Delphine Batho
Delphine Batho ( born March 23, 1973 in Paris ) is a French politician of the Parti Socialiste (PS). She was until July 2, 2013 Minister for Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy in the cabinet of Prime Minister Jean -Marc Ayrault. She was released on 2 July 2013 as the Minister of the Environment, because she had publicly criticized the austerity of the incumbent government Ayrault and above all the budget cuts in the Ministry of Environment.
Life
Commitment against discrimination and for student rights
Delphine Batho, daughter of the famous French photographer John and Claude Batho, engaged influenced by the death of artists like Daniel Balavoine, Coluche and Pierre Desproges already as a student of the Lycée Henri IV for the rights of students. Her classmates included the future journalist and writer Mazarine Pingeot, an illegitimate daughter of François Mitterrand. In 1988, she joined as a fifteen- year-old human rights organization SOS Racisme and the student organization Fédération indépendante et démocratique lycéenne ( FIDL ), which she was president between 1990 and 1992.
Batho, which from 1992 to 1998 was vice president of SOS Racisme thereafter, in 1994, member of the Parti Socialiste and joined there the guided by Jean -Luc Mélenchon and Julien Dray left wing of the party at, for they dealt with issues of internal and national security. In 2000 she became a member of the National Bureau of PS and rose to the top leadership of the party. In addition, it was between 2003 and 2008 National Secretary of the Parti Socialiste for security issues.
Deputies, Deputy Minister and Minister
On June 17, 2007 their choice for deputies of the National Assembly, in which Delphine Batho has since ensued the constituency Deux-Sèvres II represents. Its mandate has been dormant since its entry into the government on 17 May 2012.
After the election of François Hollande as President and the appointment of Jean -Marc Ayrault as Prime Minister, she was appointed by that on May 17, 2012 Assistant Secretary of State in the Ministry of Justice in his cabinet and as such was Justice Minister Christiane Taubira assumed.
As a minister, she drew up the first small affair in the new government: Shortly after her appointment she moved out of an inhabited from her council flat after it already came for months to criticism, since the rent for this apartment by about 30 percent under the Paris lay rents for apartments of such variables.
When the formation of the Cabinet after the parliamentary election in 2012 Batho sustainable development and energy became the Minister for the Environment, appointed. As part of the austerity policy of the French government their ministry a seven percent budget cut was enacted, which they publicly criticized. Then she was released on July 2, 2013. Was succeeded by Philippe Martin. In a subsequent press conference, she went with the government, the style of her dismissal and, indirectly, with President François Hollande judge harshly and expressed the belief that their dismissal was carried out only under pressure from certain economic circles. In particular, the head of the company, who is married to the chief of staff of François Hollande, 've said before their release that they will soon no longer play a role. A role may have played that they strove, taxes on diesel fuel, which are much lower in France than on gasoline, those match that of gasoline to improve air quality.