Daniel Vaillant
OfficeMinister of the Interior
Term start29 August 2000
Term end6 May 2002
PresidentJacques Chirac
Prime ministerLionel Jospin
PredecessorJean-Pierre Chevènement
SuccessorNicolas Sarkozy
Office 2Minister for the Relation with the Parliament
Term start 24 June 1997
Term end 229 August 2002
President 2Jacques Chirac
Prime minister 2Lionel Jospin
Predecessor 2Roger Romani
Successor 2Jean-Jack Queyranne
Office 3Mayor of the 18th arrondissement of Paris
Term start 31995
Term end 32014
Predecessor 3Roger Chinaud
Successor 3Éric Lejoindre
Office 4Member of the National Assembly
for Paris's 19th constituency
Term start 41988
Term end 41993
Predecessor 4Proportional Representation per department
Successor 4Jean-Pierre Pierre-Bloch
Office 5Member of the National Assembly
for Paris's 19th constituency
Term start 51994
Term end 51997
Predecessor 5Jean-Pierre Pierre-Bloch
Successor 5Daniel Marcovitch
Office 6Member of the National Assembly
for Paris's 19th constituency
Term start 619 June 2002
Term end 62012
Predecessor 6Daniel Marcovitch
Successor 6Constituency abolished – same area now in Paris's 17th constituency
Office 7Member of the National Assembly
for Paris's 17th constituency
Term start 72012
Term end 721 June 2017
Predecessor 7Annick Lepetit (different area of Paris, moved to Paris's 3rd constituency in redistricting)
Successor 7Danièle Obono
Birth date19 July 1949 (age 77)
Birth placeLormes, France
PartySocialist Party

Daniel Vaillant (born 19 July 1949) is a French Socialist politician.

Biography

Close to Lionel Jospin, Vaillant held several ministerial portfolios in his cabinets: Minister of the Relations with Parliament from 1997 to 2000 and Interior Minister from 2000 to 2002. He also supported Jospin as candidate for the Socialist Party in the 2007 presidential election;[1] a candidacy which eventually did not materialize.

As of 2009, he is mayor of the 18th arrondissement of Paris (first election 1995) and a member of the National Assembly.

In October 2009, he proposed to decriminalize the personal use of cannabis through control of production and import, as is the case with alcohol.[2]

Published work

  • C'est à ma gauche, Éditions Plon, 2003 (with a foreword by Lionel Jospin « La Sécurité, priorité à gauche »)
  • PS : 40 ans d'histoire(s). Du congrès d'Épinay à nos jours, Éditions L'Archipel, 2011, 414 p. ISBN 978-2-8098-0481-2

References

  1. ^ Paul Quinio, Jospin se retire de sa retraite politique, Libération, 29 June 2006.
  2. ^ (in French) Daniel Vaillant (PS) propose une légalisation contrôlée du cannabis, Le Monde, 9 October 2009