17 Facts About Delphine Batho

Delphine Batho is a former Minister of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy.

Delphine Batho was re-elected as a member of parliament in the 2022 legislative elections.

Delphine Batho began her militant activity in the high-school students' union FIDL while attending the Lycee Henri-IV in Paris.

Delphine Batho was elected president of the union in 1990 and became well known for her activism on behalf of students' rights and for the means to study.

Delphine Batho joined the anti-racist movement SOS Racisme and when its leadership was renewed in September 1992 Fode Sylla, aged 29, became president and Delphine Batho, a representative of the "second generation SOS" in the words of Le Monde, was elected vice-president.

Delphine Batho joined the French Socialist Party in the mid-1990s as a militant in the Grigny section.

Delphine Batho participated, together with Julien Dray, in the party's Socialist Left tendency.

Delphine Batho declared her intention to be a candidate for the leadership of the Socialist Party at the Aubervilliers Congress in 2018, but her application was ultimately rejected due to a lack of support.

Delphine Batho announced in an interview published on 2 May 2018 that she was quitting the Socialist Party to become president of Ecology Generation, and would quit the New Left group in the National Assembly.

Delphine Batho served as Royal's spokesperson in 2009 for the 2011 French Socialist Party presidential primary, alongside Najat Vallaud-Belkacem.

On 16 May 2012, Delphine Batho was appointed Minister Delegate for Justice.

In 2018, Delphine Batho initiated the amendment to ban glyphosate with a term in 2021; his proposal is massively rejected, and she denounces the acts of lobbyists in the National Assembly.

On 2 May 2018, Delphine Batho announced that she would be leaving the Socialist Party and that she will take over the helm of Ecology Generation in September, succeeding Yves Pietrasanta.

Delphine Batho left the New Left group in the National Assembly and joined the non-registered.

Delphine Batho is elected new president of Ecology Generation on 10 September 2018.

In May 2020, Delphine Batho joined and became vice-president of the new group Ecology Democracy Solidarity, essentially composed of former members of the group La Republique en Marche; however, the group was dissolved later that year.

Delphine Batho pleads for an alliance of environmentalists for the 2022 presidential election.