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Souad Zitouni, born 23 April 1974 in Boukadir, Algeria, is a lawyer and French politician. She became the deputy for Vaucluse's 1st constituency in National Assembly of France on 30 March 2020, following the death of Jean-François Cesarini. She is a member of La République En Marche!

Biography
Souad Zitouni was born in 1974 in Algeria, she was four years old when her family moved to France, to Marseille. She studied at the University of Aix-en-Provence, where she obtained a master's degree in public law and a specialized graduate diploma in local government management. She continued her training in a law school1. She practiced law from 2004 at the Avignon Carpentras bars.

Political career
She began her political activism with Ecology Generation, before joining the Democratic Movement. In 2008, she was a candidate for her party in the 2008 municipal elections at Pontet, on the Ambition Le Pontet list led by Michel Bouyol: in sixth position, she was not elected.

Ten years later, Souad Zitouni joined La République en marche and campaigned for Emmanuel Macron during the presidential election of 2017. She was a candidate in the legislative elections in Vaucluse'a 1st constituency, as substitute candidate for Jean-François Cesarini. They were elected, with 58% in the second round against a candidate from the National Front. Cesarini died on March 29, 2020, and Zitouni automatically succeeded him the next day.

At the National Assembly, she joined the a République en marche group.