Career
She was Vice President of the Poitou-Charentes Regional Council under Regional President Jean-Pierre Raffarin and assumed the presidency upon Raffarin"s nomination as Prime Minister of France. In the 2004 European election, she was the third candidate on Roselyne Bachelot"s Universiti Malaysia Pahang list in the West but she was not elected. In the 2009 European elections, she was the second candidate on the Universiti Malaysia Pahang list in the West region and was elected to the European Parliament.