President Francois Hollande Name Marisol Touraine Role French Politician | Nationality French Political party Socialist Party Siblings Philippe Touraine | |
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Prime Minister Jean-Marc AyraultManuel Valls Born 7 March 1959 (age 65) Paris, France ( 1959-03-07 ) Alma mater Ecole Normale Superieure Spouse Michel Reveyrand de Menthon Parents Alain Touraine, Adriana Arenas Pizarro Similar People Alain Touraine, Christiane Taubira, Najat Vallaud‑Belkacem, Michel Sapin, Manuel Valls Profiles | ||
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Marisol Touraine ([ma.ʁi.sɔl tu.ʁɛn]; born 7 March 1959) is a French politician. She serves as Minister of Social Affairs and Health under Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault, Prime Minister Manuel Valls, and under Prime Minister Bernard Cazeneuve.
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- Marisol Touraine La France va mieux quelle ne le pense elle mme
- Early life
- Political career
- Other posts
- Personal life
- References
Marisol Touraine : "La France va mieux qu'elle ne le pense elle-même"
Early life
Touraine was born on 7 March 1959 in Paris. She graduated from the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris. She studied at the École Normale Supérieure, where she specialised in economic and social issues. She also attended Harvard University but did not receive a degree. She is fluent in Spanish.
Political career
She served as a member of the National Assembly of France for Indre-et-Loire (3rd constituency) from 1997 to 2002 for the Socialiste, radical, citoyen et divers gauche political party. She was defeated in the second round in 2002 by Jean-Jacques Descamps (UMP). She regained the district in June 2007 with a small majority (50.22%), and served until 2012.
She has been counselor general for Indre-et-Loire since 2001. She served as Vice-President of the General Council of Indre-et-Loire from 2008 to 2011, and as its President from 2011 to 2012, when she resigned. She has served as General councillor of Indre-et-Loire since 1998, having been re-elected in 2004 and in 2011.
On 16 May 2012, Touraine was named by Prime Minister of France Jean-Marc Ayrault as Minister of Health and Social Affairs. The designation was accepted by President of France François Hollande, in line with tradition.
In October 2012, Touraine announced that trial centres could open in 2012 in France for drug addicts to safely inject their own drugs. This measure has been met with criticism coming from both the opposition and members of the majority. She entered into negotiations with doctors and health insurance professional organisations to limit the prices of medical assistance.
Other posts
In 2009, she belonged to the "Future of Health Club" (Club Avenir de la santé), a lobby group funded by GlaxoSmithKline, the world's No. 7 of pharmecetics products, producing amongst other things, nicotine patches.
Personal life
She is the daughter of French sociologist Alain Touraine and Chilean academic Adriana Arenas Pizarro (d. 1990). She has a brother, Philippe, who is professor of endocrinology. She is also first cousin of Alberto Arenas, Chile's Budget Director during Michelle Bachelet's presidency.
She is married to diplomat Michel Reveyrand de Menthon, who is currently French ambassador to Chad. She is a mother of three.
In September 2013, Touraine's elder son was sentenced to three years' imprisonment for extortion and sequestration.