Najat Vallaud-Belkacem

Najat Vallaud-Belkacem (2012)

Najat Vallaud-Belkacem (born October 4, 1977 in Beni Chiker , Morocco ) is a French politician of the Parti Socialiste (PS). From August 2014 to May 2017 she was Minister for National Education, Higher Education and Research . Before that, she was Minister for Women's Rights and Government Spokeswoman from May 2012 and Minister for Women's Rights, City, Youth and Sport from April 2, 2014.

Life

Najat Vallaud-Belkacem (2007)

Najat Vallaud-Belkacem immigrated to France in 1982 with her sister and mother to live with their Moroccan father, a construction worker. After attending school, she studied public law and graduated with a licentiate . She completed postgraduate studies at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris with a diploma.

From 2000 to 2002 she worked as a lawyer in a law firm approved by the Conseil d'État in Paris and then Parliamentary Assistant to Béatrice Marre , who was a member of the National Assembly for the Oise 2 constituency from 1997 to 2002 (11th legislature) .

In 2003 she moved to the office of Senator Gérard Collomb , who is also mayor of Lyon , and was responsible for grassroots democracy, the fight against discrimination, the promotion of civil rights, employment and housing subsidies until 2008. In 2004 she was elected as a PS candidate for a member of the regional council of the Rhône-Alpes region and remained so until 2008. Her political career began.

In 2005 she also became a member of the National Council and in 2008 a member of the bureau national , the top management body of the Parti Socialiste.

In 2008 she became Vice Mayor of Lyon and as such represented Mayor Gérard Collomb at major events, associations and youth until 2012.

In March 2008 she was elected a member of the General Council of the Rhône department ; the term of office was six years. From 2008 to 2013 she was also a member of the Council of the Communauté urbaine de Lyon . In 2010 she also took over a professorship at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris , where she taught until 2012.

Vallaud-Belkacem was François Hollande's campaign spokesperson for 2011/12 . After Hollande's election as president and after the appointment of Jean-Marc Ayrault as prime minister, she was appointed minister for women's rights on May 17, 2012, as well as government spokeswoman in his cabinet . She remained in this position in the Ayrault II cabinet when the new government was formed after the parliamentary elections in 2012 . She was the youngest minister to date during Hollande's presidency. When the Valls I cabinet was formed in April 2014, her area of ​​responsibility was expanded to include cities, youth and sport; the role of government spokesman went to Stéphane Le Foll . In the Valls II cabinet from the end of August 2014 she took over the Ministry of Education, Universities and Research; she was the first woman in France in this office. She kept this position in the Cazeneuve cabinet . His term of office ended on May 15, 2017; in the Philippe cabinet (under the new President Emmanuel Macron ) there is a Minister for Education and a Minister for Higher Education, Research and Innovation .

Vallaud-Belkacem ran for a seat in the elections to the National Assembly in Villeurbanne in June 2017 . In the first round on June 11, 2017, it received 16.54% of the votes cast; the REM candidate received 36.69%. You lost the runoff election.

Political positions

Vallaud-Belkacem is a major advocate of stricter laws against prostitution . In particular, as the minister responsible, she operated a law to punish the clients of prostitutes . In June 2012, she declared the French government's position on prostitution.

"La question n'est pas de savoir si nous voulons abolir la prostitution - la réponse est oui - mais de nous donner les moyens de le faire"

"It's not about the question of whether we want to abolish prostitution - the answer to this is yes - but about giving us the means to make this possible"

- Najat Vallaud-Belkacem : Journal du Dimanche . June 2012

Your school reform planned for the beginning of 2016 , u. a. the reform of foreign language teaching has been sharply criticized by parents, teachers and French intellectuals. Vallaud-Belkacem is committed to making the middle school a “haven of equality”. Within the framework of this policy, Latin and ancient Greek classes as well as intensive German and English classes should lose priority because these classes are closed elitist and more for the wealthy.

In elementary schools, biological gender differences should also be called into question under the heading “The ABC of Equal Rights”. In general, she advocates a softening of traditional ideas in family policy. Among other things, she called for a special tax break for families with children to be abolished or for the sexual orientation of historical personalities to be emphasized in school books, because “school books keep silent about historical personalities whether they were lesbian, gay, bisexual or trans. That has to change. ”As a result of these political concepts, she came under fire from conservative politicians and the media. The magazine“ Valeurs actuelles ” dubbed her“ Minister of Education ”, and for Hervé Mariton she even gave her a“ pink Khmer ”(see red Khmer ).

The declared aim of the reform was to “ adapt to the German system ”.

Publications

• Pluralité visible et égalités des opportunités , 2010
• Réagissez! Répondre au FN de A à Z , 2011
• Raison de plus , 2012
• Le mémorandum de Najat Vallaud-Belkacem à son successeur (May 2017, online )

Web links

Commons : Najat Vallaud-Belkacem  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Najat Vallaud-Belkacem. Official website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ SZ, 18./19. April 2015, p. 4.
2. ↑ French Deuxième circonscription de l'Oise
3. ↑ in what was then the constituency of Lyon XIII in the fr: Élections cantonales françaises de 2008
4. ↑ Companions and young high-flyers. In: sueddeutsche.de . May 16, 2012, accessed December 28, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Sascha Lehnartz: The new cabinet is a signal to the left. The world . 26 August 2014.
6. ↑ nvb2017.fr ( Memento of July 4, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
7. ↑ elections.interieur.gouv.fr
8. ↑ Qui est Bruno Bonnell, le macroniste qui a battu Najat Vallaud-Belkacem à Villeurbanne?
9. ^ Anne-Laure Barret: Vallaud-Belkacem: “Je souhaite que la prostitution disparaisse” ( Memento from April 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) In: Le Journal du Dimanche . June 24, 2012 (French)
10. ↑ Corina Friedli: “The goal is a society without prostitution” In: Tages-Anzeiger February 25, 2013 (interview)
11. ^ Michaela Wiegel : German or Ghetto . In: FAZ . April 30, 2015, p. 3 ( online ).
12. ↑ ^{a b} Freedom, Equality, Sisterhood . In: FAZ.net . May 30, 2015 ( online ).
13. ↑ Arte ( Memento from September 17, 2016 in the web archive archive.today ) Arte Journal Junior , from September 2, 2016, 7:35 a.m., 6 min.