Cécile Duflot

Cécile Duflot (2010).

Cécile Duflot (born April 1, 1975 in Villeneuve-Saint-Georges , Département Val-de-Marne ) is a French politician of the Europe Écologie-Les Verts (EELV, Europa Ökologie-Die Grünen ). She was Secretary General of Les Verts and EELV from 2006 to 2012 and Minister for Housing from May 2012 to March 2014.

In April 2018, she left politics and became General Manager of Oxfam France.

Family and education

She is the daughter of a railroad worker and a physics and chemistry teacher who were both unionized. She is divorced and has four children.

After completing her Baccalauréat in 1992, she studied geography at the Université Paris Diderot (Paris VII), graduating in 1997 with a license and a DEA . At the same time, the Catholic was involved in the Christian Workers' Youth , the Bird Protection League and Genepi , a student organization that campaigns for the education of prison inmates. At times she worked as a public writer for the prisoners in the Paris prison La Santé . In 1998 she started a postgraduate course in urban economics at the ESSEC business school , which she completed after two years with a Maîtrise ès sciences (M.Sc.). She then worked for a real estate group that rents social housing in the Paris suburb of Créteil .

politics

Duflot joined the Les Verts party in 2001 and was elected to the municipal council of her hometown Villeneuve-Saint-Georges in the Parisian suburb in 2004. In November 2006, Duflot became General Secretary of Les Verts. For the 2009 European elections , she and Daniel Cohn-Bendit initiated the Europe Écologie party alliance , with which Les Verts merged in 2010 to form the Europe Écologie-Les Verts (EELV) party. Duflot remained its general secretary until June 2012. In the election to the regional council of the Île-de-France region on March 14, 2010, she was the top candidate of the green list, who achieved a respectable success with 16.6% of the votes in the first ballot. For the second ballot, she entered into a list connection with the left-wing alliance of regional president Jean-Paul Huchon and helped it to victory. Duflot also entered the regional council himself.

After the election of the socialist François Hollandes as President, he appointed Duflot on May 16, 2012 as Minister for Equality of Territories and Housing (French Ministère de l'Égalité des Territoires et du Logement ) in the Ayrault cabinet . In the parliamentary elections in June 2012, Duflot won a mandate in the 6th constituency of Paris (she received 72% of the vote in the second ballot), but she waived this in order to remain a minister. She was responsible for the law passed in March 2014 on access to housing and renewed urban development (Loi pour l'accès au logement et un urbanisme rénové) .

When Manuel Valls was appointed Prime Minister to succeed Jean-Marc Ayrault , Duflot left the government on March 31, 2014 at his own request. Then she was again a member of the national presidency. There she took over the co-chairmanship of the ecological group in October 2015 (together with Barbara Pompili ). In the run-up to the 2017 presidential election , Duflot applied for the candidacy of the Greens, but was eliminated in the first round of the primary election with 24.4 percent. In the parliamentary elections in June 2017 , she ran again in the 6th constituency of Paris, but only received 14.7 percent of the vote.

Web links

Commons : Cécile Duflot  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Cécile Duflot met fin à sa carrière politique pour prendre la tête d'Oxfam France. In: Le Figaro (online), April 5, 2018.
2. ↑ Notre Organization , Oxfam France, accessed July 5, 2020.
3. ^ Duflot, maman d'une petite Térébentine. In: Le Figaro (online), February 25, 2008.
4. ^ Catherine Simon: Cécile Duflot, l'ouverture en Vert. In: Le Monde , January 19, 2009.
5. ^ Albrecht Meier: France's Greens leader Cécile Duflot: "Cohn-Bendit is a snarling Smurf". In: Tagesspiegel , June 4, 2011.
6. ^ Ile-de-france: results of the regional elections