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Delphine Batho (2007)

Delphine Batho (born March 23, 1973 in Paris ) is a French politician . She was up to the July 2, 2013 Minister for Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy in the Cabinet of Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault . She was dismissed as Environment Minister on July 2, 2013 because she had publicly criticized the austerity measures of the incumbent Ayrault government and above all the budget cuts in the Environment Ministry.

Life

Commitment against discrimination and for student rights

Delphine Batho, daughter of the well-known French photographers John and Claude Batho, was influenced by the deaths of artists such as Daniel Balavoine , Coluche and Pierre Desproges as a student of the Lycée Henri IV, committed to the rights of school children . Her classmates included the future journalist and writer Mazarine Pingeot , an illegitimate daughter of François Mitterrand . In 1988, at the age of fifteen, she joined the human rights organization SOS Racisme and the student organization Fédération indépendante et démocratique lycéenne (FIDL), of which she was president between 1990 and 1992.

Batho, who was then vice-president of SOS Racisme from 1992 to 1998 , became a member of the Parti Socialiste in 1994, where she joined the left wing of the party led by Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Julien Dray , for which she dealt with questions of internal and national security . In 2000 she became a member of the national office of the PS and rose to the top leadership of the party. In addition, she was National Secretary of the Parti Socialiste for security issues between 2003 and 2008.

Deputy Minister and Minister

On June 17, 2007 she was elected member of the National Assembly , in which Delphine Batho has since represented the constituency of Deux-Sèvres II . Her mandate has been suspended since she entered government on May 17, 2012.

After François Hollande was elected President and Jean-Marc Ayrault was appointed Prime Minister, she was appointed Assistant Minister in the Ministry of Justice in its cabinet on May 17, 2012 , and was subordinate to Christiane Taubira , Minister of Justice .

As a minister, she caused a first small affair in the new government: Shortly after her appointment, she moved out of a social apartment she lived in, after having been criticized for months because the rent for this apartment was around 30 percent below the Parisian Rent level for apartments of this size was.

When the cabinet was reorganized after the parliamentary elections in 2012 , Batho was appointed Minister for the Environment, Sustainable Development and Energy. As part of the austerity policy of the French government, your ministry was ordered to cut the budget by seven percent, which it publicly criticized. She was released on July 2, 2013. He was succeeded by Philippe Martin . In a subsequent press conference, she took the government, the style of her dismissal and indirectly also with President François Hollande in court and expressed the conviction that her dismissal was only under pressure from certain business circles. In particular, the head of the company, who is married to François Hollande's office manager, said even before she was fired that she would soon no longer play a role. It may have played a role that it sought to bring the levies on diesel fuel, which are much lower in France than on petrol, in line with those on petrol in order to improve air quality.

Web links

Commons : Delphine Batho  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hollande a tenté de convaincre Batho de revenir sur ses critiques . French. In: Le Monde of July 2, 2013. Online at lemonde.fr, accessed on July 2, 2013.
  2. ↑ www.elysee.fr: Communiqué de la Présidence de la République ( Memento of August 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Rent too low: French minister has to vacate social housing . In: Der Spiegel from May 18, 2012 (accessed on June 3, 2012)
  4. ↑ France: Minister has to leave social housing . In: Frankfurter Rundschau of May 18, 2012 (page accessed on June 3, 2012)
  5. ^ Delphine Batho annonce qu'elle quitte son logement du parc social . In: Le Monde, May 18, 2012 (accessed on June 3, 2012)
  6. ↑ Delphine Batho va quitter son logement social . In: Le Figaro from May 18, 2012 (accessed on June 3, 2012)
  7. ↑ Sharp criticism of the French government: Hollande's ex-minister accounts. tagesschau.de, July 4, 2013, archived from the original on July 7, 2013 ; Retrieved July 4, 2013 .
  8. ↑ http://www.france2.fr/emission/cash-investigation/diffusion-du-25-09-2013-22h35
personal data
SURNAME Batho, dolphins
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French politician (PS), member of the National Assembly
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris