1. Claude Bartolone served as Delegate Minister for the City in the government of Prime Minister Lionel Jospin from 1998 to 2002, and he was President of the Seine-Saint-Denis General Council from 2008 to 2012.
12 Facts About Claude Bartolone
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Claude Bartolone was born on 29 July 1951 in Tunis, Tunisia.
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Claude Bartolone's mother was from Malta and his father from Sicily; both his parents were working-class.
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Claude Bartolone was a municipal councillor of Le Pre-Saint-Gervais from 1977 to 1983, and from 1995 to 2008.
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Claude Bartolone served as Deputy Mayor of Le Pre-Saint-Gervais from 1977 to 1983, from June to October 1995, as Mayor from 1995 to 1998, and again as Deputy Mayor from 2001 to 2008.
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Claude Bartolone was municipal councillor of Les Lilas from 1983 to 1989.
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Claude Bartolone served as Seine-Saint-Denis general councillor from 1979 to 1992, and has served again since 2008.
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Claude Bartolone served as a member of the National Assembly for the sixth district, encompassing Seine-Saint-Denis from 1981 to 1998.
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When Martine Aubry took over as leader of the Socialist Party in 2008, Claude Bartolone joined the party's leadership and was put in charge of relations to other Socialist parties internationally.
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From 2012 to 2017, Claude Bartolone served as President of the National Assembly of France.
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Ahead of the Socialist Party's 2012 convention in Toulouse, Claude Bartolone publicly endorsed Jean-Christophe Cambadelis as candidate to succeed Martine Aubry at the party's leadership.
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Claude Bartolone is married, in a second marriage, with Veronique Ragusa, a parliamentary collaborator.