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
2000–2002
PresidentJacques Chirac
Prime MinisterLionel Jospin
Preceded byJean-Pierre Chevènement
Succeeded byNicolas Sarkozy
Mayor of the 18th arrondissement of Paris
In office
1995–2014
Preceded byRoger Chinaud
Succeeded byÉric Lejoindre
Personal details
Born (1949-07-19) 19 July 1949
Lormes, France
NationalityFrench
Political partySocialist 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
Political offices
Preceded by
Jean-Pierre Chevènement		 Minister of the Interior
2000–2002		 Succeeded by
Nicolas Sarkozy
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