Delphine Batho
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Delphine Batho 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
Ségolène Royal
Marie-Ségolène Royal , known as Ségolène Royal, is a French politician. She is the president of the Poitou-Charentes Regional Council, a former member of the National Assembly, a former government minister, and a prominent member of the French Socialist Party...

. 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
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

. 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
Lionel Jospin
Lionel Jospin is a French politician, who served as Prime Minister of France from 1997 to 2002.Jospin was the Socialist Party candidate for President of France in the elections of 1995 and 2002. He was narrowly defeated in the final runoff election by Jacques Chirac in 1995...

, 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
SOS Racisme
SOS Racisme is a French anti-racist NGO, founded in 1984. Its Spanish counterpart, SOS Racismo, is based in Barcelona.-Activities:SOS Racisme's main goal is to fight racial discrimination. Often the plaintiff in discrimination trials, the organization also offers support to immigrants and racial...

 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, became vice-president.

The Socialist Party

Batho joined the Parti Socialiste
Socialist Party (France)
The Socialist Party is a social-democratic political party in France and the largest party of the French centre-left. It is one of the two major contemporary political parties in France, along with the center-right Union for a Popular Movement...

 (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
Julien Dray
Julien Dray was born on 5 March 1955 in Oran, French Algeria. He is currently a member of the National Assembly of France. He represents the Essonne department, and is a member of the Socialiste, radical, citoyen et divers gauche.-Works:...

. 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
Île-de-France (région)
Île-de-France is the wealthiest and most populated of the twenty-two administrative regions of France, composed mostly of the Paris metropolitan area....

, 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
Ségolène Royal
Marie-Ségolène Royal , known as Ségolène Royal, is a French politician. She is the president of the Poitou-Charentes Regional Council, a former member of the National Assembly, a former government minister, and a prominent member of the French Socialist Party...

, the PS candidate for the French Presidential Elections of 2007, who incorporated them into her "just order".

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
Éric Gauthier
Éric Gauthier is a quebecois author who was born in 1975 in Rouyn-Noranda, in the Abitibi region of Quebec.- Biography :After a childhood spent in Abitibi, and computer science studies in Ottawa, Éric Gauthier moved to Montreal...

, 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.

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