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, representing South East France

South-East France (European Parliament constituency)

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 for the Union for a Popular Movement

Union for a Popular Movement

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Daughter of an Algeria

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n soldier, and 5th child in a family of 11, Berra was raised in a Gaullist family. She studied at the Collège-lycée Ampère

Collège-lycée Ampère

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, before continuing with medicine in Oran

Oran

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. In 1994 and 1996, she gave birth to her two children.

Between 1999 and 2009, she worked in various pharmaceutical laboratories around Lyon.

From 2001 until 2008, Berra was a municipal councillor in Neuville-sur-Saône

Neuville-sur-Saône

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, at which point she was elected to the Municipal Council of Lyon

Lyon

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. In the June 2009 European elections

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, she was fifth on the UMP list in South-East France

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, and was elected to the European Parliament

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On June 23, 2009, she entered the government of Prime Minister

Prime Minister of France

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 François Fillon

François Fillon

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 as Secretary of State for the Elderly, under the authority of Xavier Darcos

Xavier Darcos

Xavier Darcos is a French politician, scholar and civil servant currently serving as Minister of Labour.An agrégé professor in literature and general inspector of the National Education system, he has been Mayor of Périgueux, a Senator, and a junior minister in Jean-Pierre Raffarin's...

, Minister of Labour, Social Relations, Family and Solidarity

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On November 14, 2010, she was promoted to state secretary for health after a cabinet shift