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Cécile Duflot (; born 1 April 1975) is a French
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( NGO) leader and former politician. She has been a
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and political party leader. She was Minister of Territorial Equality and Housing () in the Ayrault Cabinet from 2012 to 2014.Ministre de l'Egalité des Territoires et du Logement
(official French government web site for the Ministry)
Ministre de l'Egalité des Territoires et du Logement (French Wikipedia)
Until June 2012, she was Party Secretary (i.e. leader) of
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, a position she held from November 2006; with Jean-Luc Bennahmias, she was the only Green leader to have served two consecutive terms. In May 2012, she announced her resignation from this role. On 5 April 2018, she announced her departure from politics to lead
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France starting on 15 June.


Personal life

Duflot was born in Villeneuve-Saint-Georges,
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, Catherine Simon
« Cécile Duflot, l'ouverture en Vert »
''
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'', 20 January 2009
the eldest daughter of a railway unionist and a physics and chemistry teacher (who was herself also a unionist).« Numéro vert »
by Sabrina Champenois, ''Libération'', 10 January 2007
Duflot spent her childhood and adolescence in the district of
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before returning to her native town, Villeneuve-Saint-Georges, in the early 1990s. She is a town planner by profession, a graduate of the
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( French Business School), and holds a master's degree in geography. Her first activist commitments were in the ''Jeunesse ouvrière chrétienne'' ("Young Christian Workers")  (2007 legislative elections), on the official site of the ''Verts de Basse-Normandie'' and the ''Ligue pour la protection des oiseaux'' ("Birds' Protection League").« Elle s'enracine chez les Verts »
''Ouest-France'', 8 December 2008
A divorcée, Cécile Duflot is the mother of three girls and a boy in a step-family. Also, she shared the life of Jean-Vincent Placé, a French Senator and once Secretary of State.


Political career

After joining
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in 2001, she stood in the municipal elections at Villeneuve-Saint-Georges that same year. Marie Quenet
« Duflot, l'inconnue réélue »
, '' Le Journal du Dimanche'', 7 December 2008
She became an opposition municipal councillor in the town in June 2004. In 2003, she joined the electoral college of the Greens; she organised the acquisition of their national headquarters. She became spokesperson for the party in January 2005. That same year on
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, she swam in the
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in Paris with three other members of the electoral college to denounce river pollution in France and to match
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's promise, when he was Mayor of Paris, to swim in the Seine. On 16 November 2006 she was elected National Secretary of the ''Conseil National Inter Régional'', succeeding Yann Wehrling. At the age of 31, she was the youngest-ever National Secretary of the Greens. At the end of 2006, she stood for the party's primary to nominate its presidential candidate for the
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. Earning 23.29% of the vote, she came third after
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and Yves Cochet, and did not qualify for the second round. In the 2007 legislative elections, she was the Green Party candidate in the third district of Val-De-Marne and gained 3.55% of the vote. In March 2008 during the municipal elections at Villeneuve-St-Georges, she came in second place on a unified ticket of the PS, the MRC, the PRG and the Greens after socialist Laurent Dutheil. The ticket earned 24.36%. On 6 December 2008, introducing a motion synthesizing four of the six activists' voting slips three weeks earlier, she was re-offered the post of National Secretary of the Greens with 70.99% of the votes. With Jean-Luc Benhamias, she is the only secretary to be offered a second consecutive term, Dominique Plancke having completed three terms of one year. During her first term, she worked to establish Europe Écologie for the European Elections of 2009. She is not eligible as a candidate for this now, preferring instead to focus on her mandate as National Secretary. In 2010, she along with Monica Frassoni, Renate Künast, and
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were named by
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magazine to its list of top global thinkers, for taking
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mainstream. In August 2014, she voiced criticisms of the French government, particularly of President François Hollande, stating that, "...wanting to be a leftist president, he never found his social base nor his supporters. This is not a question of temperament, rather it is the result of a succession of often unexpected choices, which are sometimes inconsistent with each other." She is a member of the Advisory Panel of DiEM25.


As Minister

The position of Minister of Housing was offered to her in the Ayrault government of the Hollande presidency, which began in May 2012. One of her tasks was to promulgate a law on social housing. Her first effort, announced 11 September of that year, failed in October, causing embarrassment to the Prime Minister. The loi Duflot replaced the :fr:Loi Scellier on 18 January 2013. The loi Alur (Accès au logement et urbanisme rénové) restricted landlord-tenant relations in exchange for favourable financial treatment. It passed on 20 February 2014.


After politics

In June 2017 she was for the Green Party a candidate for Parliament. She was eliminated in the first round. Since June 2018 she is the executive director of the NGO Oxfam France, member of the confederation Oxfam International. She is a member of the board of Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne University for 2020-2024. On 22 April 2022, she was appointed by decree to the National Consultative Ethics Committee for Life Sciences and Health on the proposal of the Defender of Rights


Main political offices

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to terminate what is known as
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has not, as of March 2014, been fulfilled. * Minister of Territories Equality and Housing : May 2012 – March 2014. * Deputy for the 6th electoral district of Paris : Since June 2012 * Regional councillor of
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, and chairwoman of the
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Group : 2010–2012 (Resignation). * Deputy-mayor of Villeneuve-Saint-Georges : 2008–2011 (Resignation). * Municipal councillor of Villeneuve-Saint-Georges : Since 2004. Reelected in 2008. * National Secretary of
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: 2006–2012 (Resignation).


References


Bibliography

* Yves Frémion, History of the Green Revolution, published by Hoebeke, 2007, p. 395 ()


External links

* * *
Cécile Duflot
on the official Green Party site. *
Cécile Duflot's blog
on the European Ecology site for the 2009 European elections. * Housing and Accommodatio

Official site for Minister of Territorial Equality and Housing (). * :fr:Ministère de l'Égalité des Territoires et du Logement {{DEFAULTSORT:Duflot, Cecile 1975 births Living people Paris Diderot University alumni ESSEC Business School alumni Europe Ecology – The Greens politicians Government ministers of France People from Villeneuve-Saint-Georges Politicians from Île-de-France Women members of the National Assembly (France) Deputies of the 14th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic 21st-century French women politicians Women government ministers of France Women opposition leaders