Marisol Touraine

Marisol Touraine (2015)

Marisol Touraine (born March 7, 1959 in Paris ) is a French politician of the Parti Socialiste (PS) and was Minister for Social Affairs and Health from 2012 to 2017, at times also for women's rights. She has been the president of the aid organization Unitaid since 2019 .

Life

Studies, work and family

Marisol Touraine, daughter of the sociologist Alain Touraine and the Chile- born researcher Adriana Arenas Pizarro, grew up in Paris. After finishing school, she studied at the École normal supérieure de jeunes filles in Sèvres and received the agrégation (license to teach higher schools) in economics and social sciences . She then completed a degree at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris (Sciences Po) and postgraduate studies at Harvard University (the latter without a degree).

She then worked for the Secrétariat général de la défense et de la sécurité nationale (SGDN), an authority subordinate to the Prime Minister for matters of defense and security policy. Between 1988 and 1991 she was then Prime Minister Michel Rocard's advisor on geostrategic issues. In 1991 she was appointed civil servant at the Conseil d'État (Council of State).

Marisol Touraine is married to the diplomat Michel Reveyrand de Menton , who was ambassador to Mali from 2006 to 2010 and is accredited as ambassador to Chad from 2010 to 2013 . You have three children.

Member of Parliament and President of the General Council

Touraine in 2007

Her actual political career began when she was first elected member of the National Assembly in 1997 as a candidate for the Parti Socialiste . There she represented the constituency of Indre-et-Loire III until she was defeated in the 2002 elections against the former constituency holder and candidate of the Union pour un mouvement populaire (UMP), Jean-Jacques Descamps . At the same time, in 1997 she was appointed National Secretary of the PS for Solidarity and Social Security by First Secretary François Hollande . In 1998 she was elected as a member of the General Council of the Indre-et-Loire department for the canton of Montbazon , to which she has belonged ever since. Touraine has been chairwoman of the left-wing , pro-European think tank À gauche, en Europe within the PS since 2006 .

In the 2007 parliamentary elections , she managed to beat Descamps with a narrow majority and 50.22 percent of the vote, so that she was his successor again as a representative of the constituency of Indre-et-Loire III in the National Assembly. At the same time, she was Second Vice-President of the General Council of the Indre-et-Loire Department from 2008 to 2011.

She was elected President of the General Council of the Indre-et-Loire Department in 2011 . In the run-up to the 2012 presidential election , Touraine initially supported Dominique Strauss-Kahn's candidacy . After he refused to apply after publicizing rape allegations, she became a supporter of François Hollande . She resigned her parliamentary mandate and her post as President of the General Council after her appointment as Minister in June 2012. However, until 2015 she remained a simple member of the General Council of Indre-et-Loire.

Minister of Social Affairs

Touraine (right) with Loïg Chesnais-Girard and President François Hollande (2011)

After Hollande was elected President and Jean-Marc Ayrault was appointed Prime Minister, she was appointed Minister for Social Affairs and Health in his cabinet on May 17, 2012 and confirmed in office after the parliamentary election ( Ayrault II cabinet ). Within the government, she held sixth place, with three ministers delegates attached to her: Michèle Delaunay for the elderly and dependencies, Dominique Bertinotti for families and Marie-Arlette Carlotti for people with disabilities.

When the Valls I government was appointed in April 2014, her function was only Minister for Social Affairs, which may have been an editorial error. When the government of Valls II was appointed in August 2014, her portfolio was expanded to include Minister for Social Affairs, Health and Women's Rights , and she lost responsibility for women's rights as well as for family and children in the course of a cabinet reshuffle in February 2016 when her previous Secretary of State Laurence Rossignol joined Minister was charged. In her role as Minister of Social Affairs and Health, she was also a member of the Cazeneuve cabinet (from December 2016). With the change of government after the election of Emmanuel Macron as President in May 2017, her term as minister ended.

For the parliamentary elections in June 2017 , Touraine applied again as a PS candidate for the parliamentary mandate in the 3rd constituency of Indre-et-Loire. While the PS was in opposition to the Macron- Philippe government , Touraine described herself as a representative of the Majorité Presidentielle (“majority for the President”). Macron's party La République en Marche then renounced its own candidate in this constituency, while the PS initiated a party expulsion process against Touraine. In the second ballot, Touraine lost 43.4% to Sophie Auconie from the bourgeois UDI .

According to politics

From August 2017 Touraine returned to the Conseil d'État . Since June 2019 she has been president of the aid organization Unitaid , which procures medicines for HIV / AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis at reduced prices.

Publications

• Le Bouleversement du Monde - Géopolitique du XXIe siècle , 1995

Web links

Commons : Marisol Touraine  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Entry on the homepage of the French government
• Entry on the homepage of the National Assembly
• Private homepage

Individual evidence

1. ^ Cabinet in France - companions and young high-flyers . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung of May 16, 2012
2. ^ The decree appointing the ministers names Touraine ministre des Affaires sociales as the official title of the minister (German: Minister for Social Affairs ); in the appointment of secretaries of state , however was located there for the secretaries of state ministre des affaires sociales et de la santé (German: Minister of Social Affairs and Health ) specify how the ministry was also in government Ayrault. Touraine also ran the official government website with the health division. However, there was no official correction of the ministry's title.
3. ^ Fabienne Marcel: Marisol Touraine (PS) battue dans la 3e circo d'Indre-et-Loire, Sophie Auconie (LR-UDI) élue députée. France 3 Center-Val de Loire, June 18, 2017.