Daniel Vaillant (born 19 July 1949) is a French
Socialist
Socialism is a left-wing economic philosophy and movement encompassing a range of economic systems characterized by the dominance of social ownership of the means of production as opposed to private ownership. As a term, it describes the e ...
politician.
Biography
Close to
Lionel Jospin
Lionel Robert Jospin (; born 12 July 1937) is a French politician who served as Prime Minister of France from 1997 to 2002.
Jospin was First Secretary of the Socialist Party from 1995 to 1997 and the party's candidate for President of France in ...
, Vaillant held several ministerial portfolios in his cabinets: Minister of the Relations with Parliament from 1997 to 2000 and
Interior Minister
An interior minister (sometimes called a minister of internal affairs or minister of home affairs) is a cabinet official position that is responsible for internal affairs, such as public security, civil registration and identification, emergency ...
from 2000 to 2002. He also supported Jospin as candidate for the
Socialist Party
Socialist Party is the name of many different political parties around the world. All of these parties claim to uphold some form of socialism, though they may have very different interpretations of what "socialism" means. Statistically, most of th ...
in the
2007 presidential election
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; a candidacy which eventually did not materialize.
As of 2009, he is mayor of the
18th arrondissement of Paris
The 18th arrondissement of Paris (''XVIIIe arrondissement'') is one of the 20 arrondissements of the capital city of France. In spoken French, this arrondissement is referred to as ''dix-huitième''.
The arrondissement, known as Butte-Montmartr ...
(first election 1995) and a member of the
National Assembly
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.
In October 2009, he proposed to decriminalize the personal use of cannabis through control of production and import, as is the case with alcohol.
[Daniel Vaillant (PS) propose une légalisation contrôlée du cannabis]
Le Monde, 9 October 2009
Published work
* ''C'est à ma gauche'',
Éditions Plon, 2003 (with a foreword by
Lionel Jospin
Lionel Robert Jospin (; born 12 July 1937) is a French politician who served as Prime Minister of France from 1997 to 2002.
Jospin was First Secretary of the Socialist Party from 1995 to 1997 and the party's candidate for President of France in ...
« La Sécurité, priorité à gauche »)
* ''PS : 40 ans d'histoire
(s). Du congrès d'Épinay à nos jours'', Éditions L'Archipel, 2011, 414 p.
References
External links
Official biographyon the French Parliament website.
1949 births
Living people
People from Nièvre
Politicians from Paris
Socialist Party (France) politicians
French interior ministers
Mayors of arrondissements of Paris
Deputies of the 12th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 13th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 14th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Chevaliers of the Légion d'honneur
Candidates for the 2017 French legislative election
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