Kheira Bouziane-Laroussi (born 23 August 1953) is a French politician, elected in

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(as Kheira Bouziane) as a deputy for the

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. In 2008 she became alderman for solidarity and family in

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, a town in

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candidate for the

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in the

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. She was finally selected. She had been a leading local member of the support committee for

Martine Aubry Martine Louise Marie Aubry (; née Delors; born 8 August 1950) is a French politician. She was the First Secretary of the French Socialist Party (''Parti Socialiste'', or PS) from November 2008 to April 2012, and has been the Mayor of Lille (No ...

for the French presidential primaries to select the Socialist Party candidate in 2011. She finished first in the first round, with 37.98%, and won the second round with 53.05%.Côte-d'Or's 3rd constituency, Official results
/ref> She stood in the 2017 election for Côte-d'Or's 3rd constituency as a

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candidate, and did not make the second round, which was won by LREM's Fadila Khattabi.

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1953 births Living people People from Oran French people of Algerian descent Socialist Party (France) politicians Women members of the National Assembly (France) Deputies of the 14th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic 21st-century French women politicians {{France-politician-Socialist-stub