(FILES) Head of the citizens panel on End of Life, Claire Thoury, attends a conference on the topic of end-of-life, at the Elysee presidential Palace, in Paris, on April 3, 2023. Claire Thoury was elected on May 20, 2026 as president of the Economic, Social, and Environmental Council (CESE), becoming the first woman to lead this third chamber of the Republican advisory body whose usefulness is debated. President of the Mouvement associatif, which brings together more than 700,000 associations, Claire Thoury, 36, received 97 votes to 74 for her sole opponent, former MEDEF Vice President Dominique Carlac'h. (Photo by Aurelien Morissard / POOL / AFP via Getty Images)