Daniel Vaillant

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

Daniel Vaillant
Daniel Vaillant in 2006
Minister of the Interior
In office 29 August 2000 – 6 May 2002
President	Jacques Chirac
Prime Minister	Lionel Jospin
Preceded by	Jean-Pierre Chevènement
Succeeded by	Nicolas Sarkozy
Minister for the Relation with the Parliament
In office 4 June 1997 – 29 August 2002
President	Jacques Chirac
Prime Minister	Lionel Jospin
Preceded by	Roger Romani
Succeeded by	Jean-Jack Queyranne
Mayor of the 18th arrondissement of Paris
In office 1995–2014
Preceded by	Roger Chinaud
Succeeded by	Éric Lejoindre
Member of the National Assembly for Paris's 17th constituency
In office 19 June 2002 – 21 June 2017
Preceded by	Daniel Marcovitch
Succeeded by	Danièle Obono
Personal details
Born	19 July 1949 Lormes, France
Nationality	French
Political party	Socialist Party

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

External links

• Official biography on the French Parliament website.