Daniel Vaillant
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Daniel Vaillant | |
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Relation with the Parliament | |
In office 4 June 1997 – 29 August 2002 | |
President | Jacques Chirac |
Prime Minister | Lionel Jospin |
Preceded by | Roger Romani |
Succeeded by | Jean-Jack Queyranne |
Mayor of the 18th arrondissement of Paris | |
In office 1995–2014 | |
Preceded by | Roger Chinaud |
Succeeded by | Éric Lejoindre |
Member of the National Assembly for Paris's 19th constituency | |
In office 1988–1993 | |
Preceded by | Proportional Representation per department |
Succeeded by | Jean-Pierre Pierre-Bloch |
Member of the National Assembly for Paris's 19th constituency | |
In office 1994–1997 | |
Preceded by | Jean-Pierre Pierre-Bloch |
Succeeded by | Daniel Marcovitch |
Member of the National Assembly for Paris's 19th constituency | |
In office 19 June 2002 – 2012 | |
Preceded by | Daniel Marcovitch |
Succeeded by | Constituency abolished – same area now in Paris's 17th constituency |
Member of the National Assembly for Paris's 17th constituency | |
In office 2012 – 21 June 2017 | |
Preceded by | Annick Lepetit (different area of Paris, moved to Paris's 3rd constituency in redistricting) |
Succeeded by | Danièle Obono |
Personal details | |
Born | Lormes, France | 19 July 1949
Political party | Socialist Party |
Daniel Vaillant (born 19 July 1949) is a French Socialist politician.
Biography
Close to
Interior Minister from 2000 to 2002. He also supported Jospin as candidate for the Socialist Party in the 2007 presidential election;[1]
a candidacy which eventually did not materialize.
As of 2009, he is mayor of the 18th arrondissement of Paris (first election 1995) and a member of the National Assembly.
In October 2009, he proposed to decriminalize the personal use of cannabis through control of production and import, as is the case with alcohol.[2]
Published work
- C'est à ma gauche, Éditions Plon, 2003 (with a foreword by Lionel Jospin « La Sécurité, priorité à gauche »)
- PS : 40 ans d'histoire(s). Du congrès d'Épinay à nos jours, Éditions L'Archipel, 2011, 414 p. ISBN 978-2-8098-0481-2
References
- ^ Paul Quinio, Jospin se retire de sa retraite politique, Libération, 29 June 2006.
- ^ (in French) Daniel Vaillant (PS) propose une légalisation contrôlée du cannabis, Le Monde, 9 October 2009
External links
- Official biography on the French Parliament website.