25 Facts About Malek Boutih

Malek Boutih previously was the Socialist Party's National Secretary for Social Issues from 2003 to 2008.

Malek Boutih has had a long association with SOS Racisme, a civil rights organisation with close ties to the Socialist Party.

Malek Boutih joined in 1984 while a student at the University of Nanterre and served as vice president from 1985 to 1992 and as president from 1999 to 2003.

Malek Boutih was born in a clinic in the wealthy neighbourhood of Neuilly-sur-Seine, although his family did not live there.

Malek Boutih later chose to return to Neuilly-sur-Seine to attend La Folie-Saint-James high school.

Malek Boutih's father was an FLN sympathiser and after independence, his parents went to France seeking work.

Malek Boutih's father worked in the building industry and his mother as a cleaner.

Malek Boutih endured multiple operations until the age of 12 years.

Malek Boutih was editor-in-chief of the newspaper Pote a Pote for several years.

Malek Boutih takes a position against separatism, ghetto mentality and positive discrimination.

Malek Boutih refused to support violence as being the only response to marginalisation and preferred political, trade-union and community actions.

Malek Boutih had responsibility for immigration, the fight against racism, AIDS and drug addiction.

Malek Boutih wrote a report on immigration, Une nouvelle politique de l'immigration, called for by the national leadership of the party to define an official line on the subject.

Malek Boutih's goal was to convince the public that immigration was an essential contribution to France when it was properly controlled and organised.

Malek Boutih declared himself in favour of quotas in line with a strategy of codevelopment creating a legal stream of immigration and regulating flows of migrants.

Malek Boutih was not reappointed to the National Secretariat of the party in December 2008 and was summoned on 25 January 2009 by Pouria Amirshahi to clarify his attitude after his criticisms of the party's plan for the financial crisis and his numerous accolades of Nicolas Sarkozy.

Malek Boutih was chosen as candidate for the Charente's 4th constituency in the 2007 Legislative elections on 1 July 2006 at the national congress of the Socialist Party.

Malek Boutih singled out the First Secretary Francois Hollande, accusing him of "throwing him to the wolves".

Malek Boutih was chosen as a candidate in Essonne's 10th constituency following a vote of party members.

Malek Boutih began his campaign using the words and images of Jean-Luc Melenchon and in his campaign materials, despite Melenchon supporting Francois Delapierre, the candidate for the Left Front in the same constituency.

Warmly welcomed by members of the opposition, but more discretely by the Socialist majority, this report was criticised especially for its sources, such as Frigid Barjot and for the prominence granted to Pierre Bellanger, founder and CEO of radio station Skyrock where Malek Boutih worked as Manager of Institutional Relations.

In between the two rounds of the Socialist Party Primary to select a Presidential candidate, Malek Boutih vehemently attacked Benoit Hamon maintaining that he would be "in harmony with an Islamo-Leftist fringe [to whom] he would make a discreet electoral appeal" and branded him the candidate for Indigenes de la Republique.

Malek Boutih is an administrator of the College des personnalites qualifiees du Paris Saint-Germain.

Malek Boutih is Manager of Institutional Relations at the radio station Skyrock.

Malek Boutih received the medal of a knight of the National Order of Merit in 2001.