Benoît Hamon

Benoît Hamon ( born June 26, 1967 in Saint -Renan, Finistère department ) is a French politician of the Parti Socialiste (PS ), which from 2004 to 2009 Member of the European Parliament and since May 2012 Assistant Minister for Social and Solidarity Economy in the Ministry is of Economy, Finance and Foreign Trade in the Cabinet of Prime Minister Jean -Marc Ayrault.

Life

Study and career

Hamon, son of a secretary and an engineer of the State Naval Shipyard Direction des Constructions Navales (DCN ) in Brest, lived with his parents between 1978 and 1980 at Marist Fathers in Dakar, where he received a primary education shaped by Catholicism. After the divorce of his parents, he returned to France and grew up in Brittany. After attending school, he completed a study of history at the University of West Brittany and engaged during this time in 1986 against Alain Devaquet, the then Assistant Minister for Higher Education and Research in the cabinet of Prime Minister Jacques Chirac, planned university reform.

After graduating Hamon 1991 Parliamentary assistant to Pierre Brana, of the Gironde department represented for the Parti Socialiste as a deputy in the National Assembly. In 1993 he was among the founders of the Mouvement des Jeunes Socialistes ( MJS ), the youth wing of PS, and was up to his replacement by Régis Juanico in 1995 its first president. At the same time he founded in 1993 with Jean- Patrick Gille Nouvelle Gauche, a flow within the PS.

Subsequently, he was between 1995 and 1997 youth policy adviser to the first secretary of the PS, Lionel Jospin, before he followed until 1998, Technical Adviser for Youth Employment and between 1998 and 2000 political adviser in the Minister for Employment and Solidarity, Martine Aubry office was. Then he was from 2001 to 2004 director of strategic planning at the market research firm Ipsos.

MEP

At the same time in 2001 he was a member of the Municipal Council of Brétigny -sur -Orge, a small town in the department of Essonne, and this was one until 2008. In October 2002 he founded together with Julien Dray, Arnaud Montebourg, Christian Paul and Vincent Peillon with the Nouveau Parti Socialiste (NPS ), a new group within the PS.

In the European elections of 2004 Hamon, who belongs to a member of the National Office and the ultimate governing body of the Parti Socialiste, was elected in the constituency of West - France as a member of the 6th European Parliament, where he served until the end of the legislature in 2009. During his membership in the European Parliament until July 2009 he was deputy of September 2004, Chairman of the Delegation for relations with the United States and also member of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs.

After the Congress of PS at Le Mans in November 2005, however, there was fracture of the NPS, on the one hand because of the adopted party program, on the other, but also because of the candidates question for the presidential election of 2007. During Montebourg and Peillon entered for Ségolène Royal, located Hamon said in favor of Laurent Fabius. At this congress he was appointed at the same time to the National Secretary of the Party of European Affairs.

Candidacy for the party chairmanship in 2008

At the party congress in July 2008 in Reims, he published Un Monde d' Avance a new flow within the party, which unites several existing groups within the party and compass and the politicians as Henri Emmanuelli and Pascal Cherki belong.

In the primary election of the first secretary of the PS, which immediately followed the Congress of Reims, Martine Aubry, Benoît Hamon and Ségolène Royal competed. The acting first secretary François Hollande declared in advance of the Congress not to run again for the office, the favorite according to polls Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoë renounced his candidacy and called for the election of Martine Aubry. The first round of voting on 20 November 2008 Ségolène Royal won 42.9 percent of the vote against Martine Aubry ( 34.5 percent) and Benoît Hamon ( 22.6 percent).

For the second ballot the following day Hamon called for the election of Aubry. The first result of this ballot saw Martine Aubry as the winner by 42 votes ahead of Royal ( 50.02 to 49.98 percent).

Spokesman of the PS and Assistant Minister

In December 2008 he was appointed by Martine Aubry, the new first secretary of the PS, the press secretary of the party and has held his position as successor by Julien Dray since then. In the regional elections in March 2010 Hamon was also elected a member of the Regional Council of Ile- de -France region and is one of this since then.

After the election of François Hollande as President and the appointment of Jean -Marc Ayrault as Prime Minister, he was appointed from this May 17, 2012 as Assistant Minister for Social and Solidarity Economy in the cabinet and as such the Minister of Economy, Finance and Foreign Trade Pierre Moscovici assumed.

A few days prior to his appointment as Assistant Minister, he criticized a party spokesman nor Chancellor Angela Merkel before the visit to Germany Hollande because of their stance on European fiscal pact with the words, " Merkel can not alone decide the fate of Europe in the sense of German economic interests. We have not chosen so that there is an EU President named Angela Merkel, who alone decides the fate of all others. This fiscal pact installed a strict austerity. These austerity measures have led to the failure of Greece and now is spreading the crisis in Spain, in Portugal, in the whole of Europe. France therefore throbbing for a renegotiation of the fiscal pact for more fiscal discipline, so that the economy is on growth back on track. "