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Constituency
  
Combs-la-Ville

Role
  
Politician

Constituency
  
France

Party
  
Socialist Party

Residence
  
France

Name
  
Alain Vivien


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Born
  
August 20, 1938 (age 85) Melun, France (
1938-08-20
)

Political party
  
French Socialist Party

Alain Vivien (born August 20, 1938 in Melun, Seine-et-Marne) is a French Socialist Party (PS) politician, best known for chairing (from 1998 to 2002) the French Mission Interministérielle pour la Lutte contre les Sectes, MILS, a ministerial organism designed to observe the activities of various religious organizations defined as "Sectes" (cults).

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Early career

He was mayor of Combs-la-Ville in 1977-1983 and 1989-1992. In 1983 he was elected to the French National Assembly for Seine-et-Marne as a PS candidate. The author of a report on cults requested by Prime Minister Pierre Mauroy in 1982, he was Secretary of State under Édith Cresson in 1991-1992 From 1997 to 1998 he was president of the Centre contre les manipulations mentales

Awards

  • Leipzig Human Rights Award, May 11, 2002
  • References

    Alain Vivien Wikipedia