Gaëtan Gorce (born December 2, 1958, in Luzy, Nièvre) is a member of the
National Assembly of France
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. He represents the
Nièvre
Nièvre () is a department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region, central-east France. Named after the river Nièvre, it had a population of 204,452 in 2019.Socialiste, radical, citoyen et divers gauche.
Education
Gorce earned a law degree in
1979
Events
January
* January 1
** United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim heralds the start of the ''International Year of the Child''. Many musicians donate to the ''Music for UNICEF Concert'' fund, among them ABBA, who write the song ...
, then graduated from
Sciences Po
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in 1981 and from
ENA
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* English National Association, a former poli ...
in 1987 alongside future National Assembly colleague Christian Paul.
Professional career
As the administrator of Paris, then as sub-prefect and civil administrator, Gorce collaborated with Maurice Benassayag, interministerial delegate of Rapatriés (1988-1989), Pierre Joxe at the Ministry of the Interior (1989-1991), Edith Cresson in Matignon (1991-1992), and with
François Mitterrand
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as the president of the Republic (1992-1995).
Political career
Gorce is a member of the Socialist Party, which he joined in 1974. He led the New Voice movement and initiated the Renovators movement within the Socialist Party, notably alongside
Manuel Valls
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Christophe Caresche
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, and Jean-Patrick Gille.
Though he lost the municipal elections of 1995 in
Cosne-Cours-sur-Loire
Cosne-Cours-sur-Loire () is a Communes of France, commune and a Subprefectures in France, subprefecture of the Nièvre Departments of France, department in central France. It was created in 1973 by the merger of two former communes: Cosne-sur-L ...
, he nevertheless served as municipal counselor of the city until 2001. He was elected mayor of
La Charité-sur-Loire
La Charité-sur-Loire, known simply as La Charité until 1961, is a riverside commune in the western part of the French department of Nièvre. It is located on the departmental border with Cher, which is also the regional border with Centre-Val ...
in March 2001, and later re-elected in March 2008. As mayor, he launched a program to rehabilitate the city's historic center, founded the Festival du Mot with Marc Lecarpentier, and earned La Charité-sur-Loire the "city of art and history" label. He chose not to run for mayor in 2014 but remained a municipal councilor in the majority list until December 2017, when he left the post.
Gorce was elected as a delegate to the second constituency of
Nièvre
Nièvre () is a department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region, central-east France. Named after the river Nièvre, it had a population of 204,452 in 2019.35-hour week law. During he second term, he and Jean Leonetti co-chaired the information mission on end-of-life support, which led to the unanimous adoption of the Law on the rights of patients and the end of life by the National Assembly. For this action, Gorce received the ''Trombinoscope'' prize of "Delegate of the Year" in 2004.
Supporting
Ségolène Royal
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during the 2007 presidential campaign, in June he resigned from the national bodies of the PS and called for the resignation of Prime Secretary
François Hollande
François Gérard Georges Nicolas Hollande (; born 12 August 1954) is a French politician who served as President of France from 2012 to 2017. Before his presidency, he was First Secretary of the Socialist Party (France), First Secretary of th ...
, whom he held responsible for the defeat.
Still supporting Ségolène Royal at the 2008 Reims Congress, he returned briefly to the leadership of the Socialist Party (as national secretary of the PS responsible for exclusion), before leaving it definitively a few months later.
In 2009, he opposed the bill aimed at liberalizing internet gambling, judging the opening of this market to be inappropriate, in particular for reasons of public health.
In September 2009, he rejoined the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Assembly, while remaining vice-president of human rights organization Socialist Related. As a member of these organizations, he published a report on the situation in
Burma
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with the delegate Roland Blum. He also campaigned to obtain information about the disappearance of Chadian politician and opposition leader
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Early life and education
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.
Gorce was elected senator of Nièvre in September 2011 with 56.35% of the vote.
In 2011, denouncing the lack of preparation of the Socialist Party program, he decided not to join the campaign team of candidate François Hollande.
In 2014, he chaired the joint information mission "New role and new strategy for the European Union in global Internet governance".
In 2015, he was co-rapporteur of the fact-finding mission “Relations with Russia: how to break the deadlock?".
In 2016, he co-chaired the working group on the refugee crisis.
He was a member of Arnaud Montebourg's campaign team for the 2017 citizen primary. After the victory of Benoît Hamon, Gorce was appointed thematic manager of his presidential campaign.
Gorce was a candidate in the 2017 legislative elections in the first constituency of Nièvre, ultimately finishing third. After the loss, he announced his withdrawal from municipal and parliamentary life, and decided not to enter in the senatorial elections of the same year. In October 2018, he left the PS and joined the Republican and Socialist Left Party, created by Marie-Noëlle Lienemann and
Emmanuel Maurel
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, where he led "Our Common Causes."
Member of Cnil
Between 2011 and 2016, Gorce was a member of the National Commission for Information and Liberties (Cnil). He received compensation for this even though article 4 of ordinance n° 58-1210 prohibits such action.. As a member of Cnil, he was behind a bill to ban "comfort biometrics" and a parliamentary report concerning
open data
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from the perspective of personal data protection and the right to privacy.