Delphine Batho

Delphine Batho

Delphine Batho (born March 23, 1973) is a member of the National Assembly of France. She represents the Deux-Sèvres' 2nd constituency, and is a member of the Socialiste, radical, citoyen et divers gauche. She is currently a member of the second district of Deux-Sèvres, succeeding Ségolène Royal. Her deputy is Jean-Luc Drapeau.

President of the FIDL

Delphine Batho began her militant activity in the student union when she attended the lycée Henri IV (French: Henry IV school) in Paris. She became president of the FIDL in 1990. She became known for her activism for students' rights and the means to study. After nearly two months of strikes, the movement obtained from Lionel Jospin, the Minister for Education, the sum of 4.5 million francs to renovate high schools and certain student rights. In 1992 she left high school, and thus the FIDL, to study history.

Vice-President of SOS Racisme

She joined SOS Racisme and in September 1992 the team was renewed. Fodé Sylla, aged 29, became president and Delphine Batho, a representative of the "second generation SOS" in the words of le Monde,^[1] became vice-president.

The Socialist Party

Batho joined the Parti Socialiste (French: Socialist Party; abbreviated "PS" hereinafter) in the mid-1990s as a militant in the Grigny (Essonne) section. She participates in the current Socialist Left with Julien Dray. At the Congress of Grenoble she returned to the national office of the PS. In 2003 during the breakup of the socialist left, she stayed loyal to Dray. Dray employed her at the Regional Council of the Île-de-France, responsible for security matters. In 2004 she became National Secretary of the PS in charge of security, where she defended the policy of preventative sanctions.

Her thoughts on security matters were taken into account by Ségolène Royal, the PS candidate for the French Presidential Elections of 2007, who incorporated them into her "just order".^[2]

Candidacy in Deux-Sèvres and election to the Second Circuit

For parliamentary elections, Delphine Batho was dropped from the Ile de France to become a candidate in Ségolène Royal's riding in the south of Deux-Sèvres. At the PS internal inauguration, she received 54.75% of the vote against 45.25% for Eric Gauthier, former deputy for Ms Royal.

In the first round of parliamentary elections on 10 June 2007, she won 20,690 votes or 44.55% of the vote. In the second round, she faced the UMP candidate Jean-Pierre Griffault, who received 16 131 votes or 34.73% of the vote in the first round. In the second round, Griffault won 42.58% of votes (19,669 votes), and Batho won the election with 57.42% of votes (26,524 votes), succeeding Ségolène Royal in the position of member of the second district of Deux-Sèvres.

Delphine Batho is a member of the Never without my consent collective.

References

Translator's note: These are in French.

1. ^ Bernard Philippe, Passage de témoin chez les « potes »
2. ^ Cf. la séries d'articles de Libération : Les 30 visages du réseau Ségolène Royal, dans la rubrique Les Nouvelles un article de Jacky Durant intitulé Delphine Batho, paru dans l'édition du 2 mai 2007, page 13.

This article incorporates information from the equivalent article on the French Wikipedia.

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