Patrick Bloche

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Patrick Bloche
Patrick Bloche in 2011
Member of the National Assembly
In office
1997–2017
Preceded byAlain Devaquet
Succeeded byPacôme Rupin
ConstituencyParis's 7th constituency
Personal details
Born (1956-07-04) 4 July 1956 (age 67)
Neuilly-sur-Seine, France
Political partySocialist Party

Patrick Bloche (born 4 July 1956 in

SRC parliamentary group.[1]

Political career

Career in local politics

Bloche has been a member of the

City Council
since June 1995.

First, a close collaborator of

Jean-Pierre Chevenement
and Georges Sarre.

In January 2000, Bloche was supported by Daniel Vaillant and Bertrand Delanoë (Chairman of the Socialist Group in the Council of Paris), and he was elected with over 61% of the votes of members to the post of first secretary of the Parti Socialiste Paris federation, where he succeeded Jean-Marie Le Guen, who resigned on 23 November 1999.

Member of the National Assembly, 1997–2017

Bloche served as a member of parliament for the Socialist Party from 1997, the year of the dissolution of the National Assembly by

PACS, which he was co-authored with Jean-Pierre Michel
.

Bloche led the Socialist list in 2008 French municipal elections, in the XIth district, and was elected Mayor of the Borough, on 29 March 2008. In 2009, he opposed the draft HADOPI law, and defended as an alternative the blanket license. In 2011, he opposed a "freedom of panorama" amendment, calling it an « amendement Wikipédia ».[2]

On 13 July 2011 Bloche joined the campaign team of Martine Aubry for the PS primaries, which she lost to François Hollande. Within the campaign team, he was responsible, along with Sandrine Bonnaire, for culture and media.

In parliament, Bloche served as president of the

gender" in the national elementary curriculum.[3] The elementary curriculum was successfully revised in September 2013 under the name "l'ABCD de l'egalite".[4]

In addition to his committee assignments, Bloche served as vice chairman of the Study Group on the issue of Tibet.

Ahead of the Socialist Party's 2017 primaries, Bloche endorsed Vincent Peillon as the party's candidate for the presidential election later that year.[5]

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